Book contents
- Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System
- Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System
- Part I The Past
- Part II The Present
- Part III The Future
- 7 A Way Forward
- 8 From Deinstitutionalization to Deprescribing and Beyond
- 9 The Road Ahead
- 10 Recovering US Mental Healthcare
- Index
- References
9 - The Road Ahead
A Call to Action
from Part III - The Future
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2022
- Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System
- Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System
- Part I The Past
- Part II The Present
- Part III The Future
- 7 A Way Forward
- 8 From Deinstitutionalization to Deprescribing and Beyond
- 9 The Road Ahead
- 10 Recovering US Mental Healthcare
- Index
- References
Summary
Access to effective psychosocial treatment for psychosis continues to be elusive in the United States. For years, the literal and figurative costs associated with the diagnosis of schizophrenia have been known, policies to promote improved national mental healthcare have been in place and recommendations for evidence-based treatments have existed. And yet, the implementation and uptake of such policies and recommendations within psychosis treatment have only been moderately successful because clinicians have been overlooked as agents of change. Continuous development and transmission of the latest evidence and practices for psychosocial treatments for psychosis are essential, but so is the support of the individual clinicians who will implement them. The path forward must attack this problem from a number of directions and can follow the recommendations put forth by the President’s New Freedom Commission. We conclude with concrete action steps individual providers can take to facilitate change.
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- Recovering the US Mental Healthcare SystemThe Past, Present, and Future of Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis, pp. 206 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022