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Excellent Mental Health Care Is Delivered and Research Is Accelerated. Accelerate research to promote recovery and resilience, and ultimately to cure and prevent mental illnesses. Advance evidence-based practices using dissemination and demonstration projects and create a public–private partnership to guide their implementation.
Logo: SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), www.nrepp.samhsa.gov. In the behavioral health field, there is an ongoing need for researchers, developers, evaluators, and practitioners to share information about what works to improve outcomes among individuals coping with, or at risk for, mental disorders and substance abuse.
A 2006 review of nursing in Scotland recommended a recovery approach as the model for mental health nursing care and intervention. [79] The Mental Health Commission of Ireland reports that its guiding documents place the service user at the core and emphasize an individual's personal journey towards recovery. [80]
Evidence-based practice is the idea that occupational practices ought to be based on scientific evidence.The movement towards evidence-based practices attempts to encourage and, in some instances, require professionals and other decision-makers to pay more attention to evidence to inform their decision-making.
It proposes that in mental health, the factors associated with a psychiatric crisis, or its more enduring consequences, can be diverse as well as cumulative. It states that by appreciating this metaphor, nurses or other helpers will gain a greater understanding of the person's current situation and the inevitability of change.
Typical examples in primary care include diabetes and depression. Often the person managing the registry is a nurse or mental health professional who performs follow-up phone calls and assists the primary care team in following evidence-based protocols. There is often also a consulting psychiatrist who oversees the provision of care in primary ...
Intensive case management may reduce the chance of loss to follow up when compared with standard care for severe mental illness. Data are based on low quality evidence. RR 0.68 (0.58 to 0.79) Low Social functioning; Employment status - not employed at the end of the trial Follow up: by 'long' term
Whole Health Action Management (WHAM) is a peer-led intervention to facilitate self-management to reach whole health goals through peer coaching and support groups. [1] [2] It is a method of using peer support to support healthcare delivery, [3] and to counter high rates of chronic physical health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity among those with behavioral health diagnoses.