Mental Health Experts Advocate for New Clinical Management Approach That Dramatically Improves Patient Care

PRNewswire (Santa Ana, CA): PacifiCare Behavioral Health (PBH) and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care will host more than 300 New England behavioral health practitioners to present a compelling care management model that uses scientifically-established tools and methods to quantify the clinical results of psychotherapy. The conference, Improving Behavioral Health Care Using Outcomes Measurement, will be conducted on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at the Hilton Dedham from 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. “This conference is a call to all mental health practitioners to consider adopting a scientifically-validated yardstick to objectively measure clinical results and to use that data to inform treatment,� said Richard Weisblatt, Ph.D., vice president of network services for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. “Today's medical community is increasingly aligned with evidence-based care and this conference is intended to support a similar movement within the behavioral health community.�