American Mental Health Counselors Association
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E-News from Washington
Vol. 07-75
November 16, 2007
New SAMHSA Report on Mental Health Emphasizes Promotion and Prevention
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently issued a new report to Congress promoting the use of research-based approaches that provide parenting support skills and child resilience – even in the face of adversity. Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health: Strengthening Parenting and Enhancing Child Resilience emphasizes that these proactive approaches help prevent mental health problems from developing or can greatly mitigate them if they do occur – especially in children and youth.
SAMHSA Administrator Terry Cline, Ph.D., announced the report’s availability in remarks at the 23rd Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in Atlanta , Georgia . Gary Gintner, Ph.D., president of AMHCA, attended the symposium in early November that focused on creating a public policy agenda for the prevention of mental illnesses and on promoting mental health and advancing prevention efforts. The new SAMHSA report recommendations advance the growing medical consensus that mental health needs must be aggressively addressed early in life to promote public health interests.
Prepared by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) at the request of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, the report outlines the public health rationale for launching a “strength-based” approach to address the mental health needs of children on a societal, rather than just individual, basis. It also summarizes evidence that these programs can make a real difference in strengthening families and children.
In particular, it notes that one half of all diagnosable mental illnesses begin by age 14, and three fourths by age 24, and that early detection and early intervention can yield enormous benefits to the individual, the family and society.
The report’s other major findings include:
• The need to communicate the promise, societal benefits and cost-effectiveness of investing in prevention and resilience building efforts,
• The importance of developing evidenced-based practices with accountability systems to ensure better insight into how to maximize program efficacy, and
• The benefits of developing a coordinated assessment and accountability system for promotion, prevention and treatment in children’s mental health.
Copies of Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health: Strengthening Parenting and Enhancing Child Resilience are available on the web at .
Please feel free to contact Beth Powell of AMHCA (800-326-2642, ext. 105; e-mail: bpowell@) if you have any questions or need additional information.
Beth Powell
Director, Public Policy and Professional Issues
American Mental Health Counselors Association
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