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Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on January 25, 2006
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2006 32(3):424-427; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbj042
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Making Progress in Mental Health Policy in Conservative Times: One Step at a Time

Howard H. Goldman1,2
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

1To whom correspondence should be addressed; e-mail: hh.goldman{at}verizon.net

Progress in mental health services has been made incrementally in a sequence of policy steps. In recent years, in spite of political conservatism, progressive changes have advanced new principles of service delivery. Reports from the surgeon general and the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health advanced these principles, including recovery and evidence-based practices. Both of these high-level reports were influenced by the findings of the Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT). The Schizophrenia PORT established the effectiveness of mental health treatments and supports, which provided a scientific foundation for the optimistic focus on recovery and its expectation of improved outcomes for individuals with severe mental disorders. The PORT study also established the gap between treatment recommendations and actual services. Concern about this gap has motivated efforts to transform services by implementing evidence-based practices. Advances in broad mental health and social policy, coupled with continued advances in science, have the potential to improve the care of individuals who experience severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia.

Keywords: mental health policy / mental health services


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