Discusses the present human resource dilemma facing mental health administrators in these times: the problem of doing more with less, using a weary and beleaguered staff. Addresses possible leadership strategies that will carry the field into the future, beyond the day-to-day concern for immediate survival. Discusses how future leaders in field…

Discusses these changes in mental health care: patient needs and service utilization; purchasers of care; changing attitudes toward health care; relief or palliation of symptoms; performing life tasks and meeting role requirements; security, protection, and sustenance; and personal potential, satisfaction, and happiness. Concludes changes will…

Presents overview of four discussion groups' reactions to White's "Critical Issue Paper 3: Human Resource Development: The Future Through People." Topics discussed include personal leadership style and changes in the mental health field; changing health care and implications for administrators; intraorganizational focus, leader role, and processes…

Presents summaries of four group discussions on topics raised by Broskowski's paper "Critical Issue Paper 1: Goldfields and Minefields: Changing Management Technologies and Resources." Outlines ideas and recommendations that arose as common themes from the discussions in these areas: preprofessional training, inservice training needs, technical…

Discusses these trends in mental health services: cost control and financial retrenchment, policy influence and funding, shift of long-term care responsibility, expansion of private health care market interest, and change in characteristics of mentally ill. Recommends information enhancements, market potentials, alternative organizational…

Presents overall summary of the 1986 State-of-the-Art Symposium on Mental Health Administration whose papers and summaries of group discussions are presented previously in this journal. Presents list of 10 topics in contemporary mental health administration which were highlighted. Lists five recommendations made by conferees related to research,…

Discusses relationship of technology to strategic planning, intraorganizational skills, interorganizational skills, and financial management skills needed in future for mental health administrators. Contends future administrators must take responsibilities seriously and invest in maintaining technical skills and advances in contemporary business…

Identifies factors mental health executives (N=131) see as important barriers to their planning efforts. These executives can best be aided in their planning by actions which will clarify planning domains, insure that appropriate power and authority is vested in the executive, and emphasize planning efforts in innovative areas. (Author/JAC)