Psychiatric Services

Publication date: 01 October 2023

Publication date: 12 April 2023

Objective: Emerging cross-sectional data indicate that essential workers in the COVID-19 era face increased mental health risks. This study longitudinally examined clinical symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and posttraumatic stress ...

Publication date: 05 April 2023

Objective: Individuals with criminal legal involvement have high rates of substance use and other mental disorders. Before implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, they also had low health insurance coverage. The objective of this ...

Publication date: 29 March 2023

Objective: Self-directed care (SDC) is a treatment model in which recipients self-manage funds designated for provision of services. The model is designed to cost no more than traditional services while achieving superior participant outcomes. The authors ...

Publication date: 29 March 2023

Objective: Peer workers are widely employed across the mental health sector in Australia, and these positions increasingly include people with experience as a service user (consumer peer workers) and people with experience as a family member (caregiver ...

Publication date: 05 April 2023

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic motivated rapid expansion of virtual care. In Winnipeg, Canada, the authors launched a virtual psychiatric acute care ward (vWARD) to divert patients from hospitalization through daily remote treatment by a psychiatry team ...

Publication date: 25 April 2023

Objective: The authors aimed to evaluate the impact of a staff development training program informed by the collaborative recovery model (CRM) on staff outcomes in the largest implementation of CRM undertaken by a public clinical mental health service. ...

Publication date: 12 April 2023

The use of fentanyl and its analogs is the primary driver of deaths related to the opioid overdose crisis. In fall 2021, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued its first public safety alert in 6 years to raise awareness of the escalating ...

Publication date: 12 April 2023

Objective: Evidence shows that Black individuals have higher rates of coercive emergency psychiatric interventions than other racialized groups, yet no studies have elevated the voices of Black patients undergoing emergency psychiatric evaluation. This ...

Publication date: 18 April 2023

Objective: This preliminary study tested the efficacy of an evidence-based correctional intervention (Thinking for a Change) with an adapted delivery to incarcerated people with mental illness. Methods: A small-scale randomized controlled trial (N=47 men) ...

Publication date: 05 April 2023

Objective: This study aimed to determine whether the evidence-based collaborative chronic care model (CCM) is associated with reduced all-cause mortality among adult patients treated in general mental health clinics. Methods: Data came from a stepped-wedge, ...

Publication date: 20 March 2023

Preliminary empirical evidence suggests that self-stigma may be a significant problem for those with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although research on self-stigma for persons with PTSD is limited, some PTSD symptoms, such as negative thoughts ...

Publication date: 20 March 2023

Publication date: 10 May 2023

Publication date: 12 April 2023

The comprehensive health care integration (CHI) framework promotes the delivery of integrated physical and behavioral health care to adults and children in community settings by providing a flexible integration approach for both physical and behavioral ...

Publication date: 14 March 2023

In conjunction with multiple partners (state agencies, nonprofits, a university, and key stakeholders and content experts), the authors are implementing and evaluating an intervention intended to enable individuals with serious mental illnesses living in ...

Publication date: 12 April 2023

Korean Americans are more likely to seek guidance from church leaders than to use traditional mental health services. Through semistructured key informant interviews with 16 Christian clergy members serving later-generation Korean Americans, the authors ...

Publication date: 20 March 2023

Within the general population, caregivers of individuals with severe mental illness experience considerable mental health burdens. Less is known about these burdens among Asian Americans, who frequently serve as primary caregivers of family members in ...

Publication date: 05 April 2023

Although clozapine demonstrates unique efficacy for treatment-resistant schizophrenia, its impact on community-based services remains largely underexplored. The authors examined changes in use of community-based services after clozapine treatment among a ...

Publication date: 24 August 2023

Guardianships allow court-appointed guardians to make decisions on behalf of persons who are incapable of caring for themselves. With their authority frequently extending over both the personal and the financial affairs of a ward, guardians sometimes ...