4207.0 Mental health services and utilization

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
This session describes the challenges of implementing evidence based practices and strategies to understand and overcome those challenges.
Session Objectives: Discuss barriers to implementing evidence-based practice at state and provider levels. Describe elements of organizational readiness to change. Discuss strategies for successful implementation of change.
Moderator:
Julie Fenster, PhD, MPH

12:30pm
Implementing high-fidelity evidence-based practice (ACT) through a collaborative quality measurement and improvement model
Gregory B. Teague, PhD
        
12:45pm
Share the care: Integrating aging and mental health services
Cynthia Zubritsky, PhD
1:00pm
Barriers to Accessing Mental Health Parity Benefits and Quality Mental Health Services. Lessons from the Implementation of New York State's Mental Health Parity Law
Vera Oziransky, MPH (Yale School of Public Health)
1:15pm
Utilization of health care services following Georgia Medicaid's 2004 policy change for the atypical antipsychotics
Amy Walthour, PhD and Matthew Perri, PhD, RPh
        

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Mental Health
Endorsed by: Caucus on Homelessness, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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