ABSTRACT
Unlike most other countries, the US does not have a national mental health system or any one federal entity that is responsible for overseeing the delivery of mental health services. Rather, the patchwork of services for mental disorders in the US is a de facto system of care made up of a range of financing mechanisms, patient populations, and sectors (Regier, Goldberg, & Taube, 1978; Regier, Narrow, Rae, Manderscheid, Locke, & Goodwin, 1993).
