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Notes from a Roundtable on Conceptualizing and Measuring Cultural Competence
This report includes presentations and a summary of discussion from a two-day roundtable held in Denver, Colorado on December 16-17, 1998. The event was sponsored by the Evaluation Center @HSRI (TEC), the Multicultural Mental Health Research Center (MMHRC), and the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE). The participants discussed and made recommendations for practical approaches to conceptualizing and measuring ethnocultural identity and cultural competence in the delivery of mental health services. Individual papers addressing measures … Read More
Date: 12/1999
Author(s): Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE) Mental Health Program.
Mental Health, Medicaid and Managed Care: Building a Unified System in Massachusetts
This case study explores the issues that arise when two state agencies—the Medicaid agency and the state mental health authority—come together to develop a managed care program for persons with serious mental illness. Reported from the perspective of the director of the SMHA, the study demonstrates how effective managers can resolve problems when autonomous state agencies, with different cultures and missions, join to blend funding streams in a program for a … Read More
Date: 11/1999
Author(s): Robert A. Dorwart, M.D., M.P.H.
Report of the Roundtable on Mental Health Services Evaluation in Frontier States
This report summarizes presentations and discussion from the Roundtable on Mental Health Services Evaluation in Frontier States held in April 1998. the Evaluation Center@HSRI (TEC) and the WICHE Mental Health Program sponsored the roundtable. The purpose of the roundtable was to identify evaluation technical assistance needs of state mental health programs in selected frontier states. This report concludes with recommendations for individual and multi-state technical assistance, and a description of collaborative efforts between TEC and … Read More
Date: 1/1999
Author(s): Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE) Mental Health Program.
A Methodology for Probabilistically Estimating Caseload Size and Overlap
This working paper presents three applications of Probabilistic Population Estimation (PPE), a new statistical procedure that provides information on the unduplicated number of people who are involved in more than one institution, program, group, or activity, either concurrently or in sequence. The first is an estimation of the unduplicated number of residents of an entire state who were hospitalized for psychiatric or substance abuse services during a five-year period. The second applies the PPE methodology … Read More
Date: 1/1999
Author(s): Steven M. Banks, Ph.D., John Pandiani, Ph.D.
Dealing with Therapist
This is a compilation of unedited messages from the OUTCMTEN list that were received between September 2, 1999 and September 16, 1999. This discussion focused on how to overcome therapist resistance to outcome measurement. The original author asked if therapists might be less resistant if outcome measures were a) truly useful to therapists in treating individual patients and b) actually helped improve their outcomes. … Read More
Date: 09/1999
Author(s): The Evaluation Center@HSRI.