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Handbook of Quality Assurance in Mental Health pp 65–79Cite as

Research on Mental Health Quality Assurance

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A program of mental health quality assurance is designed to (1) evaluate the quality of mental health services delivered to the public and (2) provide corrective or educational feedback to remedy detected deficiencies in service quality. The first objective involves quality assessment and therefore shares with traditional psychotherapy research and program evaluation the complex conceptual and methodological issues inherent in the measurement of clinical effectiveness. The second objective, remediation, involves strategies for behavior change, on the part of either individual clinicians or a delivery system as a whole.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716, USA

    Lawrence H. Cohen

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  1. Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York

    George Stricker

  2. Preferred Health Care, Ltd., Wilton, Connecticut, USA

    Alex R. Rodriguez

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Cohen, L.H. (1988). Research on Mental Health Quality Assurance. In: Stricker, G., Rodriguez, A.R. (eds) Handbook of Quality Assurance in Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5236-5_3

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