MODULE
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INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING
Venice, July 9-19, 2008
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Venice, July 10-12, 2008
Mental Health Policy Research: Epidemiology and Services
Research
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Howard
H. Goldman
Professor
of Psychiatry, University of Maryland
School of Medicine,
Baltimore, USA |
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| Curriculum
Vitae |
Howard H. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is the author of more than
250 publications and is also the editor of Psychiatric
Services. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of
several other journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry and the Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. Dr.
Goldman served as the Senior Scientific Editor of the Surgeon General's
Report on Mental Health from 1997-1999 for which he was awarded the
Surgeon General’s Medallion. During 2002 and 2003 he was a
consultant on evidence-based practices for the President’s New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health. In 2002 Dr. Goldman was elected to the
Institute
of
Medicine
of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Session I
- INTRODUCTION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY
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-
Diagnostic
Approaches for Mental Disorders
- The
Epidemiology of Mental Disorders
- The
Epidemiology of Mental Health Service Use
- Assessments
of the Need for Mental Health Services
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This
session will review the history of psychiatric nosology, and the
development of explicit diagnostic criteria that facilitated the
development of diagnostic instruments for epidemiologic and clinical
research. After twenty-five years of experience with current
diagnostic criteria since the 1980 publication of DSM-III, both the
benefits of more reliable diagnoses and the limitations of
associated criteria and instruments will be discussed.
Alternative approaches will be explored for using a combination of
categorical, dimensional, and biological diagnostic criteria for
determining diagnostic thresholds, medical necessity for care, and
the relationship of impairment and disability measures for making
such judgments. This session will provide the basic
clinical and epidemiological background for further mental health
quality, economics, and policy research
sessions.
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Session II - MENTAL HEALTH POLICY, SERVICES AND EVALUATION
RESEARCH
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- MH Policy,
Plans and Programmes
- MH
Legislation and Human Rights
- Organization of
Services for Mental Health
- Quality
Improvement for Mental Health
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The
session on MH policy research is designed to provide a basic
understanding of MH policy to inform the conduct of research on the
organization and financing of MH services, including quality
improvement activities and their evaluation. The course will
begin with definitions of social policy and MH policy, placed in a
context of the history of MH services and other related human
services (such as education, welfare, criminal justice, housing and
labor). Participants will conduct an exercise to develop a model
mental health policy, following its essential steps - and then learn
how to evaluate its implementation and its impact. They will focus
on how a policy is developed into a MH plan and then a programme.
Implementation issues will be studied to inform the design of
evaluations of MH policies. Trainees will then study examples of MH
legislation and methods for evaluating the implementation
and impact of policies that derive from such laws. After an
introduction to the organization of services for MH, trainees will
study a variety of quality improvement strategies and learn how to
monitor and evaluate them.
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