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Those Who Hesitate Are Lost: The Case for Setting Behavioral Health Treatment and Disability Standards, Part I

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There are multiple factors that impede the implementation of standards into the behavioral health (BH) treatment and disability processes. The combination of physical and psychological conditions as well as the influence of psychosocial issues has consistently been identified as having negative effects on treatment and treatment outcomes. Further, the wide-spread lack of standardization causes a multitude of problems throughout both BH processes. The focus of this first article in a three-part series will examine the explosion of behavioral health claims and the major factors, such as comorbid physical conditions and psychosocial issues, associated with these types of claims. In addition, the overarching theme of lack of standardization will begin to be explored in regard to the problematic definition of disability, communication difficulties between treating professionals and disability insurers and agencies as well as the introduction of bias into the BH treatment and disability processes.

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Warren, P.A. Those Who Hesitate Are Lost: The Case for Setting Behavioral Health Treatment and Disability Standards, Part I. Psychol. Inj. and Law 6, 183–195 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-013-9163-x

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