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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 66
  • Number 7
  • July 2015

This Month’s Highlights

Special Section: RAISE and Other Early Intervention Services

Taking Issue

Publication date: 15 April 2015

Pages699–704

Objective: This study assessed factors that facilitated or impeded clients’ engagement in services offered by the Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) Connection Program for youths and young adults experiencing early psychosis. It was ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400475

Publication date: 02 February 2015

Pages705–712

Objective: This study sought to determine the effectiveness of a comprehensive first-episode service, the clinic for Specialized Treatment Early in Psychosis (STEP), in an urban U.S. community mental health center by comparing it with usual treatment. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400236

Publication date: 31 March 2015

Pages757–759

Objective: The study compared engagement in treatment and medication adherence of immigrants and nonimmigrants in early intervention services for persons with first-episode psychosis. Methods: This two-year longitudinal prospective cohort study recruited ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201300284

Special Section: RAISE and Other Early Intervention Services

Research & Services Partnerships

Publication date: 02 January 2015

Pages671–673

The RAISE (Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode) Connection Program was a partnership that involved state mental health authorities (SMHAs) in Maryland and New York with research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health. The SMHAs ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400117

Special Section: RAISE and Other Early Intervention Services

Best Practices

Publication date: 02 January 2015

Pages674–676

Mental health programs can address many components of fidelity with routinely available data. Information from client interviews can be used to corroborate these administrative data. This column describes a practical approach to measuring fidelity that ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400531

Special Section: RAISE and Other Early Intervention Services

Economic Grand Rounds

Publication date: 01 December 2014

Pages677–679

Widespread dissemination of early interventions for psychosis, such as the intervention offered in the RAISE study (Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode), requires a funding mechanism that is both compatible with approaches already used by ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400076

Articles

Publication date: 31 March 2015

Pages713–718

Objective: The ongoing transition from use of mostly branded to mostly generic second-generation antipsychotic medications could bring about a substantial reduction in Medicaid expenditures for antipsychotic medications, a change with critical implications ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400042

Publication date: 16 March 2015

Pages719–726

Objective: The objective of this study was to quantify patients’ preferences related to benefits and risks of antipsychotic treatments for schizophrenia and to assess the relative importance of treatment attributes and adherence. Methods: Treatment-related ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400188

Publication date: 16 March 2015

Pages727–733

Objectives: The association of general medical illness and mental health service use among older adults from racial-ethnic minority groups is an important area of study given the disparities in mental health and general medical services and the low use of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400246

Publication date: 31 March 2015

Pages734–742

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine influences on the sustainability of a program to implement an evidence-based psychotherapy in a mental health system. Methods: Interviews with program administrators, training consultants, agency ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400147

Publication date: 15 April 2015

Pages743–749

Objective: Empirical efforts to measure use of mental health services among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) older adults have been notably lacking. Thus this study assessed associations between sexual orientation and mental health service use among older ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400488

Brief Reports

Publication date: 31 March 2015

Pages760–763

Objective: Two surveys were conducted on the crisis intervention team (CIT) model, a police-based program designed to improve responses to individuals with mental illnesses. Methods: Data were collected between July and September 2013 from 171 police chiefs ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201300451

Open Forum

Publication date: 16 March 2015

Pages750–752

The concept of “recovery” in the context of treating mental illness—including serious mental illness—has been recognized as a central guiding principle for the orientation of behavioral health systems, including the delivery of effective treatment and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400310

Law & Psychiatry

Publication date: 01 July 2015

Pages668–670

“Boarding” involuntary psychiatric patients in medical emergency rooms is common in many parts of the United States. The practice, driven by a shortage of alternative resources, including limited inpatient capacity, can result in patients’ being held for ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.660707

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