Helping Soldiers Heal: How the US Army Created a Learning Mental Health Care System

Helping Soldiers Heal: How the US Army Created a Learning Mental Health Care System
ISBN-10
1501760521
ISBN-13
9781501760525
Category
Psychology
Pages
209
Language
English
Published
2021-12-15
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Authors
Jayakanth SRINIVASAN, Christopher Ivany

Description

Helping Soldiers Heal tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. It is a step-by-step guidebook for military and civilian health care systems alike. Jayakanth Srinivasan and Christopher Ivany provide a unique insider-outsider perspective as key participants in the process, sharing how they confronted the challenges firsthand and helped craft and guide the unfolding change. The Army's system was being overwhelmed with mental health problems among soldiers and their family members, impeding combat readiness. The key to the transformation was to apply the tenets of "learning" health care systems. Building a learning health care system is hard; building a learning mental health care system is even harder. As Helping Soldiers Heal recounts, the Army overcame the barriers to success, and its experience is full of lessons for any health care system seeking to transform.

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