Quality improvement in behavioral health

This innovative volume presents a cogent case for quality improvement(QI) in behavioral healthcare as ethical practice, solid science, and goodbusiness.

Divided between foundational concepts, key QI tools and methods, andemerging applications, it offers guidelines for raising care standards whileaddressing ongoing issues of treatment validity, staffing and training, costsand funding, and integration with medical systems.

Expert contributors reviewthe implications and potential of QI in diverse areas such as treatment ofentrenched mental disorders, in correctional facilities, and within theprofessional context of the American Psychological Association.

The insights,examples, and strategies featured will increase in value as behavioral healthbecomes more prominent in integrated care and vital to large-scale health goals.Included in the coverage: Behavioral health conditions: direct treatment costs and indirect social costs.< Quality improvement and clinical psychological science.nbsp; Processmapping to improve quality in behavioral health service delivery.nbsp; Checklists for quality improvement and evaluation inbehavioralhealth.nbsp; Creating a quality improvement system for an integrated careprogram: the why, what, and how to measure.nbsp; Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT): improving the outcome ofpsychotherapy one person at a time.Quality Improvement in Behavioral Healthcare gives healthpsychologists, public health professionals, and health administrators areal-world framework for maintaining quality services in a rapidly evolvinghealth landscape.