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This guide highlights strategies for behavioral health and housing providers to conduct outreach and engage with individuals experiencing homelessness, initiate use of behavioral health treatment as they wait to receive stable housing and retain them in their recovery efforts once housed.
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The Mental Health Awareness Training (MHAT) advisory will promote implementation of MHATs by targeting the workplace more broadly, from traditional settings to places in the community people go all the time.
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This advisory discusses the role of peer support workers and models of peer support services that are available to assist individuals who are experiencing a crisis. Peer support services are a vital component of crisis care.
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The guide provides considerations and strategies for interdisciplinary teams, peer specialists, clinicians, registered nurses, behavioral health organizations, and policy makers in understanding, selecting, and implementing evidence-based interventions that support older adults with serious mental illness.
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This guide reviews ways that telehealth modalities can be used to provide treatment for serious mental illness and substance use disorders among adults, distills the research into recommendations for practice, and provides examples of how these recommendations can be implemented.
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This guide reviews interventions on treating substance misuse and substance use disorders (SUD) in youth with serious emotional disturbances (SED), distills the research into recommendations for practice, and provides examples of the ways that these recommendations can be implemented.
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This guide supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to prevent marijuana use by pregnant women. It describes relevant research findings, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources.
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The goal of this guide is to review the literature on treating substance misuse and substance use disorders in the context of first-episode psychosis, distill the research into recommendations for practice, and provide examples of the ways that these recommendations can be implemented by first-episode psychosis treatment programs.
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This guide examines a wide range of evidence-based practices for screening and assessment of people in the justice system who have co-occurring mental and substance use disorders.
View ResourceSystematic evidence review comparing the effectiveness of strategies to prevent and de-escalate aggressive behaviors in psychiatric patients in acute care settings, including interventions aimed specifically at reducing use of seclusion and restraint.
View ResourceSystematic evidence review assessing the effectiveness and harms of first- and second-generation antipsychotics FGAs and SGAs used for treating children, adolescents, and young adults.
View ResourceSystematic evidence review describing and reviewing the effectiveness of interventions that address disparities among adult patients with serious mental illness.
View ResourceSystematic evidence review examining comparative effectiveness and harms of psychotherapy and medications for childhood anxiety disorders panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, and separation anxiety.
View ResourceThis report provides current, comprehensive data on the use of restricted housing, and also documents efforts across the country to reduce the number of people in restricted housing and to reform the conditions in which isolated prisoners are held in order to improve safety for prisoners, staff, and communities at large.
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This toolkit outlines the essential components for supportive housing services and programs for people living with mental illness disorders.
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This toolkit offers evidence-based practices to help public officials develop family psychoeducation-based mental health programs.
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This toolkit offers tools and guidance to facilitate the implementation of the evidence-based practice of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT).
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This kit provides information and resources for implementing supported education that enables consumers to pursue goals interrupted due to symptoms of behavioral health conditions.
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This kit equips treatment teams at mental health agencies with guidance on incorporating the latest scientific evidence with patient input to help them make decisions about medication management.
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This toolkit offers guidance to behavioral health officials on developing illness-management and recovery mental health programs that emphasize personal goal setting and actionable strategies for recovery.
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This kit provides practice principles for supported employment, an approach to vocational rehabilitation for people living with serious mental illness.
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This document provides state by state information on implementation of intensive care coordination using a wraparound approach for children and youth with complex mental and substance use disorders.
View ResourceSuicidal behavior is a major public health problem in the United States. The suicide rate has steadily increased over the past 2 decades. This large-scale cohort comparison study found that SPI+ was associated with a reduction in suicidal behavior and increased treatment engagement among suicidal patients following ED discharge and may be a valuable clinical tool in health care settings.
View ResourceThis article features the three main replicated treatments for suicide: Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention, and the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality.
View ResourceZero Suicide operationalizes the core components necessary for health care systems to transform suicide care into seven elements. Within each element section, find a description of what each element is, why it is necessary to Zero Suicide implementation, a summary of supporting research, and key readings and tools. Use the navigation bar that appears at the top of each element page to jump between sections.
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