Psychiatric Services
- Volume 73
- Number 7
- July 2022
Taking Issue
Articles
Publication date: 08 December 2021
Pages722–729Objective: Transgender individuals experience significant oppression resulting in mental health disparities. Factors associated with their need for acute mental health care are unknown. This study compared characteristics of transgender individuals who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100306Publication date: 21 December 2021
Pages730–736Objective: Few studies have examined the disproportionate use of restraints for Black adults receiving emergency psychiatric care. This study sought to determine whether the odds of physical and chemical restraint use were higher for Black patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100474Publication date: 23 November 2021
Pages737–744Objective: People who are incarcerated experience social exclusion and have higher rates of mental and substance use disorders than the general population. Prisons are not suitable for treating mental illness, and understanding how the profile of prison ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000927Publication date: 16 December 2021
Pages745–751Objective: This cross-sectional study examined the association between nursing home quality and admission of working-age persons (ages 22–64 years) with serious mental illness. Methods: The study used 2015 national Minimum Data Set 3.0 and Nursing Home ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100356Publication date: 18 January 2022
Pages752–759Objective: The effectiveness of NAMI Basics, a peer-led family support program for caregivers of children with mental health concerns, was tested in a sample of caregivers referred to five National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) affiliates in a large ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100278Publication date: 21 December 2021
Pages760–767Objective: Little is known about the health care costs of individuals with chronic psychotic disorders who experience incarceration. This study sought to address this knowledge gap. Methods: The authors analyzed linked 2007–2010 correctional and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100150Publication date: 17 February 2022
Pages768–773Objective: The authors sought to identify factors that affect hospital staff’s decision to pursue criminal charges against patients who assault staff on inpatient psychiatric units. Methods: Data on assaults occurring on inpatient psychiatric units in one ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100140Special Articles
Publication date: 29 November 2021
Pages774–786Objective: Efforts to improve mental health treatment delivery come at a time of rising inequality and cuts or insufficient increases to mental health funding. Public mental health clinicians face increased demands, experience economic stress, and treat ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100276Reviews & Overviews
Publication date: 08 December 2021
Pages787–800Objective: The authors conducted a systematic review of studies evaluating vocational interventions for young people with psychiatric conditions to determine the extent to which services were adapted for young people and whether services promoted gains in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000033Brief Reports
Publication date: 07 January 2022
Pages801–804Objective: Emerging evidence has suggested a population-wide worsening of psychiatric symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among individuals with preexisting mental health conditions. The authors investigated whether reported behavioral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100133Publication date: 10 February 2022
Pages805–808Objective: Development of smartphone apps for mental health care has outpaced research on their effectiveness. This pilot study tested Moving Forward, an app designed to support problem-solving therapy (PST). Methods: Thirty-three veterans seeking mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900254Open Forum
Publication date: 27 October 2021
Pages809–811Pretrial detention reform is keeping people who have been arrested on low-level charges out of jail while they await trial. This reform has implications for people with serious mental illnesses who are overrepresented in the criminal legal system and who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100252Publication date: 23 November 2021
Pages812–814The provision of mental health care for people living in low- and middle-income countries presents a particularly complex problem because of fractured service availability and provision, widespread stigma associated with mental illness, and the economic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000125Integrated Care
Publication date: 15 November 2021
Pages815–818This column describes the initial steps to develop a bidirectional access initiative between outpatient psychiatric and primary care clinics within an academic medical center. The authors analyzed electronic health record data (N=2,837 patients), ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100107Research, Community, & Services Partnerships
Publication date: 08 December 2021
Pages819–822Hub-and-spoke (H&S) partnerships for managing opioid use disorder vary by U.S. state. This column provides the first description of the development of an H&S partnership in Tennessee, a Medicaid nonexpansion state. Medicaid expansion allows states to fund ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100343Culture & Mental Health Services
Publication date: 15 November 2021
Pages823–826Efforts that destigmatize mental health, especially media campaigns, have not fully penetrated Latinx and Spanish-language media and have not reached consumers. This lack of reach conceivably contributes to high stigma and low use of mental health care ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100147Law & Psychiatry
Publication date: 11 May 2022
Pages827–829Excited delirium, a diagnosis not found in the DSM and lacking clear criteria, has been used to explain fatalities of people in police custody, especially deaths of young Black men, and to exculpate police officers from responsibility. The label has also ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20220204Global Mental Health Reforms
Publication date: 07 January 2022
Pages830–833The COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to community-based rehabilitation (CBR) for persons with mental illness, especially in resource-constrained settings. This column discusses the pandemic-related challenges faced by a rural CBR program in Jagaluru ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100462Publication date: 29 November 2021
Pages834–837The Intensive Home Treatment Team in Edinburgh provides care at home for those with acute and severe mental health problems. During the first COVID-19 lockdown, the team conducted and evaluated video and telephone calls but also continued seeing most ...
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