Contributors' Meeting - July 2 and 3, 1998

On July 2 and 3 contributors to the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health and officials of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) met in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the outline, table of contents and assignments of the report. In attendance from SAMHSA were Nelba Chavez, Ph.D., Administrator; Bernard S. Arons, M.D., Director, and Thomas Bornemann, Ed.D., Deputy Director, Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS); CAPT Patricia Rye, JD, MSW, Managing Editor, and Howard Goldman, M.D., Scientific Editor, Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, CMHS.

The contributors discussed the focus and content of each chapter as presented in the Table of Contents and the Topic Outline. After discussion of each Chapter, revisions were made as necessary to the working topic outline and contributors were designated to write each section of the chapters. Contributors are to prepare outlines of each of their assigned sections for submission to the scientific editor by July 24 and the draft outline for each section is to be submitted by September 30. Report sections will go through a two-phase peer review process, careful editing, and clearance over the next 12-15 months before its projected release in the fall of 1999.