Editorial Mental Health Services Research: Challenges and Contexts

State-of-the-art challenges for mental health services research.

BACKGROUND: Research-based, state-of-the-art services for people with serious mental disorders would consist of demonstrably effective treatments, organized synergistically, and financed in ways that create incentives to provide such treatment. While research exists in these domains of treatment, organization and financing, this research base contains significant gaps, and what is known frequen...

Challenges in Conducting Family-Centered Mental Health Services Research

In this article, the authors provide an analysis of the challenges facing researchers as they respond to the ideas that guide family-centered services and incorporate these themes into research focused on improving services for children with emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders and their families. The concept of "family-centered services" has emerged only recently as a generally well unde...

Opportunities in mental health services research.

Mental health services in rural India: challenges and prospects

Mental health services in India are neglected area which needs immediate attention from the government, policymakers, and civil society organizations. Despite, National Mental Health Programme since 1982 and National Rural Health Mission, there has been a very little effort so far to provide mental health services in rural areas. With increase in population, changing life-style, unemployment, l...

Finnish challenges and solutions on community mental health services

This keynote paper examines the historical developments in Finland in developing community mental health services. In particular, it describes the development and growth of the ‘clubhouse model’ in the support and management of individuals with mental health and how Finland leads the way in such an approach. The paper describes the relative success of this ‘integrated’ model of care and conside...