Policy Analysis and Critique

According to Happell et al. (2011), there are two broad divisions of policy impact, including intended and unintended effects. The intended impacts of a particular policy vary extensively, depending on the organization and the policy context. They are enacted to barricade misgivings noticed in a particular organization. Hence, they provide beneficial protocols to the organization. The mental health recovery policy is an example of a policy that tends to avoid negativity in the mental health care division. On the other hand, the unintended impacts of the policy describe the side effects of the policy. Since policies are meant to govern an intricate adaptive system, slight changes in the policy affect existing structures by yielding counterintuitive impacts (Edgley, Stickley, Wright, & Repper, 2012). For example, changes in the mental health care recovery policy may influence the tax charged on hospital bills. Moreover, it may scare away patients due to augmented hospital costs.

For that reason, in the formulation of a given policy, senior officials have to analyze the impacts of the policy implementation process. This is important to ensure that the policy produces intended impacts rather than unintended ones. Additionally, this process reduces the chance of yielding unintended impacts. Mental health care systems tend to have intricate adaptive systems that require scrutiny of the policies before implementation (Mckechnie, 2013). The policy impact represents the initial step in the formulation of any given policy, especially in the mental health care system. However, there are four main procedures followed in the formulation of a given mental health care policy; particularly, the national mental health recovery policy. The four ste...

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