Psychiatric Services

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Publication date: 01 January 2015

For people with serious mental illness, research demonstrates the potential positive effects of having an advance directive with specific instructions for mental health care. The Commonwealth of Virginia has undertaken efforts to incorporate the ...

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Objective: The goal of this study was to document the use of 16 treatment modalities reported by 290 patients with borderline personality disorder and 72 patients with other axis II disorders over 16 years of prospective follow-up. Methods: This study built ...

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Objective: Few continuing education programs to train behavioral health professionals to deliver tobacco treatment services have been described and evaluated. Methods: The effectiveness of two-day training on changing practice was examined by review of ...

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Objective: The complex needs of homeless populations result in use of a wide range of services and high costs for housing programs and psychiatric and general medical care. Allocation of resources often is not congruent with assessed needs. A series of ...

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Objective: This study examined age-related differences in general medical and mental health risk factors for veterans participating in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Grant Per Diem (GPD) transitional supportive housing program. The ...

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Objective: The study tested whether adolescents receiving substance abuse treatment at facilities offering full (can treat all psychiatric conditions) or partial (cannot treat severe or persistent mental illness) mental health services have better 12-month ...

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Objective: This study examined the association between language access programming and quality of psychiatric care received by persons with limited English proficiency (LEP). Methods: In 1999, the California Department of Mental Health required county ...

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Objective: This study examined variation in mental health service use among U.S. Latinos by place of origin and service provider type. Methods: Data were obtained from the National Latino and Asian American Study. The sample for this study consisted of 2,533 ...

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Objective: Despite continued outreach efforts, levels of mental health care utilization for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remain low. As such, it is important to identify factors that may promote or discourage treatment engagement. This study was ...

Publication date: 01 January 2015

Objective: Co-occurring mental and substance use disorders are associated with worse outcomes than a single disorder alone. In this exploratory subgroup analysis of a randomized trial, the authors hypothesized that providing chronic care management (CCM) ...

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Objective: Animal-assisted therapy (AAT), most frequently used with dogs, is being used increasingly as an adjunctive alternative treatment for psychiatric patients. AAT with larger animals, such as horses, may have unique benefits. In this randomized ...

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Objective: This study compared effectiveness of an enhanced versus standard implementation strategy (Replicating Effective Programs [REP]) on site-level uptake of Re-Engage, a national program for veterans with serious mental illness. Methods: Mental health ...

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Objectives: The study examined availability of psychiatrists for outpatient appointments in three U.S. cities. Methods: Posing as patients, investigators called 360 psychiatrists listed in a major insurer’s database in Boston, Houston, and Chicago (N=120 per ...

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Objective: Previous research has documented the feasibility of screening in emergency departments for adolescent suicide risk. This randomized trial examined the effectiveness of Teen Options for Change (TOC), an intervention for adolescents seeking ...

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Objective: This study assessed associations between staffing of a collaborative care program for depression and enrollment in the program and remission rates. Methods: Data were collected from depression care registries at 63 primary care clinics that ...

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A service dog is defined as “any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.” Some psychiatric ...

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Virginia appears to be the first state to commit itself to statewide implementation of psychiatric advance directives, and its experience may be highly instructive for other states. The project began with consensus building among stakeholders (2007–2009), ...

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This column focuses on use of learning collaboratives by the Center for Practice Innovations to help programs implement the evidence-based individual placement and support model of supported employment in New York State. These learning collaboratives use ...

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Publication date: 01 January 2015