It has provided and rolled out a set of psychiatric management guidelines for doctors treating certain mental disorders within Texas' publicly funded mental health care system, along with manuals relating to each of them The algorithms commence after diagnosis and cover pharmacological treatment (hence "Medication Algorithm").
The research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Meadows Foundation, the Lightner-Sams Foundation, the Nanny Hogan Boyd Charitable Trust, TDMHMR, the Center for Mental Health Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Health Services Research and Development Research Career Scientist Award, the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention Inc. and Mental Health Connections.
[2] In 2004, TMAP was mentioned as an example of a successful project in a paper regarding implementing mental health screening programs throughout the United States, by President George W. Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which looks to expand the program federally.
The President had previously been Governor of Texas, in the period when TMAP was implemented.
Similar programs have been implemented in about a dozen States, according to a 2004 report in the British Medical Journal.