The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law


 

 

Publications

In the Driver's Seat

In the Driver's Seat: A Guide to Self-Directed Mental Health Care
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In the Driver's Seat explains how self-directed care works in the arena of public mental health care, offers strategies and tactics to advocate for its adoption and takes an in-depth look at its components and financing.

 

Get it Together: How to Integrate Physical and Mental Health Care for People with Serious Mental Disorde

Get it Together: How to Integrate Physical and Mental Health Care for People with Serious Mental Disorders
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Get it Together examines model programs for improving integration and coordination of behavioral health and primary health services for adults and children with serious mental disorders who rely on the public mental health system for their care. It summarizes findings of a series of studies and offers recommendations for policymakers.


Executive Summary for Get it Together

Executive Summary for Get it Together
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Printed copies of the executive summary for Get it Together: How to Integrate Physical and Mental Health Care for People with Serious Mental Disorders.

You can also view and print the executive summary for free from the Bazelon Center's website. You can view and print the HTML version or a printer-friendly PDF version(You will need the free Acrobat Reader to view and print this file.)

Bulk discounts on purchases of more than 15 copies of printed copies of the executive summary are also available.


A New Vision of Public Mental Health

A New Vision of Public Mental Health
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This pocket folder contains a model law to provide recovery-oriented mental health services and supports. Commentary and suggested advocacy steps are also included. (2/02)


Disintegrating Systems: The State of States' Public Mental Health Systems

Disintegrating Systems: The State of States' Public Mental Health Systems
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Excerpts state-based documents to help advocates illustrate the unraveling of public policy for meeting needs of people with serious mental illnesses. 24 pp. (11/01)


Power in Planning: Self Determination Through Psychiatric Advance Directives

Power in Planning: Self Determination Through Psychiatric Advance Directives
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A new pocket folder that builds on the Bazelon Center's earlier work regarding advance psychiatric directives. Power in Planning provides forms to help create psychiatric advance directives and assesses the utility of such directives. (March 2003)


Advance Directives

Advance Directives
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Forms for preparing an advance psychiatric directive, presented in ASCII text format. (2003)


Recovery in the Community: Funding Mental Health Rehabilitative Approaches Under Medicaid (Vol. I)

Recovery in the Community: Funding Mental Health Rehabilitative Approaches Under Medicaid (Vol. I)
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Report on how states use Medicaid to cover recovery-focused services--includes sample state rules. 84 pp.


Recovery in the Community: Program and Reimbursement Strategies for Mental Health and Rehabilitative Approaches Under Medicaid (Vol. II)

Recovery in the Community: Program and Reimbursement Strategies for Mental Health and Rehabilitative Approaches Under Medicaid (Vol. II)
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The second report of two discussing the use of the Medicaid program to fund recovery-oriented services for adults with serious mental illnesses. Email pubs@bazelon.org for information on discounts on bulk purchases of this report. (July 2003)


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Recovery in the Community: Volumes I and II
$32.00
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These reports discuss the use of Medicaid to fund recovery-oriented services for adults with serious mental illnesses.


Making the Right Choices: Reforming Medicaid to Improve Outcomes for People Who Need Mental Health Care

Making the Right Choices: Reforming Medicaid to Improve Outcomes for People Who Need Mental Health Care
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This 17-page issue brief details the effect of proposed changes to Medicaid on the millions of Americans who rely on the program for needed mental health and substance abuse services. (June 2003)


Effective Public Management of Mental Health Care: Views from States on Medicaid Reforms That Enhance Service Integration and Accountability

Effective Public Management of Mental Health Care: Views from States on Medicaid Reforms That Enhance Service Integration and Accountability
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This joint publication of the Bazelon Center and the Milbank Memorial Fund distills the experience of senior officials from various states. 48 pp.


For the Long Haul: Maintaining Systems of Care Beyond the Federal Investment

For the Long Haul: Maintaining Systems of Care Beyond the Federal Investment
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Volume III in the Center for Mental Health Services-funded 2000 series on Promising Practices in Children’s Mental Health describes how federal grantees are finding the resources to sustain systems of care for children with serious emotional disturbance.


Covering Intensive Community-Based Child Mental Health Services Under Medicaid

Covering Intensive Community-Based Child Mental Health Services Under Medicaid
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Overview and six issue briefs summarize coverage of behavioral aides, intensive in-home services, child respite care, after-school programs, therapeutic summer camps and therapeutic nurseries/preschools. (10/01)


Last in Line - Report with Addendum

Last in Line - Report with Addendum
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This package bundles Last in Line: Barriers to Community Integration of Older Adults with Mental Illnesses with its addendum, analysis of relevant policies in Pennsylvania, Alabama, Illinois, Michigan and Nevada.

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Last in Line: Barriers to Community Integration of Older Adults with Mental Illnesses

Last in Line: Barriers to Community Integration of Older Adults with Mental Illnesses
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A report on the persistent segregation of older Americans with mental illnesses that provides a prescription for reform.

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Last in Line Addendum - State by State Summaries

Last in Line Addendum - State by State Summaries
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This addendum supplements Last in Line: Barriers to Community Integration of Older Adults with Mental Illnesses with analysis of relevant policies in Pennsylvania, Alabama, Illinois, Michigan and Nevada.

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Integration of Primary Care and Behavioral Health: Report on a Roundtable Discussion of Strategies for Private Health Insurance

Integration of Primary Care and Behavioral Health: Report on a Roundtable Discussion of Strategies for Private Health Insurance
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This publication presents major points from a 2004 roundtable convened to discuss strategies for integration of primary care and behavioral health in the context of private health insurance. Roundtable participants included health care leaders with expertise in primary care, mental health and substance abuse services, and public and private-sector health plan policy, purchasing and administration. [Item IN-2 $4, shipping and handling included] (Feb. 2005)

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  Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
1101 15th Street, NW, Suite 1212
Washington, DC 20005

Phone: 202-467-5730
Fax: 202-223-0409
Email: webmaster@bazelon.org

 
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
1101 15th Street, NW, Suite 1212
Washington, DC 20005

Phone: 202-467-5730
Fax: 202-223-0409
Email: webmaster@bazelon.org