The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has recently developed guidelines for establishing a comprehensive crisis response system for behavioral health. Per these guidelines, a comprehensive system should provide individuals in crisis with “someone to call,” “someone to respond,” and “a place to go” to receive crisis response services.
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Research Applications of Electronic Recovery Records
Recovery support services (RSS) are non-clinical services that assist individuals and families in attaining and sustaining recovery from substance use disorders.
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Availability and Correlates of Integrated Treatment for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in Outpatient Behavioral Health Treatment Facilities
People with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (SUDs) benefit from integrated treatment to address both disorders concurrently. For several decades, policymakers and behavioral health systems have worked to overcome the historical separation between mental health and SUD treatment to improve care for people with co-occurring disorders.
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Wait Time Standards for Behavioral Health Network Adequacy
Insufficient access to behavioral health (BH) care and the inability to get timely care are significant problems in the United States. Concerns about BH network adequacy have been prompted by evidence of narrow networks for BH, variation in network adequacy across plans, and evidence that network adequacy impacts access to certain specialties.
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Overview of Bereavement and Grief Services in the United States
This report presents findings of an environmental scan and semi-structured interviews with key contributors, including governmental and non-governmental contributors, such as researchers, clinicians, advocates, service provider/payers, and policy experts. The findings included in this report are organized by specific domains and themes found within the peer-reviewed and grey literature.
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Opioid Use Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women and their Children
This study represents findings from a descriptive analysis of a linked mother-child Medicaid claims dataset to examine the characteristics of pregnant women who use medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) or intensive behavioral health treatment; additional analysis describes the mental health and neurodevelopment outcomes of their children at one year and three years.
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Evaluation of the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Grant Program for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) is a civil court procedure whereby a judge orders an adult with serious mental illness (SMI) to comply with community-based treatment. Developed as a less restrictive alternative to involuntary hospitalization, AOT focuses on individuals at risk of clinical deterioration or rehospitalization because they do not voluntarily comply with prescribed treatment.
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Developing a Database of SUD Treatment Needs
A 2020 study examined the feasibility of using substance use disorder (SUD) patient intake assessment data as source of information for treatment planning.
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Tele-Behavioral Health Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries During COVID-19
This issue brief summarizes analyses of Medicare fee-for-service data examining beneficiary use of tele-behavioral health services during 2019 and 2020. Results demonstrate that the number of Medicare beneficiaries receiving behavioral health care via telehealth increased dramatically during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
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Feasibility of Calculating Measures to Monitor Quality Performance of Behavioral Health Programs
The calculation of behavioral health quality measures at the clinic level holds great promise for monitoring clinic performance over time, and for providing information for clinics to use to revise their processes and procedures to improve their performance.