Open AccessTraveling Without a Map: An Incomplete History of the Road to Implementation Science and Where We May Go from Here
Author(s) -
David S. Mandell
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
administration and policy in mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1573-3289
pISSN - 0894-587X
DOI - 10.1007/s10488-020-01013-6
Subject(s) - mental health , field (mathematics) , scale (ratio) , state (computer science) , administration (probate law) , public relations , psychology , data science , political science , sociology , history , computer science , psychiatry , geography , law , cartography , mathematics , algorithm , pure mathematics
This editorial provides a brief history of mental health services research over the last 30 years and how findings from large-scale studies shocked the field and led to the lines of inquiry culminating in current implementation science research. I review the manuscripts published in this special issue of Administration and Policy in Mental Health in light of that history and usethese studies as a way to assess the state of the field. Finally, I present five takeaways extracted from these articles that may be useful in considering future directions for implementation research.