ABSTRACT

Understanding the Behavioral Healthcare Crisis is a necessary book, edited and contributed to by a great variety of authors from academia, government, and industry. The book takes a bold look at what reforms are needed in healthcare and provides specific recommendations. Some of the serious concerns about the healthcare system that Cummings, O’Donohue, and their contributors address include access problems, safety problems, costs problems, the uninsured, and problems with efficacy. When students, practitioners, researchers, and policy makers finish reading this book they will have not just a greater idea of what problems still exist in healthcare, but, more importantly, a clearer idea of how to tackle them and provide much-needed reform.

chapter 5|30 pages

E-health and Telehealth

chapter 7|21 pages

Diagnostic System Innovations

chapter 8|31 pages

Evidence-Based Treatment

chapter 10|30 pages

The Behavioral Health Medical Home

chapter 14|15 pages

Failure to Serve

The Use of Medications as a First-Line Treatment and Misuse in Behavioral Interventions

chapter 17|21 pages

Wellness and Prevention

Key Elements in the Next Generation of Behavioral Health Service Delivery Systems

chapter 19|28 pages

Biofeedback