MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Co-Operation in Mental Health Administration

As an effort has been made in Oxford City to coordinate all Mental Health services under the administrative control of the Medical Officer of Health it is thought that it may be of interest to the workers in other areas to hear of the results of this experiment. The coordinating Committee set out with the idea of treating all forms of mental disability as questions of Public Health to be dealt ...

Veterans Health Administration primary care-mental health integration initiative.

Evaluation in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

The evaluation policy of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is described in this article. Three studies are presented that exemplify SAMHSA's evaluations. These include evaluations of a program to prevent substance abuse among pregnant and postpartum women and their infants; a Job Corps treatment enrichment program; and the McKinney program for homeless perso...

Challenges in state mental health policy and administration.

How mental health providers spend their time: a survey of 10 Veterans Health Administration mental health services.

BACKGROUND Allocation of provider time across clinical, administrative, educational, and research activities may influence job satisfaction, productivity, and quality of care, yet we know little about what determines time allocation. AIMS To investigate factors associated with time allocation, we surveyed all mental health providers in one Veterans Health Administration (VHA) network. We hypo...