Rolin, Stephanie A Scodes, Jennifer Dambreville, Renald Nossel, Ilana R Bello, Iruma Wall, Melanie M Scott Stroup, T Dixon, Lisa B Appelbaum, Paul S
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Community mental health journal
This pilot study examined violence risk assessment among a sample of young adults receiving treatment for early psychosis. In this study, thirty participants were assessed for violence risk at baseline. Participants completed follow-up assessments at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months to ascertain prevalence of violent behavior. Individuals were on average 24.1...
Wells, Karen Hancock, Nicola Honey, Anne
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Community mental health journal
Great controversy surrounds the use of electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. However, it continues to be used internationally. While research on short term effects of ECT abound, there is limited knowledge about long term impacts of ECT on individuals, especially from the lived experience perspective. The aim of this qualitative study was to gain an in...
Han, Meekyung Diwan, Sadhna Cole, Tomasine Hay, Kristen Paturzo, Marisa
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Community mental health journal
The well-being of the family caregivers of people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) is a crucial success factor in the recovery of the afflicted family member. This cross-sectional quantitative study examined the associations between the use of formal mental health services, self-efficacy, and positive attitudes and their effects on the well-bei...
McClellan, Sean R Hunt, Meaghan Olsho, Lauren E W Dasgupta, Amrita Chowdhury, Mifta Sparks, Alicia C
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Community mental health journal
We surveyed users of a behavioral health helpline serving New York City and surroundings, to assess their helpline experiences, changes in psychological distress after contacting the helpline, and factors associated with differences in these measures. We surveyed users twice: roughly 2 weeks following their helpline contact, from 4/2019 to 9/2019 (...
Dingle, Arden D Fernandez, Francisco de Erausquin, Gabriel A
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Community mental health journal
Creating residencies that produce psychiatrists who are skilled and interested in working in under resourced areas, especially in community and rural settings is challenging. State and private agency collaboration can be an effective approach to enhancing such training. These resources for education have the goals of improving access and services, ...
Crapanzano, Kathleen A Smith, Sydney Hammarlund, Rebecca
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Community mental health journal
Work completed since the pandemic began has repeatedly demonstrated elevated mortality rates in people with schizophrenia hospitalized with COVID. They are a vulnerable group due to multiple issues-for example high co-morbidity rates of medical illness, often impaired insight and judgment, barriers to obtaining health care, and trouble understandin...
Ciampa, Maria Agostina Roca, María Lysaght, Rosemary
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Community mental health journal
People with serious mental illness (SMI) are frequently unemployed, despite their willingness to work. Several employment interventions approaches have proven efficacy; however, work integration rates for people with SMI continue to be low. In total, 145 participants with a SMI completed a survey, answering questions regarding their personal inform...
Janich, Nicole K Vazquez-Arreola, Elsa
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Community mental health journal
Healthcare systems have increasingly adopted integrated care models with demonstrated effectiveness. However, few studies examine integrated care for individuals with co-morbid mental illness and medical conditions. This quasi-experimental study compared service use for two integrated care models for patients with co-occurring conditions. We used h...
Nayak, Sameera S Carpenito, Thomas Zamechek, Lynn Roper, Kate Méndez-Peñate, Larisa Arty, Malika Moulin, Christy Mirand, Daphney Molnar, Beth E
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Community mental health journal
Understanding early childhood mental health service utilization in community-based clinical settings is important. Project Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children's Health (Project LAUNCH) provided mental health-related services for young children and families within pediatric medical homes. Using data from the Project LAUNCH evaluation (n = 10...
Rotter, Merrill Compton, Michael Samaranayake, Dhanushki Ehntholt, Amy Baldwin, Emily Schaeffer, Lynne Feeney, Suzanne Smith, Thomas E
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Community mental health journal
Social determinants are receiving renewed attention as research demonstrates the effects of social factors on individuals' physical and mental health and elucidates the biological and psychological mechanisms underlying those effects. Through spheres of influence from policy and regulation development to direct service provision, state mental healt...
