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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 64
  • Number 9
  • September 2013

Taking Issue

This Month's Highlights

Columns

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages828–831

Calling integrated care “the new gold standard,” the authors describe a series of initiatives by the New York State Office of Mental Health to better integrate general medical and behavioral health care. The efforts include use of a Web-based clinical ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201300197

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages832–834

The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH), which is a partner in the RAISE (Recovery After Initial Schizophrenia Episode) Connection program, is scaling up services for individuals with first-episode psychosis (FEP) and must estimate the number of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201300186

Articles

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages837–842

To better understand the dimensions of recovery, staff at two supported housing agencies invited consumers to participate in photovoice, in which people use cameras to document their daily realities and create narratives about them to promote dialog and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200503

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages843–849

Criminal justice liaison and diversion (CJLD) services, such as mental health courts, are designed to identify offenders with mental disorders and link them to appropriate community services. But are they effective? A literature review of the best ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200144

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages850–855

Objective This randomized controlled trial studied whether seclusion and restraint could be prevented in the psychiatric care of persons with schizophrenia without an increase of violence. Methods Over the course of a year, 13 wards of a secured national ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200393

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages856–862

Objective This study examined whether possession of psychotropic medication and receipt of outpatient services reduce the likelihood of posthospitalization arrest among adults with serious mental illness. A secondary aim was to compare service system costs ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200406

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages863–870

Objective The study explored mental health service use patterns and barriers to care among individuals with comorbid mental and substance use disorders. Methods Using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2005–2010) for 18,972 adults with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200289

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages871–877

Objectives The relationship between perceived need for mental health treatment, reasons for not receiving care, substance use, and race and gender among young adults was examined to identify barriers to mental health care. Methods Data from the 2010 National ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200159

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages878–885

Objective This study was conducted to examine whether medication continuity among Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder was associated with medication utilization management practices (prior authorization, copayment amounts, and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200349

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages886–892

Objective The authors explored the relationship between critical elements of medication management appointments (appointment length, patient-centered talk, and positive nonverbal affect among providers) and patient appointment adherence. Methods The authors ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200416

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages901–907

Objective The objective was to identify individual or contextual inequalities in visits to psychiatrists in Spain, a country with a regionalized health care system and variable integration of mental health and primary care. Methods This cross-sectional study ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100419

Open Forum

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages908–910

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is promoting formation of accountable care organizations (ACOs). In these population-based models, CMS aligns a Medicare beneficiary population to an ACO with associated expenditure and quality targets, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200330

Brief Reports

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages911–914

Objectives Programs that use the Housing First model are being implemented throughout the United States and internationally. The authors describe the development and validation of a Housing First fidelity survey. Methods A 46-item survey was developed to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200500

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages915–917

Objective The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of a transitional case management (TCM) program targeted to individuals with mental disorders and multiple arrests for misdemeanor offenses. Methods The sample included 178 individuals who were ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200190

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages918–920

Objective People with severe mental illness are vulnerable to having other people directly take or misappropriate their disability payments. This study investigated the prevalence of different types of financial victimization and the client characteristics ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.005882012

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages921–924

Objective This study examined the diagnostic patterns for individuals presenting with a complaint of anger. Methods The study examined the rates of psychiatric diagnoses in a nationally representative sample of visits (N=1,005,628) to outpatient medical ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200329

Publication date: 01 September 2013

Pages925–928

Objective Given high rates of co-occurring mental and substance use disorders among homeless youths and poorly understood facilitators of and barriers to service use, this study explored factors influencing service use among homeless youths with co-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200257

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