Continuum of Treatment

• Disruptions in mental health

• Difficulty in daily living

• Varying levels of distress

• Mental health is impacted by

• Health disparities

• Stigma

• Lack of knowledge

• Lack of awareness

• Five Zones of Mental Health Continuum

• Well-being, excelling, thriving, surviving, struggling, crisis, mental illness

• Mental Health Continuum Self-Check Tool

• Well-being, healthy, reacting, injured, ill, mental illness

• Mental Health Continuum and Mental Health Care Settings: outpatient

• Primary care providers

• Outpatient mental health clinic

• Case management

• Home-based services:  Assertive Community Treatment 

• Telehealth

• Mobile mental health crisis teams

• Day treatment

• Family services

• Peer services 

• Mental Health Continuum and Mental Health Care Settings inpatient

• Crisis stabilization beds

• Community-based hospital facilities

• State hospital facilities 

• Transitional or respite facilities

• Long-term facilities

• Substance use disorder treatment centers

  • Detoxification

  • Acute residential treatment

• Mental Health Continuum and Mental Health Care Settings Specialty care and treatment

• Military veteran care

• Pediatric and adolescent care

• Geriatric care

• Forensic care

• Availability of Mental Health Care and Treatment

• Lack of mental health workforce

  • Mental health providers

  • Interprofessional

• Access to mental health services

• Lack of services