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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 62
  • Number 2
  • February 2011

Taking Issue

Features

Columns

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages120–122

The Jail Inreach Project is a health care-based intensive case management “inreach” program that engages incarcerated persons from the homeless population who have behavioral health disorders (mental illness, substance use disorder, or both) in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0120

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages123–125

Objective: The authors describe characteristics and capacities of mental health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Methods: The World Health Organization Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems was used to assess services in 42 countries (...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0123

Articles

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages129–134

Objective: This study examined the impact of insurance parity on the use, cost, and quality of substance abuse treatment. Methods: The authors compared substance abuse treatment spending and utilization from 1999 to 2002 for continuously enrolled ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0129

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages135–142

Objective: Although military personnel are at high risk of mental health problems, research findings indicate that many military personnel and veterans do not seek needed mental health care. Thus it is critical to identify factors that interfere with the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0135

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages152–161

Objective: This study described use of services for a major depressive episode and determined factors associated with use in Spain, a country with universal access to care and a relatively low prevalence of depression. Methods: Data were from the European ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0152

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages162–170

Objective: This study assessed longer-term outcomes of low-income patients with cancer (predominantly female and Hispanic) after treatment in a collaborative model of depression care or in enhanced usual care. Methods: The randomized controlled trial, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0162

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages171–178

Objective: Recent clinical and policy trends have favored low-demand housing (provision of housing not contingent on alcohol and drug abstinence) in assisting chronically homeless people. This study compared housing, clinical, and service use outcomes of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0171

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages179–185

Objective: Capitated Medicaid mental health programs have reduced costs over the short term by lowering the utilization of high-cost inpatient services. This study examined the five-year effects of capitated financing in community mental health centers (...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0179

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages186–193

Objective: This study examined the association between a Medicaid prior-authorization policy for second-generation antipsychotic and anticonvulsant agents and medication discontinuation and health service use by patients with bipolar disorder. Methods: A ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0186

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages194–199

Objective: This study examined the relationship between the availability of mental health outpatient services provided by 40 publicly funded community service boards (CSBs) and the use of inpatient mental health treatment among Medicaid recipients. Methods:...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0194

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages200–205

Objective: Deinstitutionalization is an ongoing process, as many jurisdictions continue to struggle with redesigning their psychiatric systems. Historically, reducing psychiatric beds and closing hospitals have resulted in deleterious outcomes for people ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0200

Open Forum

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages206–209

Driven by financial pressures, the sole focus of psychiatric inpatient treatment has become safety and crisis stabilization. Data are lacking on outcomes of ultrashort-stay hospitalizations; however, such stays may diminish opportunities for a sustained ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0206

Brief Reports

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages210–213

Objective: The study examined whether data collected by researchers who were service users differed from data collected by non-service user researchers in a study that measured perceived coercion. Methods: Over two years, 548 inpatients in England were ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0210

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages214–217

Objective: Staff burnout is a frequent problem for mental health providers and may be associated with negative outcomes for providers, consumers, and organizations. This study tested an intervention to reduce staff burnout. Methods: Community mental health ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0214

Publication date: 01 February 2011

Pages218–220

Objective: Valproate is associated with polycystic ovary syndrome as well as congenital malformations and developmental delays of infants who were prenatally exposed. The frequency of valproate use for mental health conditions among women of childbearing ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.2.pss6202_0218

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