Improving Mental Health Guardianship: From Prevention to Treatment.
Amy L ShearerElizabeth BromleyCurley BondsConnie DraxlerDmitry KhodyakovPublished in: Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) (2021)
Opportunities exist to improve all stages of the mental health guardianship process. Experts favored strategies that streamline administrative processes, facilitate community integration into treatment, and ensure fidelity to best practices. Improving the mental health guardianship process has the potential to speed up delivery of services, better manage resources, and increase access to treatment for individuals with mental illness who are gravely disabled.