Understanding the Behavioral Healthcare Crisis: The Promise of Integrated Care and Diagnostic Reform

by CUMMINGS; NICHOLAS A

• ISBN13: 9780415876438
• ISBN10: 0415876435
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Promise of Integrated Healthcare is a necessary book, edited and contributed to by a great variety of authors from academia, government, and industry. The book takes a bold look at what reforms are needed in healthcare and provides reforms and specific recommendations. Some of the serious concerns about the healthcare system that Cummings, O'Donohue, and contributors address include access problems, safety problems, costs problems, the uninsured, and problems with efficacy. When students, practitioners, researchers, and policy makers finish reading this book they will have not just a greater idea of what problems still exist in healthcare, but, more importantly, a clearer idea of how to tackle them and provide much-needed reform.

Author Biography

Nicholas A. Cummings, PhD, ScD, is distinguished professor at the University of Nevada, Reno and the Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. He is also president of the Cummings Foundation for Behavioral Health and the board chair of the Nicholas Dorothy Cummings Foundation. He is past president of the American Psychological Association. William T. O'Donohue, PhD, is full professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno and has held the Cummings Chair in Mental Healthcare Delivery at this university for several years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment	p. ix
Editors	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Where We Are, How We Got There, and Where We Need to Go: The Promise of Integrated Care	p. 1
Our 50-Minute Hour in the Nanosecond Era. The Need for a Third "E" in Behavioral Healthcare: Efficiency	p. 19
The Financial Dimension of Integrated Behavioral/Primary Care	p. 33
Mental Health Informatics	p. 59
E-health and Telehealth	p. 83
Can Prescribing Psychologists Assist in Providing More Cost-Effective, Quality Mental Healthcare?	p. 129
Diagnostic System Innovations	p. 149
Evidence-Based Treatment	p. 171
The Quality Improvement Agenda in Behavioral Healthcare Reform: Using Science to Reduce Error	p. 203
The Behavioral Health Medical Home	p. 227
Reforms in Professional Education	p. 257
Pay for Performance and Other Innovations in Reimbursement for Behavioral Care Services	p. 279
Trends in Behavioral Healthcare for an Aging America	p. 299
Failure to Serve: The Use of Medications as a First-Line Treatment and Misuse in Behavioral Interventions
Reforms in Treating Children and Families	p. 343
Reforms for Ethnic Minorities and Women	p. 367
Wellness and Prevention: Key Elements in the Next Generation of Behavioral Health Service Delivery Systems	p. 395
Reforms in Veteran and Military Behavioral Health	p. 417
Biofeedback	p. 441
Index	p. 469
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