Measuring Recovery from Substance Use or Mental Disorders: Workshop Summary
English
By (author): and Medicine and Sensory Sciences Board on Behavioral Board on Health Sciences Policy Cognitive Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Engineering Health and Medicine Division National Academies of Sciences
In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore options for expanding the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) behavioral health data collections to include measures of recovery from substance use and mental disorder. Participants discussed options for collecting data and producing estimates of recovery from substance use and mental disorders, including available measures and associated possible data collection mechanisms. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Table of Contents- Front Matter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Policy Context and Key Concepts
- 3 SAMHSA's Definition of Recovery
- 4 Defining and Operationalizing Recovery from Substance Use
- 5 Defining and Operationalizing Recovery from Mental Disorders
- 6 Measures of Recovery
- 7 Data Collection Designs
- 8 Key Themes and Possible Next Steps
- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
- Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Speakers
- Committee on National Statistics