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The Need for Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health

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Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health

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Psychiatric disorders are prevalent conditions that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide (World Health Organization, 2004). Although rates vary depending on the definition used, epidemiological research suggests that nearly 50 % of individuals will at some point in their lives meet diagnostic criteria for a psychiatric condition from among anxiety, mood, substance use, and impulse control disorders (Kessler et al., 2005). Each year, an estimated 26.2 % of adults (Kessler, Chiu, Demler, & Walters, 2005) and between 6.1 % and 40.3 % of children and adolescents (Kessler et al., 2012; Roberts, Attkisson, & Rosenblatt, 1998) experience at least one psychiatric disorder, with more than 40 % of these individuals also suffering from other comorbid conditions.

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Gaudiano, B.A., Dalrymple, K.L., D’Avanzato, C., Bunaciu, L. (2016). The Need for Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health. In: O'Donohue, W., Maragakis, A. (eds) Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26209-3_3

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