Innovations in psychosocial interventions and their delivery : leveraging cutting-edge science to improve the world's mental health / Alan E. Kazdin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-361) and index.

Part I. Background and the mental health crisis Introduction Scope and burdens of psychological dysfunction Treatment gap: barriers to providing and recieving services Part II. Current status and advances in psychosocial interventions Evidence-based psychoscial interventions: advances and challengeres Current trends in treatment research and practice Part III Need to expand interventions and models of intervention delivery Novel models of delivery 1: expanding the ways of providing Novel methods of delivery 2: expanding interventions and the ways they are provided Part IV. Extending our conceptual views of treatment, research, and interventions Expanding our perspectives on interventions, models of delivery, and clinical care Conceptualizing the challenge and moving to solutions Closing comments: key steps to reduce the burdens of mental illness

Mental illness is an enormous burden worldwide, as reflected in the number of individuals who suffer from a mental disorder, the personal pain and suffering they and their families experience, the exorbitant costs of providing but also of failing to provide services, and the spillover of mental health problems into physical health (e.g., many physical maladies and earlier-than-expected deaths associated with mental illness) and functioning in everyday life (e.g., in social relations, employment, happiness, and quality of life). We have many interventions that can help, but they are not brought to the many people in need of psychological services. There are many novel models of delivering these interventions that could be scaled to reach people in need and surmount the many barriers to providing and receiving services. Promising models of delivery are drawn from physical health care, public health, business, social policy, and other disciplines and can serve to illustrate what can be done now. This book conveys new ways of delivering treatment as well as new ways of developing and investigating treatments so that they are much more likely to reach people in need. The overall goal is, or ought to be, reducing the burdens of mental illness. This book conveys novel ways of providing treatment if we adopt that goal more explicitly and draw on the best science available to achieve that. --.