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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 73
  • Number 3
  • March 2022

Taking Issue

Viewpoint

Articles

Articles

Publication date: 29 July 2021

Pages259–264

Objective:In 2008, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) established a suicide high-risk flag (HRF) for patient records. To inform ongoing suicide prevention activities as part of operations and quality improvement work in the U.S. Department of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000771

Articles

Publication date: 29 July 2021

Pages265–270

Objective:This article describes policy surveillance methodology used to track changes in the comprehensiveness of state mental health insurance laws over 23 years, resulting in a data set that supports legal epidemiology studies measuring effects of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100019

Articles

Articles

Publication date: 04 August 2021

Pages280–286

Objective:Integrated treatment services are the gold standard for addressing co-occurring mental and substance use disorders, yet they are not readily available. The Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) was hypothesized to be an ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000293

Articles

Publication date: 04 August 2021

Pages287–292

Objective:People with early episode psychosis (EEP) have more negative care outcomes than do people with later episode psychosis (LEP), including higher levels of high-intensity psychiatric service use. It is unclear whether these differences are best ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000802

Articles

Publication date: 20 July 2021

Pages293–298

Objective:The authors aimed to describe the development and testing of quality measures included in a public-facing addiction treatment facility search engine.Methods:An addiction treatment facility survey was created that queried providers in six U.S. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000879

Reviews & Overviews

Publication date: 13 August 2021

Pages299–312

Objective:The authors of this systematic review (SR) sought to provide evidence for effects of commonly used psychosocial interventions on several outcomes among adults with schizophrenia.Methods:MEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, and PsycINFO databases were ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000649

Special Articles

Publication date: 04 August 2021

Pages313–320

Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are at high risk of co-occurring mental health conditions, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, psychotic illnesses, impulse control disorders, and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900504

Special Articles

Publication date: 04 August 2021

Pages321–328

Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are at high risk of co-occurring mental health conditions, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, impulse control disorders, and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900505

Special Articles

Publication date: 23 June 2021

Pages329–334

Affordable housing for persons with severe mental illness has never developed on the scale needed. Nearly one million individuals with mental illness are incarcerated, homeless, couch surfing, or cycling among institutions and unstable housing options ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100158

Brief Reports

Publication date: 29 July 2021

Pages335–338

Objective:The authors evaluated the likelihood of hospital admission, mechanical ventilation, and mortality within 30 days after a COVID-19 diagnosis among persons with or without serious mental illness.Methods:Adults with and without serious mental ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100151

Brief Reports

Publication date: 29 July 2021

Pages339–342

Objective:This study aimed to examine the proportion of U.S. mental health facilities that provide non-English language services.Methods:Using data from the 2018 National Mental Health Services Survey, the authors examined differences between mental ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100093

Open Forum

Publication date: 09 August 2021

Pages343–345

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a frequently disabling disorder characterized by distressing thoughts and behaviors, often goes undetected, or individuals with this disorder do not receive evidence-based care. Educating clinicians and individuals ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100083

Promoting High-Value Mental Health Care

Publication date: 29 July 2021

Pages346–348

This study assessed the cost savings to the local health care system from using a 16-bed crisis residential facility (the Inn) in Austin, Texas, instead of hospitalization, for individuals with acute psychiatric illness (N=1,364) during FY2017–FY2019. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100037

Promoting High-Value Mental Health Care

Publication date: 29 July 2021

Pages349–352

The emergency department (ED) physicians working for the French Service d'Aide Medicale d'Urgence (SAMU) refer about 84% of individuals who contact SAMU for psychiatric problems to the psychiatric ED (PED), compared with only 20% of those calling with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000929

Social Determinants of Mental Health

Publication date: 04 August 2021

Pages353–356

Individually, the COVID-19 pandemic and opioid epidemic have each been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. Systemic racism, including public perceptions about people who use opioids, inadequate substance abuse prevention and treatment efforts,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100070

Global Mental Health Reforms

Publication date: 13 July 2021

Pages357–360

The Beirut port explosion on August 4, 2020, traumatized the Lebanese population. It also revealed a lack of disaster mental health preparedness in a country subject to significant political, economic, and security challenges. The Trauma Assessment and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000846

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