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Title: The Surgeon General


1
The Surgeon Generals Workshop on Womens Mental
Health
  • November 30 - December 1, 2005
  • Breakout Group 5
  • R Dale Walker, MD
  • Identification and Intervention Issues

2
Key Priority Issues
  • 1 - Preventive interventions for the most common
    and disabling disorders, such as major depression
    and anxiety
  • 2 - The need for screening for depression, and
    other common mental disorders in primary care,
    schools, and other settings
  • 3 - The importance of consumer and provider
    empowerment, self-determination, and choice in
    mental health treatment

3
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 1 Preventive interventions for the
    most common and disabling disorders, such as
    major depression and anxiety
  • Message
  • The concept of mental health must be broadened to
    take into consideration other systems, e.g.
    primary health, education, employment, and
    housing, recognizing that mental health impacts
    and is impacted by these systems
  • Strength-based approach
  • Highlights prevention as the beginning of the
    continuum of care
  • Expands the scope of service across generations,
    from individuals to families

4
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 1 Preventive interventions for the
    most common and disabling disorders, such as
    major depression and anxiety
  • Audiences
  • Entire health care system
  • Schools
  • Employers
  • Insurers
  • Community
  • Self-help

5
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 1 Preventive interventions for the
    most common and disabling disorders, such as
    major depression and anxiety
  • Format
  • Create community partnerships with health care,
    employers, schools, managed care, insurers, and
    peer support
  • Treatment must connect women in care to other
    systems options
  • Develop and enhance community involvement in the
    intervention process

6
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 1 Preventive interventions for the
    most common and disabling disorders, such as
    major depression and anxiety
  • Cultural Concerns
  • Recommendations will be community driven and
    developed by stakeholder partners
  • Consideration of self-directed complementary and
    alternative treatments should all be apart of
    tool kit and communiqué development

7
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 2 The need for screening for
    depression, and other common mental disorders in
    primary care, schools, and other settings
  • Message Identify and develop holistic screening
    tools for assessment of mental disorders
  • Audiences Federal agencies, funders, schools,
    providers, and consumers

8
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 2 The need for screening for
    depression, and other common mental disorders in
    primary care, schools, and other settings
  • Format
  • Identify, develop, and evaluate a community-based
    tool kit that identifies important domains of
    mental health functionality, provides examples of
    effective tools, and reviews recent scientific
    research on this topic
  • Develop education protocol on how to use these
    assessment tools
  • Identify champions to promote the use and
    integration of these tools within communities

9
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 2 The need for screening for
    depression, and other common mental disorders in
    primary care, schools, and other settings
  • Cultural concerns
  • Tool kit will be community driven and developed
    by stakeholder partners

10
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 3 The importance of consumer and
    provider empowerment, self-determination, and
    choice in mental health treatment
  • Message
  • Community involvement is necessary to establish a
    process for empowerment and self-determination
  • There are multiple barriers (language, culture,
    financial) that need to be removed to empower
    consumers and providers. Federal agencies such as
    health, education, vocational, and judicial need
    to help remove these barriers.
  • A collaborative care strategy is necessary to
    overcome financial and administrative silos.

11
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 3 The importance of consumer and
    provider empowerment, self-determination, and
    choice in mental health treatment
  • Audiences
  • Entire health care system
  • Schools
  • Employers
  • Insurers
  • Community
  • Self-help

12
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 3 The importance of consumer and
    provider empowerment, self-determination, and
    choice in mental health treatment
  • Format
  • Consumer education communiqué for consumers,
    providers, and advocates
  • Tool kit on advocacy and community mobilization
    for empowering women
  • Develop an intergenerational worksheet/plan of
    management for mental health issues
  • Develop local mental health care decision making
    flow sheet, perhaps similar that developed by
    Cancer Regional Centers. Consider using a
    storytelling approach.
  • Fully address these issues for immigrant women
    and families

13
Components ofCommuniqué or Toolkit
  • Key Priority 3 The importance of consumer and
    provider empowerment, self-determination, and
    choice in mental health treatment
  • Cultural Concerns
  • Recommendations will be community driven and
    developed by stakeholder partners

14
Opportunities for Collaboration
  • Overlap and Opportunities
  • Develop National Clinical Center of Excellence on
    womens mental health issues
  • Pilot projects and community-based research
  • Special populations-based research
  • Faith-based assessment
  • Think through a more humane, interactive model of
    womens mental health care regarding trauma,
    culture, and gender
  • Develop implementation process team and call to
    action

15
Opportunities for Collaboration
  • Overlap and Opportunities
  • Dont underestimate the power of women consumers
    and develop a strategy to tap those resources
  • Develop and incubate community leadership on
    womens mental health issues
  • Breakdown the us vs. them barriers, instead
    form powerful partnerships
  • Follow the money!!
  • Remember safety and confidentiality
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