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Workshop: Evaluating Implementation and Spread of Evidence-Based Practices in VHA Specialty Mental Health Services

Workshop: Evaluating Implementation and Spread of Evidence-Based Practices in VHA Specialty Mental Health Services. Presenters. Robert Rosenheck, MD Richard Owen, MD Alexander Young, MD Sandra Resnick, PhD Anthony Campinell, PhD Timothy Cuerdon, PhD. Background: Specialty Mental Health.

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Workshop: Evaluating Implementation and Spread of Evidence-Based Practices in VHA Specialty Mental Health Services

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  1. Workshop:Evaluating Implementation and Spread of Evidence-Based Practices in VHA Specialty Mental Health Services

  2. Presenters • Robert Rosenheck, MD • Richard Owen, MD • Alexander Young, MD • Sandra Resnick, PhD • Anthony Campinell, PhD • Timothy Cuerdon, PhD

  3. Background: Specialty Mental Health • National treatment guidelines • Pervasive national problems with mental health care • low rates of use of evidence-based practices • Assertive Community Treatment, Family Psychoeducation, Supported Employment,clozapine, management of metabolic side-effects • 2002: Presidents New Freedom Commission • 2004: Comprehensive VHA Strategic Plan for Mental Health Services • 2008: Uniform Mental Health Services Package

  4. Improving Care • Few successful projects in serious, persistent mental illness • eg, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder • Recent research / practice collaborations • local • regional • national • Expand delivery of evidence-based and recovery-oriented treatment • diverse interventions and policy • systematic process & impact evaluations

  5. Workshop Goals • Identify challenges to implementation and spread • successful and unsuccessful approaches • Policy • VHA Office of Mental Health & PCS • dissemination, fidelity, outcomes • Research • Mental Health QUERI • how to collaborate with OMH • research designs to inform policy • Next steps

  6. Overview • Presentations (60 minutes) • Rosenheck: improving antipsychotic cost-effectiveness • Owen: improving antipsychotic metabolic monitoring • Young: implementing evidence-based practices in schizophrenia • Resnick: evaluating dissemination of supported employment • Campinell & Cuerdon: OMH • Open discussion / Q & A

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