A Management Lesson in Existence With Elephants: What Health Care Reform Legislation Means for Behavioral Health Organizations

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Cover Story It is a strange and tortuous path that has brought the behavioral health field to this point. Over the past 24 months, we have seen major changes in the economy, in policy, and in legislation completely reshape the financing of the health and human services – and the behavioral health and social service niche within it. (This is happening at the same that science is reshaping our understanding of the brain, brain disorders, and behavior.) Many people often doubt changes in policy and regulation gelling with this simultaneous consumer . . .