Managed care and people with severe mental illness: challenges and opportunities for social work.
The managed care initiatives sweeping the nation are having a profound effect on the way that social workers deliver services to people with severe mental illness. Social work, with its client-focused value base and relevant conceptual frameworks, has an opportunity to provide leadership in this area. To do so, however, social workers must keep abreast of developments in managed care; use efficacy information more systematically; and promote consumer involvement in the design, implementation, and monitoring of managed care programs for people with severe mental illness.
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Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Ontario. wes@fsw.utoronto.ca
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010358:Patient Participation; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States