More on Evidence Based and Emerging Best Practices
New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services May 9, 2014
As a follow up to yesterday’s EBP list posting, I think it’s important to emphasize that this was a very partial list of both evidence based and promising or emerging best practices. I’ll share some links below that provide more information about hundreds more and that will elaborate on practices ranging from clubhouses to consumer operated services to cognitive behavioral therapy, for examples.
What’s important here, in our view, is that policy makers more clearly understand that we have a diverse array of robust strategies to help people in the greatest need….. and to move them beyond a reductionist focus on what they hear most about, medication and hospitalization and, in terms of this debate, coercion. We want to teach them about all that we’re doing to come to people not come after them.
Healthcare is moving rapidly to getting ‘upstream,’ ahead of avoidable relapses, homelessness, incarcerations, hospitalizations and suffering amongst individuals and their families by providing real time responses that are immediately available to people…that are increasingly mobile, home-based and focused on healing and harm reduction. The same is true of behavioral healthcare and we must be educating policy makers and the public about what’s better and what’s possible.
Here are just some of those links:
http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/Index.aspx
http://www.apa.org/practice/resources/grid/catalog.pdf
http://www.promisingpractices.net/resources_mentalhealth.asp
http://www.dshs.wa.gov/pdf/dbhr/mh/resourceguide/Bestpracreport.pdf
http://www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/pdf/ruralbehavioralmanual05312011.pdf
http://nccc.georgetown.edu/resources/practices.html
http://www.niatx.net/promisingpractices/Search.aspx?SPNID=19
http://www.carf.org/Resources/Newsletters/PromisingPracticesBH/