Mental Health Care Executive Summary

As of this past January, we swore in President Donald Trump. The author could extensively cover all of the different presidential administrations however, that would be rather lengthy. As an alternative, we will be evaluating first mental health care under the Obama administration and evaluate some of the mental health policy developments under the Clinton administration as well as the Bush administration. During President Obama’s term as presidency he never touched mental health policy.
In a journal article written by H. H. Goldman and colleagues, he touches a little on the Clinton administration, “U.S. Surgeon General issued the first ever report on mental health” (Goldman, p. 193, 2009). This was nearly ten years prior to when the article

These goals and recommendations were to first, make sure, “Americans Understand that Mental Health is Essential to Overall Health. Recommendations, advance and implement a national campaign to reduce the stigma of seeking care and a national strategy for suicide prevention and address mental health with the same urgency as physical health” (Goldman, p. 196, Table 1, 2009).
The second goal and its recommendations were, “Mental Health Care is Consumer and Family Driven. Recommendations: Develop an individualized plan of care for every adult with a serious mental illness and child with a serious emotional disturbance, involve consumers and families fully in orienting the mental health system toward recovery, align relevant Federal programs to improve access and accountability for mental health services, create a Comprehensive State Mental Health Plan, and to protect and enhance the rights of people with mental illnesses (Goldman, p. 196, Table 1,

Recommendations: accelerate research to promote recovery and resilience, and ultimately to cure and prevent mental illnesses, advance evidence-based practices using dissemination and demonstration projects and create a public-private partnership to guide their implementation, improve and expand the workforce providing evidence-based mental health services and supports, and develop the knowledge base in four understudied areas: mental health disparities, long-term effects of medications, trauma, and acute care,” (Goldman, p. 196, Table 1,