Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System

Meaghan Stacy is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and a licensed clinical psychologist. Charlie A. Davidson is a licensed psychologist at the Atlanta Center for Cognitive Therapy and Adjunct Lecturer at Emory University.

• Introduction; 1. Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System: The Past, Present, and Future of Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis Charlie A. Davidson, Olivia Altamirano, Amy Weisman de Mamani, and Meaghan Stacy; Section 1. The Past: 2. Psychosocial Treatment and the Schizophrenia Spectrum: Roots and Origins Will Spaulding, Andrea Avila, and Eric Evans; 3. The Rehabilitation Model for Persons with Psychosis: History, Challenges, Controversies, and Future Prospects Jerome Yoman; 4. Outcome and Cognitive Treatments in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Illness Past and Present: An Overview Matthew M. Kurtz; Section 2. The Present: 5. Training US Community Mental Health Centers in Evidence-Based Coordinated Specialty Care for First Episode Psychosis: Observations from the NAVIGATE Program Trainers Shirley M. Glynn, Susan Gingerich, Piper Meyer-Kalos, and Delbert G. Robinson; 6. Implementing Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis: Lessons Learned from the Danish Mental Healthcare System Louise Birkedal Glenthøj, Samantha Jankowski, Lisa Dixon, and Merete Nordentoft; Section 3. The Future: 7. A Way Forward: Enhancing Training in Psychosocial Interventions for Serious Mental Illness Shirley M. Glynn and Mary A. Jansen; 8. From Deinstitutionalization to Deprescribing and Beyond Rebecca Miller and Anthony Pavlo; 9. The Road Ahead: A Call to Action Marci L. Gaither and Helen J. Wood; 10. Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System: Systems, Culture, and Change Meaghan Stacy and Charlie A. Davidson.

'The experienced contributors in this edited book offer a rich and comprehensive blueprint for transforming our mental healthcare system. They exude passion and hope for recovery for individuals with serious mental illness and psychosis within an increasingly compassionate and just system. Readers will find invaluable the evidence-informed innovations for psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery.' Nadine J. Kaslow, Ph.D., ABPP, Emory University School of Medicine; Past President, American Psychological Association, USA