The Affordable Care Act and Integrated Behavioural Health Care

Dr. Ford H. Kuramoto, LCSW has over 30 years of experience in public health research and policy and health and behavioural health services integration field. He worked and consulted with NIMH, UCLA School of Medicine, White House National Drug Control Policy, and SAMHSA. He is the President of Magna Systems, Incorporated. Dr. Francis K. Yuen is a Social Work Professor at California State University, Sacramento, USA. He has published widely and served as the editor for the Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation since 2003. He has been a principal investigator, evaluator, and trainer for national and local service organizations.

Preface: Affordable Care Act: A comprehensive and integrated approach to health care 1. Full Immersion in the Mainstream: How Years of Promise for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Came to Fruition with the ACA 2. Lessons Learned from a Maryland Citizen’s Advocacy Group’s Experience in Impacting Health Reform: The Seven C’s of Effective Citizen Advocacy 3. Behavioral Health Parity and the Affordable Care Act 4. Affordable Care Act and Integrated Care 5. The Affordable Care Act: Overview and Implications for County and City Behavioral Health and Intellectual/Developmental Disability Programs 6. State Olmstead Litigation and the ACA 7. The Affordable Care Act for Behavioral Health Consumers and Families 8. Women’s Health and Behavioral Health Issues in Health Care Reform 9. The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Health and Behavioral Health of Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities 10. Overview of the Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Military and Veteran Mental Health Services: Nine Implications for Significant Improvements in Care