Behavioral Health Management articles from November 1998

Behavioral Health Management archives from November 1998

Taking Federal Addictions Treatment Policy into a New Era.
November 1, 1998... One of the key federal agencies shaping addictions treatment has undergone a major transformation since its creation in the late 1980s. The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...

Y2K Risk Assessment and Disaster Recovery.
November 1, 1998... In the previous issue, we discussed the potential legal risks,associated with the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem (Legal Risks of the Y2K Problem, Behavioral Health Management, Sept/Oct 1998, pp. 12-14). Table 1 summarizes the chief points made in that...

Beware the Lure of the Chat Room.
November 1, 1998... The Internet has been given a lot of visibility lately as a means of communicating information to a wide audience. That it does so is undeniably true. In the past, most people would not have had access to much of the information that is now...

How CMHCs Are Taking on a New Role (and a New Name).
November 1, 1998... These venerable institutions are adapting to the evolving demands of publicly funded managed care Three years ago I offered, in this magazine, a prediction for private managed care companies: "There is a CMHC in your future" (in "Why CMHCs...

What Iowa Has Learned About Managed Medicaid.
November 1, 1998... Interview with Candice Woods Nardini, MPA, Project Director, Iowa Mental Health Access Plan One of the most remarkable sociopolitical experiments of our time involves the pairing of public agencies and private managed care companies to...

Mapping the Meds.
November 1, 1998... Interview with Steven P. Shon, MD, Texas Medication Algorithm Project Medication is central to the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, the primary diagnoses of the chronically mentally ill, yet there is a...

PACT: Is It the Answer?
November 1, 1998... Interview with Mary Ann Test, PhD, Program for Assertive Community Treatment SPMI--the severely and persistently mentally ill; these are the patients that can break the best of managed care plans, which is why so many plans so resolutely...

When Personal Catastrophe Hits the Workplace.
November 1, 1998... A double shooting taught this supervisor some hard-won lessons I didn't know the details of the case--I knew that Charley, a seasoned adult probation officer, and Steve, a clinical supervisor and specialist in working with sex offenders,...

That's Show Business.
November 1, 1998... Touring the exhibit hall at the recent Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow meeting was a great way to get a feel for what's happening--and isn't happening--in managed behavioral healthcare. The show showed these things--that was its job--and the...