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Session
11: Behavorial
and Mental Health
Wednesday, November 14
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Major
Themes to Be Covered
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Concepts
of behavioral and mental health in a modern America have
been changing in response to new pressures on individuals,
changes in families, and better understanding of the service
and treatment of behavioral and mental health models.
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The
prevalence of mental health problems and their impact
on individuals, families and communities.
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What
we know about the risk and protective factors for mental
health and behavioral problems (individual, family, community),
and strategies for preventing mental health problems and
providing options for mental health.
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Behavioral
and mental health systems can marginalize and isolate
families who receive mental health services. Many systems
of care overlook the strengths of family systems in fostering
positive mental health.
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History
of mental health treatment, and how care is currently
organized and paid for.
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Issues
of "least restrictive" alternatives to hospitalization,
integration of services, universal health insurance, and
limited mental health services pose major problems for
families.
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Integrated
community-based services approaches that include prevention
and intervention are needed to minimize the negative labeling
of families within mental and behavioral health systems.
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How
family-centered community building approaches can foster
positive community mental health.
Students
Will Learn
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The
importance, impact and determinants of mental health problems
in communities.
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To
identify barriers to mental health services including
a shortage of community-based services, and the lack of
culturally competent community-based services.
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How
some mental health and substance abuse systems of care
provide fragmented, inadequate support that undermines
the strength of family systems.
- New
and emerging family-centered community-based approaches
to the provision of mental health and behavioral therapy.
Required
Readings
Ettner
SL. 2001. Mental health services and policy issues, In:
RM Andersen, TH Rice, GF Kominski (Eds.), Changing the U.S.
Health Care System. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc.
Merva
M, Fowles R. 2000. Economic outcomes and mental health,
In: R Marshall (Ed.), Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing
Inequality of Wealth and Income in America. New York: ME
Sharpe, Inc.
Surgeon
General's Report on Mental Health. 1999. Introduction and
themes (pp. 3-25). Washington, DC: Department of Health
and Human Services.
Suggested
Readings
Nixon
CT, Heflinger CA. 1996. Families and the Mental Health System
for Children and Adolescents: Policy, Service, and Research.
Sage Publications.
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