Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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7 Perspectives on the Future Along the Continuum
7 Perspectives on the Future Along the Continuum
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• Many resources are now available for health care systems and providers to use that are effective, comprehensive, and directly target people at risk for suicide, but a lack of awareness and training is one of the biggest roadblocks to suicide prevention. (Grumet)
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These services include a comprehensive approach to substance abuse treatment and mental health services, with the goal of treating a person's entire life and not just a person's addiction. CCG seeks to link potential clients to comprehensive substance abuse treatment and mental health services.
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Together, researchers, service providers, and community members could "sit around the table and cocreate solutions that will improve suicide prevention." This would help create unity among health care providers, mental health services, and people in the community, he said. It also would empower people in communities to be more proactive in their own treatment processes.
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"We believe it really is transformative in the health care systems that have adopted it." In the meantime, the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention has released recommended standard care practices that health care providers can adopt. National organizations should endorse and distribute these standard care practices, said Grumet, and health care providers should be familiar with them.
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Investments are needed both upstream and downstream from suicide prevention, she observed, which has the effect of linking public health and mental health. Downstream efforts are things like Zero Suicide, the use of robust electronic health records that can capture the work that health care systems are doing, well-trained staff, 24/7 crisis services, and psychiatric emergency rooms, which can reduce the burden on emergency rooms and provide better and more timely care to people with mental health needs.
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With the grave public health i ssues facing Americans today, collaboration will yield faster and greater results. PREVENTION AT ALL LEVELS The best way to help people with serious mental illness, said Arthur Evans, chief executive officer of the American Psychological Association and previously the commissioner in Philadelphia for the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services, is to begin with the entire population.
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Many people with serious mental illness are involved in the criminal justice system, the child welfare system, the health care system, or other societal institutions. Strategies exist to help those systems identify and address mental health issues, but these strategies are not always used.
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"We have to be able to take all of that and to essentially cook. We have to put things together using our best judgments because we won't always have the studies for the very specific individuals we're working with." In Philadelphia, his department worked with a large immigrant population that did not even have a word for mental health.
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"If Marcus didn't have that background and ability to empathize with our patient population, we wouldn't have had that revenue growth." Employers need to be educated about the immense benefits of hiring people with criminal justice backgrounds, said Ostrovsky. "That's a barrier that needs overcoming." Evans spoke of a similar experience with health care providers in Philadelphia, where hiring people with lived experience led to greater engage ent with patients and greater resources for the program.
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It's about these broader issues that affect our health. LINKING SUICIDE PREVENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS Finally, Nadine Kaslow, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine, pointed out that the workshop has been about both suicide prevention and serious mental illness.
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