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Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health
William O´donohue (Ed.)
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Description for Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health
Hardback. Editor(s): O'Donohue, William T., PhD. Num Pages: biography. BIC Classification: MBNH9; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This innovative volume presents a cogent case for quality improvement (QI) in behavioral healthcare as ethical practice, solid science, and good business. Divided between foundational concepts, key QI tools and methods, and emerging applications, it offers guidelines for raising care standards while addressing ongoing issues of treatment validity, staffing and training, costs and funding, and integration with medical systems. Expert contributors review the implications and potential of QI in diverse areas such as treatment of entrenched mental disorders, in correctional facilities, and within the professional context of the American Psychological Association. The insights, examples, and strategies featured will increase in ... Read more
This innovative volume presents a cogent case for quality improvement (QI) in behavioral healthcare as ethical practice, solid science, and good business. Divided between foundational concepts, key QI tools and methods, and emerging applications, it offers guidelines for raising care standards while addressing ongoing issues of treatment validity, staffing and training, costs and funding, and integration with medical systems. Expert contributors review the implications and potential of QI in diverse areas such as treatment of entrenched mental disorders, in correctional facilities, and within the professional context of the American Psychological Association. The insights, examples, and strategies featured will increase in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
327
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319262079
SKU
V9783319262079
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Ref
99-15
About William O´donohue (Ed.)
William T. O'Donohue is professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada--Reno. For the past 16 years Dr. O'Donohue has directed a free clinic supported by a National Institute of Justice grant which assesses and treats sexually abused children. He regularly testifies as an expert witness in this area and has published numerous books and ... Read more
Reviews for Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health
Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health is ... a welcome and needed contribution to the QI literature that is uniquely focused on behavioral care. It will be valuable for a wide audience that includes any mental health professional or paraprofessional with systems' responsibilities, either in a leadership position or in the trenches: hospital or health center psychologists, social workers, administrators, directors ... Read more