Missouri

J Clin Psychiatry. 2007;68 Suppl 4:45-8

Parks JJ.

Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri-Columbia and the Missouri Department of Mental Health, Jefferson City, Mo, USA. prksjo@centurytel.net

There is evidence that state-of-the-art psychiatric treatments are not being translated into community settings, resulting in the de facto denial of up-to-date psychiatric care for many Americans with mental illness. Although multiple models of evidence-based care exist, little is known about how to disseminate information regarding these models to clinicians in real-world practice. (More)

J Psychoactive Drugs. 2008 Mar;40(1):97-107

Gotham HJ, White MK, Bergethon HS, Feeney T, Cho DW, Keehn B.

Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499, USA. gothamhj@umkc.edu

Similar to implementing an evidence-based practice (EPB), implementing an evidence-based assessment (EBA) is a long, complex process that can take several years to complete. Between 2002 and 2007, the state of Missouri first piloted the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs-Initial (GAIN-I; Dennis et al. 2006) assessment at one state-contracted adolescent substance abuse treatment program and then implemented the GAIN statewide. (More)

http://www.dmh.mo.gov/cps/initiatives/EBP.htm

http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/stateresourceguides/missouri01.asp

http://www.dmh.mo.gov/

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