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The Mental Health System: Access, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Monitoring

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This chapter reviews the mental healthcare cycle—the process that takes an individual from problem recognition to treatment. The mental healthcare cycle is multi-faceted and rarely straightforward. It involves creating access to care, conducting a professional assessment/diagnostic evaluation, selecting appropriate interventions from the wide variety of treatment options, and finally monitoring the individual for both treatment response as well as maintenance of care. Understanding each part of the cycle is important to the informatician, so that they can best identify the components that provide data points for their work. In order to do so, each part of the cycle will be reviewed, beginning with the various pathways to mental healthcare through the meeting between a person and a mental health provider.

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Boazak, M., Beyer, J.L. (2021). The Mental Health System: Access, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Monitoring. In: Tenenbaum, J.D., Ranallo, P.A. (eds) Mental Health Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70558-9_5

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