In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore options for expanding the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) behavioral health data collections to include measures of recovery from substance use and mental disorder. Participants discussed options for collecting data and producing estimates of recovery from substance use and mental disorders, including available measures and associated possible data collection mechanisms. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Contents

• The National Academies of SCIENCES · ENGINEERING · MEDICINE
• STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE WORKSHOP ON INTEGRATING NEW MEASURES OF RECOVERY FROM SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL DISORDERS INTO THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION’S DATA COLLECTION PROGRAMS
• COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS
• BOARD ON BEHAVIORAL, COGNITIVE, AND SENSORY SCIENCES
• BOARD ON HEALTH SCIENCES POLICY
• Acknowledgment of Reviewers
• 1. Introduction
  • BACKGROUND
  • WORKSHOP FOCUS
  • WORKSHOP CHARGE
  • ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT
• 2. Policy Context and Key Concepts
  • POLICY CONTEXT OF MEASURING RECOVERY FROM SUBSTANCE USE
  • POLICY CONTEXT OF MEASURING RECOVERY FROM MENTAL DISORDERS
• 3. SAMHSA’s Definition of Recovery
• 4. Defining and Operationalizing Recovery from Substance Use
  • DEFINITIONS OF RECOVERY FROM SUBSTANCE USE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MEASUREMENT
  • THE MEANING OF RECOVERY FOR THOSE WHO SELF-IDENTIFY AS “IN RECOVERY” FROM SUBSTANCE USE
• 5. Defining and Operationalizing Recovery from Mental Disorders
  • DEFINITIONS OF RECOVERY FROM MENTAL DISORDERS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MEASUREMENT
  • THE ROLE OF POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH IN OPERATIONALIZING RECOVERY
• 6. Measures of Recovery
  • MEASURES OF RECOVERY FROM SUBSTANCE USE
  • MEASURES OF RECOVERY FROM MENTAL DISORDERS
• 7. Data Collection Designs
  • SAMHSA’S RECOVERY MEASUREMENT PILOT STUDY
  • TRADEOFFS OF DIFFERENT DATA COLLECTION DESIGNS
• 8. Key Themes and Possible Next Steps
• APPENDIXES
  • Appendix A. Workshop Agenda
  • Appendix B. Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Speakers
• COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS

Rapporteur: Krisztina Marton.

Suggested citation:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2016). Measuring Recovery from Substance Use or Mental Disorders: Workshop Summary. K. Marton, Rapporteur. Committee on National Statistics and Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Board on Health Sciences Policy, Health and Medicine Division. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23589.