The Fort Bragg managed care experiment
Article Abstract:
The Fort Bragg Evaluation of mental health services for children has been appreciated for its design and implementation. However, it is difficult to guess the proportion of children requiring services in various settings under a comprehensive and well-functioning continuum of services. Since knowledge about the primary components of a comprehensive system of care is lacking, difficulties exist in calculating the time period for evaluating outcomes. Coordination of services and guidance as to their use are important. Future research must focus on the long term improvements provided by such services.
Publication Name: Journal of Child and Family Studies
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1062-1024
Year: 1996
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Families and therapists achieve clinical outcomes, systems of care mediate the process
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The Fort Bragg Evaluation of child psychiatric services draws unfavorable response for its failure to achieve significant clinical outcomes due to its ignorance of the multidetermined nature of serious clinical problems. Low ecological validity of treatment and low accountability of mental health therapists add to the failure. A skilled, pragmatic and ecologically minded therapist is more likely to achieve positive clinical outcomes. Clinical outcomes for the family and therapists can improve by changing clinical practices to reflect the work of changing child and family social ecologies.
Publication Name: Journal of Child and Family Studies
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1062-1024
Year: 1996
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The Fort Bragg managed care experiment: what do the results mean for publicly funded systems of care?
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The Fort Bragg Evaluation of child psychiatric services tends to confuse a continuum-of-care approach with a system-of-care approach by using the two terms interchangeably although they have different planning and implementation processes. The study examines processes and outcomes of managing care in publicly funded systems. Differences in conditions between the study and publicly funded systems of care limit the generalization of results to such systems of care. Although the study pays little attention to issues of treatment type and power, it improves access to services.
Publication Name: Journal of Child and Family Studies
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1062-1024
Year: 1996
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