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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 63
  • Number 3
  • March 2012

Taking Issue

This Month's Highlights

Columns

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages202–204

The FDA, the APA, and the American Diabetes Association have called for routine monitoring of cardiometabolic side effects among individuals taking second-generation antipsychotic medications. Yet, monitoring of these patients by state mental health ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20120p202

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages205–207

This column describes a process for adapting an evidence-based practice in community clinics in which researchers and community providers participated and the resulting framework for implementation of the practice—Replicating Effective Programs-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200032

Articles

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages209–215

A commitment to ending homelessness was the impetus behind a federal initiative that funded five demonstration projects for people with mental illness and chronic homelessness. The projects combined two evidence-based practices—supported employment and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100100

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages216–222

Objectives: Specialized early intervention by a team providing assertive community treatment (ACT) is beneficial to the recovery, housing, and employment of individuals with schizophrenia, but few studies have examined its effect on social support. This ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20110013

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages223–229

Provision of time-unlimited services is a central principle of assertive community treatment (ACT). However, when ACT was created, few alternative community-based services existed for people with serious mental illness. In New York State, which has ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100041

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages230–236

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess receipt of obesity care by patients with and without mental illness. Methods: The sample consisted of 254,051 obese primary care patients surviving through fiscal year (FY) 2006. Administrative data for ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100221

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages237–242

Objective: Whether access to primary and specialist care has an impact on treatment for people with schizophrenia and comorbid cardiac disease is unclear. The objective of this study was to compare use of general health care and specialized cardiac care by ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201000363

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages243–249

Objective: African Americans underutilize traditional mental health services, compared with white Americans. The authors conducted a systematic review of studies involving church-based health promotion programs for mental disorders among African Americans ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100216

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages250–255

Objective: Maternal depression is linked to poor infant and child outcome. In 2001, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration required all Healthy Start programs to incorporate maternal-depression screening as part of home visiting services. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100247

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages256–261

Objective: The objective was to determine whether transitioning from paper to electronic health records affected behavioral health screening rates in a large Northeastern pediatric practice. Methods: The study setting was a pediatric practice with seven ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100207

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages262–269

Objective: Prior studies have shown a significant but modest association between mental disorders and violence and an increased risk in the presence of co-occurring substance use disorders. Categorical diagnoses, however, have limited utility when ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100354

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages270–275

The concept of the “right to health,” regardless of a person's legal status, is a guiding force in establishing adequate standards of health care for all, including prisoners with mental illness. Prison health care in the United States, however, often ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100256

Open Forum

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages277–279

Treatment grounded in recovery principles is often viewed as not being based on the “medical model.” In this Open Forum the author asserts that recovery from mental illness is entirely compatible with concepts of recovery from medical illness and with new ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100248

Brief Reports

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages280–282

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the external validity of hospitalization as an outcome measure for first-episode psychosis services. Methods: A two-year, prospective cohort design was used to examine the associations between ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100118

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages283–286

Objective: This study identified characteristics of adult psychiatric patients who remained for 24 or more hours in the emergency departments of general hospitals in Massachusetts. Methods: Data were collected starting in June 2008 on a prospective cohort ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201000563

Publication date: 01 March 2012

Pages287–290

Objective: This study identified predictors of emergency department use by persons with intellectual disability during psychiatric crises. Methods: Data were analyzed for 576 adults with intellectual disability who were living in three urban centers in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100124

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