The Intersection of Behavioral Health, Mental Health, and Health Literacy Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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While communicating in a health-literate manner is truly important for everyone, it can be especially important for those with mental or behavioral health issues and for the systems and teams that interact with them and treat these individuals. "Although it may be self-evident, embedding health-literate practices into systems requires practical and innovative applications and practical and innovative solutions," said Bernard Rosof, the chief executive officer of Quality in Health Care Advisory Group, in his opening remarks to a workshop convened by the Roundtable on Health Literacy.2 "Mental health issues and behavioral health are often not well understood by many primary care health care providers and those in the public health community, yet, many with chronic mental or behavioral health issues first access care 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the Proceed ings of a Workshop was prepared by the workshop rapporteurs as a factual summary of what occurred at this workshop.
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Chapter 2 describes the communication challenges experienced by those who have behavioral health and mental health issues. Chapter 3 provides background information on behavioral health and mental health disorders, discusses the communication challenges that these disorders create for individuals and family members, and describes the principles of health literacy and how health literacy might address some of those communication chal BOX 1-1 Statement of Task An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a 1-day public workshop that will feature invited presentations and discussion on health literacy and mental and be havioral health.
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Chapter 5 summarizes a panel discussion on future steps and Chapter 6 presents the roundtable's reflections on the key lessons learned at this workshop. In accordance with the policies of the National Academies, the workshop did not attempt to establish any conclusions or develop recommendations about needs and future directions, focusing instead on issues identified by the speakers and workshop participants.
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