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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 62
  • Number 5
  • May 2011

Taking Issue

This Month's Highlights

Columns

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages456–458

Wellness Self-Management (WSM) is a recovery-oriented, curriculum-based practice designed to help adults with serious mental health problems make informed decisions and take action to manage symptoms and improve their quality of life. WSM is an adaptation ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0456

Articles

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages465–470

Objective: This study systematically examined the empirical literature on the themes and correlates of coercion as defined by the subjective experience of patients in psychiatric care. Methods: The study was a systematic review of the literature on coercion ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0465

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages471–476

Objective: Increasing patient autonomy and decreasing coercion are frequently cited goals in mental health care. Research suggests that the therapeutic relationship and patients' experiences of coercion may be associated. This study investigated the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0471

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages492–497

Objective: Use of restraint in acute psychiatric wards is highly controversial. Knowledge is limited about the characteristics of patients who are restrained and the predictors of use of restraint. This study examined whether restrained patients differed ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0492

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages498–503

Objective: The authors constructed an explanatory model of factors contributing to the decision to use seclusion. Methods: Experts helped develop 64 vignettes that manipulated multiple patient and environmental variables. Eighty-two mental health ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0498

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages504–508

Objective: This study examined whether assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) under New York's “Kendra's Law” is associated with reduced arrests for violent and nonviolent offenses. Methods: Arrest records of 183 study participants attending outpatient clinics ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0504

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages509–515

Objective: Illness management and recovery is a structured program that helps consumers with severe mental illness learn effective ways to manage illness and pursue recovery goals. This study examined the impact of the program on health service ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0509

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages516–524

Objective: Gender disparities in mental health highlight the need to include gender equity measures when planning, implementing, and evaluating mental health programs at national, state or provincial, and municipal levels. This study aimed to identify, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0516

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages525–531

Objectives: Data are limited on how clinicians contribute to outcome differences between black patients and white patients. Because the clinician-patient relationship is the foundation of mental health services, understanding clinicians' role in outcome ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0525

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages532–537

Objective: The authors hypothesized that the depression treatment preferences of elderly home care patients would vary by their experience of depression and that preferences for active treatment would be associated with current depression and with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0532

Brief Reports

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages538–540

Objectives: This study estimated the prevalence of diagnosed depression among elderly Medicare fee-for-service home health patients and identified demographic, functional, and care utilization characteristics associated with the diagnosis. Methods: Data ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0538

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages541–544

Objective: The study examined the feasibility and effectiveness of using peer support to reduce recurrent psychiatric hospitalizations. Methods: A randomized controlled design was used, with follow-up at nine months after an index discharge from an ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0541

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages545–547

Objective: People with serious mental illnesses and co-occurring substance use disorders are often excluded from vocational services, despite the lack of evidence that having a substance use disorder prevents them from being able to work. This study ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0545

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages548–550

Objective: This study explored how caregivers of young adults who had experienced a first episode of psychosis coped with stigma while maintaining their caregiving role. Methods: Qualitative interviews were undertaken with 20 caregivers in Melbourne, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0548

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages551–553

Objective: The study attempted to quantify the effect of receiving a disability pension check at the beginning of the month on the timing of substance-related hospitalizations in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities. Methods: All substance-related ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0551

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages554–557

Objective: This study examined whether veterans with serious mental illness in mental health settings with colocated general medical care had fewer hospitalizations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions than veterans in other settings. Methods: Using ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0554

Publication date: 01 May 2011

Pages558–560

Objective: Given psychiatry's need to implement measurement-based care, the study examined whether direct-care staff could reliably administer brief positive and negative symptom instruments to track symptom changes and inform clinical decision making. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0558

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