Psychiatric Services

Publication date: 01 July 2021

Publication date: 11 May 2021

Publication date: 11 May 2021

Objective: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for major depressive disorder; yet, its use is confined to <1% of individuals with this disorder. The authors aimed to examine barriers to ECT from the perspective of the provider. ...

Publication date: 23 April 2021

Objective: Acetaminophen is a common cause of intentional and inadvertent overdoses among children and adolescents worldwide. Little is known about characteristics and clinical outcomes of these youths. The primary goal of this naturalistic study was to ...

Publication date: 04 May 2021

Objective: The aim was to examine the impact of receipt of mental health services on health care expenditures for U.S. adults with major chronic physical conditions. Methods: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data for 2004–2014 were analyzed for adults ...

Publication date: 21 May 2021

Objective: Previous studies indicate that patients’ satisfaction with mental health care is correlated with both treatment outcomes and quality of life. The aims of this study were to describe online reviews of mental health treatment facilities, ...

Publication date: 07 May 2021

Objective: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be a chronic and disabling illness with a lifetime prevalence of 2%, twice that of schizophrenia. Although effective treatments exist, OCD often remains underdetected and undertreated. Methods: The ...

Publication date: 04 May 2021

Although approximately 20% of adults in the United States experience a mental health condition annually, there continues to be a gap in the provision of care because of a shortage of behavioral health providers. The National Council for Behavioral Health ...

Publication date: 18 December 2020

Background: Mental health conditions impose a major burden worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where health specialists are scarce. A challenge to closing LMICs’ mental health treatment gap is determining the most cost-...

Publication date: 09 December 2020

Background: Depression is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, including in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Depression often coexists with chronic medical conditions and is associated with worse clinical outcomes. This confluence ...

Publication date: 15 April 2021

Objective: The authors sought to describe the early use of collaborative care model (CoCM) and general behavioral health integration (BHI) billing codes among clinicians. Methods: Counts and payments were calculated for accepted and denied claims for ...

Publication date: 06 April 2021

Objective: The authors assessed associations between childhood and adolescent adversity and arrest among individuals with first-episode psychosis (FEP). The authors also sought to determine which domains of adversity had the greatest impact and whether ...

Publication date: 15 April 2021

Objective: The Patient Health Questionnaire–9 (PHQ-9) is commonly used to assess depression symptoms, but its associated treatment success criteria (i.e., metrics) are inconsistently defined. The authors aimed to analyze the impact of metric choice on ...

Publication date: 18 March 2021

It is well documented that individuals with serious mental illnesses are disadvantaged in their employment, educational attainment, social relationships, family relationships, and other areas, which are all social determinants of health. They are also the ...

Publication date: 26 March 2021

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a disabling psychiatric illness, creates substantial societal burden. Evidence-based treatments, including psychopharmacology and exposure with response/ritual prevention (EX/RP), are often inaccessible. Digital health ...

Publication date: 15 April 2021

This column describes the collaboration among the American Psychiatric Association (APA), American Society of Addiction Medicine, Friends Research Institute, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse to create the Addiction Medicine Practice-Based Research ...

Publication date: 12 January 2021

Awareness of the need for culturally adapted mental health interventions is growing. The authors describe the cultural adaptation of an evidence-based practice (EBP), illness management and recovery (IMR), to the Arab population in Israel. The process ...

Publication date: 02 June 2021

The New Mexico Supreme Court recently considered whether a trial court had erred in excluding behavioral genetic evidence of a murder defendant’s low-activity monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene, which the defendant argued had predisposed him—along with his ...

Publication date: 23 April 2021

Individuals with serious mental illnesses and poorly managed medical conditions known as serious medical-psychiatric illnesses (SMPIs) are vulnerable to disruptions in care, resulting in poor outcomes. Intensive integrated care management approaches are ...

Publication date: 01 July 2021