Explore a model of mental health practice. This is your time to reflect on a model of mental health practice that is implemented using a public health approach that considers all the areas you examined across the activities in this course. What makes a mental health practice effective? What factors must be considered? Your should explore how organizations can be responsive and adaptive to the mental and behavioral health problems of a community as they emerge.
Imagine a public mental health system of the future that is well integrated with a credentialed yet diverse workforce adept at evidence-based practices and relevant to meeting the needs of people with mental illness and substance use disorders.
Be sure your model includes the following:
• A description of the need for mental health practices (Week 1 and 2)An explanation of how practices are be funded including forms of third-party payment (Week 3)
• A consideration of social marketing to the community-at-large to increase public awareness (Week 4)
• An exploration of disparities among diverse populations (Week 5)
• An analysis of the policies and laws that must be considered (Week 6)
• A description of optimal staffing should include nurses, physicians, psychologists, and therapists onsite (and others). What is needed to ensure an integrated system of care (Week 4 & 8)
Please consider the following as you frame your paper:
• How an organization could be designed to be a single mental health agency based upon a public health model.
• How mental health law can lead to the elimination of barriers to access services without the use of coercion.
• How to address behavioral health treatment disparity.
Remember to use the DSM-V definitions for any mental health disorders you may mention.
