Textbook of Administrative Psychiatry: New Concepts for a Changing Behavioral Health System Book

Introduction. Section I: Overview of the Evolving Behavioral Healthcare System. Introduction. The private sector: history, current status, and future implications. The evolving behavioral health system: the public sector: past, present, and future. Section II: Core Administrative Psychiatry Concepts. Introduction. Organizational theory. Leadership. Planning: organizational responses to uncertainty in unstable and complex environments. Continuous quality improvement: principles of implementation in behavioral healthcare. Training in administrative psychiatry: current challenges. The medical director’s role in organized care delivery systems. Section III: New Administrative Psychiatry Concepts. Introduction. Behavioral health network establishment. Behavioral health network maintenance. Staffing behavioral health systems. Capitated financing and population-based care. Behavioral health outcomes: patient and system. Health information and confidentiality. Section IV: New Concepts for a Changing Behavioral Health System. Introduction. Changing roles in primary behavioral healthcare. Changing roles for psychiatrists. Changing roles of mental health professionals. Changing careers. Changing roles for primary consumers in community psychiatry. Changing family roles. Section V: How Selected Behavioral Health Systems Are Changing: Toward Integrated Systems. Introduction. Private psychiatric hospitals. Managed behavioral healthcare organizations. Psychiatric services in the veterans health administration. Psychiatric services in the military. State and county agencies. Health maintenance organizations. Physician-hospital organizations. Behavioral group practice. Children’s services. Section VI: law and ethics. Introduction. Administrative psychiatry: practice and legal regulation. Criminal law. American prisons. Ethics. Conclusion: future issues for administrative psychiatry. Glossary. Index.