Mental Health Awareness Month In 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month was established to increase awareness of the importance of mental health and wellness in Americans' lives and to celebrate recovery from mental illness. National Mental Health Awareness Month in May focuses on bringing tools, resources, and education to the general public. Today Mental Health is all around us, but, what exactly is mental health? Mental health is a person’s general sense of emotional, psychological, and cognitive well-being. Everyone experiences mental health every day, but it’s often ignored unless something is going seriously wrong. The best way to prevent that is to pay attention to your mental health even when you are feeling okay or even good. Notice how your mental health is always changing. Yesterday might have been a better day than today, and that’s okay. Part of being human is moving with your emotions and knowing when something isn’t going exactly how you want it to, check-in with yourself, and reaching out to your friends and family for help when you need to take some time for your mental health, or don’t know what to do. Here are a few tips for taking care of yourself:
Anna Griest is currently serving as the Clinical Manager for Recovery Unplugged‘s Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program. She has a calling for helping people through recovery as she discovered this passion during her undergraduate time at Vanderbilt University while pursuing another field.
Measurement tools are used to gather data across different mental health outcome measures for client treatments. Facilities can request data from Opus who sends them the raw data to analyze. The data produces results showing client progress to determine the length of stay and effective treatments.
Opus has assessments including self-scoring, customizable and standard and non-standard, create your own, and PTSD screening.
OMT Benefits:
Behavioral Health clinicians have been collecting patient feedback for years. The practice of collecting assessments on perceived results has helped practices implement new methods based on the data collected. The insight gained on viewing patient information from their perspective made them feel empowered by offering input to help improve the treatment process. The tracking of cause-and-effect metrics also helps Behavioral Health caregivers fine-tune their approach. With an increased emphasis on therapies that are perceived to be more helpful by the patients themselves. Seeking insight into unknown conditions is the best way to ensure that evaluations of experimental data are objective to provide a more experimental condition for the evaluator. On the other hand, patient records must be linked to that patient, or the evaluation of a successful treatment program won’t be able to be connected back to their caregivers. Addressing this challenge requires data organization that is a step above with an outcome measurement tool (OMT), a powerful, yet easy to work with the assessment process.
The Outcome Measurement Tool (OMT) feature of Opus EHR fills this practice scope need. These assessments meet the Joint Commission standards requiring standardization of the survey tools. The use of outcomes to guide and improve the individual care received, and the use of data by organizations to tailor programs and services to the populations they serve has been a gamechanger in the behavioral health space. The comprehensive data provided by the OPUS OMT will not only meet the current standards of data use and protection but will evolve as those standards change to meet the needs of Behavioral Healthcare providers and patients in the future. In addition, these assessments provide a higher pay-per-performance reimbursement from the insurance company. Using the OMT feature of Opus EHR in a practice is surely a win-win.