Ed Jones, PhD

Perspectives

Care Access Merits Top Priority as a Multidimensional Goal

12/05/2022

Our field’s track record for providing access to care is dismal. Rectifying this is a complicated issue. We should endeavor to ensure access to affordable, high-quality outpatient clinicians.

Our field’s track record for...

12/05/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Add Prevention to Our Field’s Mission and Anchor It in Primary Care

08/14/2023

Ed Jones , PhD;

Behavioral healthcare has traditionally functioned as a specialty service—clinicians and programs wait for clients to present themselves for care. A preventive focus set in primary care would be proactive.

Behavioral healthcare has...

08/14/2023

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Beyond the Constraints of Categorical Thinking: Issues of Collaboration

10/25/2021

Ed Jones , PhD;

Many primary care physicians acknowledge the value of psychiatric consultations regarding psychotropic medications. However, this is only one approach to collaboration, and it is an approach that is limited.

Many primary care physicians...

10/25/2021

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Preaddiction: A New Motivational Category Warning of Disease Progression

07/18/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Thought leaders recently proposed “preaddiction” as a new concept for early dangerous use. Analogous to prediabetes, this category hopefully warns people at risk for progressing to addiction.

Thought leaders recently...

07/18/2022

Addiction Professional

Perspectives

Our Field Needs a Sharper Focus on Health Systems

02/21/2023

Ed Jones , PhD;

People increasingly receive care within health systems. The behavioral healthcare field is part of this consolidation, and we should start focusing on how health systems will be shaping the future of our field.

People increasingly receive care...

02/21/2023

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Behavioral Health Tech Products Can Function Well Without Professional Controls

11/27/2023

Ed Jones , PhD;

Many behavioral health tech products are effective without clinician oversight. Yet some argue for inserting professional controls, and consensus is lacking.

Many behavioral health tech...

11/27/2023

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Relationships Will Drive Primary Care’s Future Success

01/24/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Primary care providers and psychotherapists have patient relationships that are unique in healthcare. When they align forces, the foundation is set for unprecedented levels of patient change.

Primary care providers and...

01/24/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Blog

How Our Clinicians Can Help Fix the US Health Care System

07/28/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Ed Jones, PhD, discusses the need for a clinical refocusing that includes broad access to psychosocial solutions and ensuring socially informed clinicians can help underserved communities.

Ed Jones, PhD, discusses the...

07/28/2022

Psych Congress Network

Perspectives

Solving Our Access Problem Could Entail Giving More People Less Help

05/08/2023

Ed Jones , PhD;

Executives are not care providers, nor do they have the tools to end stigma, but they are accountable for improving access to care. However, access has been as resistant to remedies as stigma. We lack agreement on the size of the problem or...

Executives are not care...

05/08/2023

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Practitioners Hold a Healthy Dose of Skepticism Before Crossing Into the Medical World

08/17/2021

Ed Jones , PhD;

How do we address the reasonable concerns that many behavioral health practitioners have about physician attitudes and medical systems? Start by realizing we are rich with opportunities today, and tomorrow will provide a declining range of...

How do we address the reasonable...

08/17/2021

Behavioral Healthcare Executive