The lack of reliable and useful quality measures for mental and behavioral health services has been frequently cited by State policymakers. This section tries to address these concerns through a ...

The MHT can thus be considered a reliable and valid measurement tool for mental health. The present study proposes a new theory of mental health, the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory (MPMHT) ...

Tools developed from this work will use existing data to determine ... of using CAHPS® data to yield potential measures for assessing the quality of behavioral and mental health care to children and ...

Challenges to conducting independent impact evaluations include the development of new methods to measure access, process, cost and quality in a simple and cost effective way, and the selection of ...