PSY-8509: Behavioral Health Services Policy

Titan, A., Doyle, A., Pfaff, K., Baiu, I., Lee, A., Graham, L., Shelton, A., & Hawn, M. (2021). Impact of policy-based and institutional interventions on postoperative opioid prescribing practices. The American Journal of Surgery.
This article discusses the outcomes of policies reducing the overprescribing of opioids.

Kelly, B. D., Drogin, E., McSherry, B., & Donnelly, M. (2020). Mental health, mental capacity, ethics, and the law in the context of COVID-19 (coronavirus). International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 73, 101632.
This article demonstrates the complexity of psychiatric and legal issues prompted by COVID-19 in terms of providing mental health care.

de Farias, F. R., & de Oliveira Braz, J. M. (2014). Stigma diagnosis and de-institutionalization of the mentally ill criminal: A case study. Psychology, 5(8), 840–848.
This article addresses mental health policy related to the criminalization of mental illness.

Ortega, G., Rodriguez, J. A., Maurer, L. R., Witt, E. E., Perez, N., Reich, A., & Bates, D. W. (2020). Telemedicine, COVID-19, and disparities: Policy implications. Health Policy and Technology, 9(3), 368–371.
This article discusses some of the positive changes and potential pitfalls of increasing access to telehealth.

Wilson, K. E. (2020). The abolition or reform of mental health law: How should the law recognise and respond to the vulnerability of persons with mental impairment? Medical Law Review, 28(1), 30–64.
This article discusses the need for reform for mental health laws.

Nguyen, T., Seiler, N., Brown, E., & O’Donoghue, B. (2020). The effect of Clinical Practice Guidelines on prescribing practice in mental health: A systematic review. Psychiatry Research, 284.
This article reviews guidelines around prescribing practices that impact mental health treatment.

Felton MC, Cashin CE, & Brown TT. (2010). What does it take? California county funding requests for recovery-oriented full service partnerships under the mental health services act. Community Mental Health Journal, 46(5), 441–451.
This article explores a specific Proposition, voted on and paid for by tax payers, to ensure local counties were able to supply innovative mental health services to the community.