Population Mental Health Science: Guiding Principles and Initial Agenda.
A recent American Psychological Association Summit provided an urgent call to transform psychological science and practice away from a solely individual-level focus to become accountable for population-level impact on health and mental health. A population focus ensures the mental health of all chil...
| Published in: | American Psychologist Vol. 79; no. 6; pp. 805 - 824 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=179639109&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 179639109 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0003066X APT jtl: American Psychologist issn: 0003066X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2024 vid: 79 iid: 6 pid: 34 pub: American Psychological Association artinfo: ui: 179639109 10.1037/amp0001334 ppf: 805 ppct: 19 formats: tig: atl: Population Mental Health Science: Guiding Principles and Initial Agenda. aug: au: Dodge, Kenneth A. Prinstein, Mitchell J. Evans, Arthur C. Ahuvia, Isaac L. Alvarez, Kiara Beidas, Rinad S. Brown, Ashanti J. Cuijpers, Pim Denton, Ellen-ge Hoagwood, Kimberly Eaton Johnson, Christina Kazdin, Alan E. McDanal, Riley Metzger, Isha W. Rowley, Sonia N. Schleider, Jessica Shaw, Daniel S. affil: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, United States Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Department of Psychology, Georgia State University World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University Langone Health Department of Psychology, Yale University Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh su: American Psychological Association Mental health Mental health services Government policy Interprofessional relations Psychologists Population health Medical care Primary health care Health equity Health promotion Well-being Machine learning Physical activity Integrated health care delivery sug: subj: Mental health Mental health services Government policy Interprofessional relations Psychologists Population health Medical care Primary health care Health equity Health promotion Well-being American Psychological Association Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals Machine learning Physical activity Integrated health care delivery keyword: intervention population mental health prevention public policy scaling intervention population mental health prevention public policy scaling ab: A recent American Psychological Association Summit provided an urgent call to transform psychological science and practice away from a solely individual-level focus to become accountable for population-level impact on health and mental health. A population focus ensures the mental health of all children, adolescents, and adults and the elimination of inequities across groups. Science must guide three components of this transformation. First, effective individual-level interventions must be scaled up to the population level using principles from implementation science, investing in novel intervention delivery systems (e.g., online, mobile application, text, interactive voice response, and machine learning-based), harnessing the strength of diverse providers, and forging culturally informed adaptations. Second, policy-driven community-level interventions must be innovated and tested, such as public efforts to promote physical activity, public policies to support families in early life, and regulation of corporal punishment in schools. Third, transformation is needed to create a new system of universal primary care for mental health, based on models such as Family Connects, Triple P, PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience, Communities That Care, and the Early Childhood Collaborative of the Pittsburgh Study. This new system must incorporate valid measurement, universal screening, and a community-based infrastructure for service delivery. Addressing tasks ahead, including scientific creativity and discovery, rigorous evaluation, and community accountability, will lead to a comprehensive strategic plan to shape the emergent field of public mental health. Public Significance Statement: On February 25, 2022, the American Psychological Association's Council of Representatives adopted a resolution to support population health, which led to the Population Health Science Summit held on September 12–13, 2023. This article summarizes key points from the Summit. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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