Jayakanth Srinivasan and Christopher Ivany
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781501760501
- eISBN:
- 9781501760525
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501760501.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Health Psychology
This book tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. ...
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This book tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. It is a step-by-step guidebook for military and civilian health care systems alike. The book provides a unique insider–outsider perspective as key participants in the process, sharing how they confronted the challenges first-hand and helped craft and guide the unfolding change. The Army's system was being overwhelmed with mental health problems among soldiers and their family members impeding combat readiness. The key to the transformation was to apply the tenets of “learning” health care systems. Building a learning health care system is hard; building a learning mental health care system is even harder. As the book recounts, the Army overcame the barriers to success, and its experience is full of lessons for any health care system seeking to transform.Less
This book tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. It is a step-by-step guidebook for military and civilian health care systems alike. The book provides a unique insider–outsider perspective as key participants in the process, sharing how they confronted the challenges first-hand and helped craft and guide the unfolding change. The Army's system was being overwhelmed with mental health problems among soldiers and their family members impeding combat readiness. The key to the transformation was to apply the tenets of “learning” health care systems. Building a learning health care system is hard; building a learning mental health care system is even harder. As the book recounts, the Army overcame the barriers to success, and its experience is full of lessons for any health care system seeking to transform.
