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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 64
  • Number 5
  • May 2013

Book Reviews

Taking Issue

This Month's Highlights

Columns

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages407–409

The Practice Research Network (PRN) in Maryland, funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, extends the historically close collaborative relationship between the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland and the Maryland ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201300015

Articles

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages410–415

When assessing an individual's risk of behaving violently, clinicians should consider asking the person who may know best. In this study, clinicians interviewed inpatients who had co-occurring disorders and who were considered to pose a high risk of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.001312012

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages423–430

Objective Attainment of safe, calm inpatient psychiatric wards that are conducive to positive therapeutic care is crucial. On such wards, rates of coerced medication, seclusion, manual restraint and other types of containment are comparatively low, and, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200328

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages431–436

Individuals with severe mental disorders who do not adhere to community-based treatments are often subject to pressures to leverage participation, including pressures related to the criminal justice system, housing, and money. In this study, researchers ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200368

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages437–444

Assertive community treatment (ACT) is associated with an array of positive outcomes for people with serious mental illness, but reducing arrest and incarceration is not one of them. To gain a better understanding of the failure of traditional ACT models ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200170

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages445–451

Objectives Assertive community treatment (ACT) programs may improve patients’ outcomes, in part by increasing adherence to antipsychotic medication. This study assessed the association between ACT enrollment and subsequent antipsychotic adherence. Methods ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100543

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages452–457

Objective The purpose of this study was to identify essential evidence-based components of first-episode psychosis services. Methods The study was conducted in two stages. In the first stage a systematic review of both peer-reviewed and gray literature (...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200156

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages458–465

Objective This study examined changes in the prevalence of daily tobacco use in the United States between 1991–1992 and 2004–2005 by sociodemographic characteristics and psychiatric disorders. Methods Secondary analyses were performed using data from the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.002852012

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages466–471

Objective Numerous articles have identified that medical technologies diffuse more rapidly among non-Latino whites compared with other racial-ethnic groups. However, whether health risk warnings also diffuse differentially across racial-ethnic minority ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200087

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages472–478

Objective Family involvement and social support are associated with recovery from mental disorders. This project explored how family involvement in health care and social support among depressed veterans in primary care related to medication adherence and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200160

Open Forum

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages479–482

Mental disorders affect many young Canadians, and most do not access care, partly because of lack of health policy–driven programs and services. Recognizing this policy need, the Child and Youth Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100269

Brief Reports

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages483–486

Objective School programs provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP) were reviewed to describe program characteristics, costs, and ratings of research and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.000502012

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages487–490

Objective This study examined effectiveness of collaborative care for depression among Asians treated either at a community health center that focuses on Asians (culturally sensitive clinic) or at general community health centers and among a matched ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.001742012

Publication date: 01 May 2013

Pages491–493

Objective The authors describe outcomes of a targeted case and care management program for persons with addictions utilizing a high level of acute services in Connecticut’s system of care. Methods Administrative and cost data were analyzed from five ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200258

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