New Technologies Will Expand Payer & Consumer Choices: What the Futurists Predict for the Behavioral Health & Social Service Field

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry Analysis Strategic planning has taken on new dimensions for most organizations in the field. I’m reminded of a quote by R.D. Laing: “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” That is certainly the case in the behavioral health and social service field. For most of the planning that our team has facilitated over the past year, we were looking at what I call the “near future” — the environmental . . .