Mental Health System Transformation and Evidence Based Practices
This page is intended to be a resource for professionals who want to gain insight and practical information on achieving and maintaining a recovery-oriented health care service system. Professionals are encouraged to use this information to build programs that are customized to the individual's needs, and help people to learn skills that allow them to live in the community.
- Evidence-Based Practices
- System Transformation for Providers
- Associations and Organizations
- Online Journals
- Publications
The following links show Evidence-based Practices information from
- Assertive Community Treatment
- Co-Occurring Disorders: Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment
- Family Psychoeducation
- Illness Management and Recovery
- Supported Employment
- About Recovery
- Proposed Model of Mental Health Recovery and Recovery-Oriented Services (state of Connecticut, specific dimensions of recovery)
- SAMSHA Consensus Statement on Mental Illness Recovery
- SAMHSA Toolkit on Illness Management and Recovery
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- National Association of State Mental Health Directors Organization (state agencies' mental health policy issues)
- The Mental Health Association of Virginia
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- Building Bridges: Mental Health Consumers and Primary Care Representatives in Dialogue
(Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2005)
- Concepts of “Transformation" (National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute, Inc.)
- CMHS Draft Principles of Consumer-Driven Care
- Hallmarks and Features of High-Quality Community-Based Services
- Key Components of Systems Change
- Mental Health System Transformation (United States Department of Health and Human Services, Evidence Based Practices: Shaping Mental Health Services Toward Recovery)
- Practice Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Behavioral Health Care (Connecticut DMHAS, gives insight and practical information on achieving and maintaining a recovery-oriented health care service system in Virginia)
- Promoting Self Direction and Consumer Control in Home and Community-Based Service Systems (ILRU Community Living Partnership, National State-to-State Technical Assistance Center)
- Transforming Behavioral Health Care to Self-Direction (Report of the 2004 Consumer Direction Initiative Summit: Free to Choose)
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- Medscape: Psychiatry and Mental Health
- PLoS Medicine, an open-access journal published by the nonprofit organization, Public Library of Science
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