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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 74
  • Number 7
  • July 2023

Taking Issue

Articles

Publication date: 04 January 2023

Pages674–683

Objective:The authors aimed to compare national rates and patterns of use of outpatient mental health care among Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic White individuals.Methods:Data from the 2018–2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20220365

Publication date: 07 December 2022

Pages695–701

Objective:In many European countries, flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) has replaced assertive community treatment (ACT) despite limited evidence for FACT’s effectiveness in improving functional and patient-reported outcomes. This study ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20220235

Publication date: 10 January 2023

Pages702–708

Objective:The authors examined associations between criminal legal involvement (CLI) and serious psychological distress and how these associations differed by racial-ethnic group.Methods:The authors conducted a retrospective analysis of multiple cross-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202200048

Publication date: 07 December 2022

Pages718–726

Objective:Maryland’s Behavioral Health Integration in Pediatric Primary Care (BHIPP) is a child psychiatry access program offering child-adolescent psychiatry consultation, resource and referral networking, and direct-to-patient mental health ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20220323

Special Articles

Publication date: 23 February 2023

Pages737–745

Objective:Recently incarcerated people with opioid use disorder are at high risk of overdose and adverse outcomes as a result of biopsychosocial risk factors. Peer support models aiming to improve these outcomes have expanded in recent years. This ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20220310

Publication date: 04 January 2023

Pages746–755

Objective:The complex practice of measurement-based care (MBC) for mental health conditions has proven challenging to implement. This study aimed to evaluate an intensive strategy to implement MBC in U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Primary Care ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20220140

Brief Report

Publication date: 13 December 2022

Pages756–759

Objective:The authors investigated associations between rates of contact with individuals in distress during field visits by mobile crisis teams and client and referral source characteristics.Methods:In this retrospective observational study of an urban ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100736

Lived Experience Inclusion & Leadership

Publication date: 07 December 2022

Pages760–763

Despite some progress toward greater inclusion, individuals with personal experience of psychosis are rarely integrated into the training of clinicians or knowledge generation. Their exclusion increases the risk that dominant ways of conceptualizing ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20220488

Personal Accounts

State Mental Health Policy

Controversies in Psychiatric Services

Promoting High-Value Mental Health Care

Publication date: 25 January 2023

Pages774–777

In response to the opioid crisis, Catholic Charities of Baltimore sought to integrate substance use disorder treatment into their outpatient community mental health clinics. The agency developed a systematic practice improvement strategy that included a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100643

Law & Psychiatry

Publication date: 24 May 2023

Pages778–780

People with mental illnesses are markedly overrepresented in U.S. jails and prisons. Although a variety of factors account for this overrepresentation, punitive actions by prosecutors and judges in response to behaviors caused by mental illness play an ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20230208

Global Mental Health Reforms

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