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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 71
  • Number 7
  • July 2020

Taking Issue

Articles

Publication date: 08 April 2020

Pages648–655

Objective:Studies have shown that Housing First, a recovery-oriented housing intervention, is effective in reducing service utilization among homeless individuals with mental illness, but less is known about how Housing First affects patterns of service ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900260

Publication date: 26 March 2020

Pages656–662

Objective:Research has suggested that increased length of mandated community treatment for individuals with a serious mental disorder leads to better outcomes, but few studies have described whether these outcomes are maintained after treatment ends. The ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900456

Publication date: 02 April 2020

Pages663–669

Objective:The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to describe racial-ethnic disparities in receipt of depression treatment and treatment modality among adult Medicaid beneficiaries with depression from a nationally representative sample—28 states ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900407

Publication date: 12 May 2020

Pages670–677

Objective:The Veterans Metrics Initiative is a longitudinal survey study examining the military-to-civilian transition of a cohort of new post-9/11 veterans. This study identified the programs and services used by new post-9/11 veterans who screened ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900326

Publication date: 22 May 2020

Pages684–690

Objective:Expanding access to addiction screening and treatment in primary care, particularly in underserved communities, is a key part of the fight against the opioid epidemic. This study explored correlates of addiction treatment capacity in federally ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900409

Reviews & Overviews

Publication date: 02 April 2020

Pages691–697

Many mental health and justice professionals have noted that the system that manages both competence to stand trial (CST) evaluation and competence restoration (CR) processes in criminal cases is in crisis. Public mental health services often are ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900483

Publication date: 02 April 2020

Pages698–705

The sequential intercept model (SIM) is used to reduce the penetration of persons with mental illness and substance use disorders in the criminal legal system. Its framework recommends identifying individuals with mental illness at various decision points ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900484

Special Articles

Publication date: 19 March 2020

Pages706–712

Psychoactive medications are the most expensive and fastest-growing class of pharmaceutical agents for children. The cost, side effects, and unprecedented growth rate at which these drugs are prescribed have raised alarms from health care clinicians, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900417

Publication date: 23 April 2020

Pages713–721

The authors make the case for expanding the national discussion of inpatient psychiatric beds to recognize and incorporate other vital components of the continuum of care in order to improve outcomes for individuals with serious mental illness. They ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900516

Brief Reports

Publication date: 24 February 2020

Pages722–725

Objective:This study evaluated whether access to and engagement in substance use disorder treatment has improved from 2010 to 2016.Methods:Data submitted by commercial and Medicaid health plans, representing over 163 million beneficiaries from 2010 to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201800461

Publication date: 10 March 2020

Pages726–729

Objective:People with serious mental illness in the United States have higher human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection rates than the general U.S. population. This study aimed to assess delivery of HIV services in New York State’s outpatient mental ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900415

Open Forum

Publication date: 19 March 2020

Pages735–737

Contact-based interventions are commonly regarded as best practice in stigma reduction. In this Open Forum, the author used the findings from eight systematic reviews to critically evaluate the quality of the evidence for the effectiveness of such ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900587

Commentary

Personal Accounts

Law & Psychiatry

Publication date: 22 May 2020

Pages741–744

Civil commitment ranks among the most contentious and coercive elements of mental health care. Although civil commitment is practiced across the United States, basic statistics about these policies, such as the numbers of involuntary psychiatric ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000212

Social Determinants of Mental Health

Publication date: 19 March 2020

Pages745–748

Employment has the potential to contribute to positive health outcomes for people with serious mental illnesses; however, its flipside, long-term unemployment, is a social determinant that has not been consistently recognized for its negative effects. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900522

Technology in Mental Health

Publication date: 28 May 2020

Pages749–752

In anticipation of a surge of COVID-19 cases in Northern California, the outpatient psychiatric clinic at UC Davis Health, in which 98% of visits initially occurred in person, was converted to a telepsychiatry clinic, with all visits changed to virtual ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000230

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