How Can Early Treatment of Serious Mental Illness Improve Lives and Save Money?
March 26, 2013 | Issue Brief
Early treatment and intervention for mental illness can improve lives and lower related health care costs.
Behavioral Disorders/Mental Illness
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The Manufacture of Recovery
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Paradigms shaping mental health policy have changed over the years; recovery is the most recent dominant paradigm.
Increasing and Sustaining School Mental Health Services
November 27, 2012 | Program Result
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools conducted research and analysis to explore strategies to increase the number, quality, and sustainability of school mental health services and programs.
A Community Outreach and Education Model for Early Identification of Mental Illness in Young People
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
PIER offers a new model for community health education that, in contrast to traditional mental health education, strengthens capacity for proactive engagement of key stakeholders in youth mental health.
Mental Disorders and Medical Comorbidity
February 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
The expansion of health insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has the potential to benefit persons with comorbid mental and medical disorders. This synthesis examines the evidence on physical and mental comorbidity including its prevalence, origins and models for effective treatment.
A Survey of Stakeholder Knowledge, Experience, and Opinions of Advance Directives for Mental Health in Virginia
January 13, 2012 | Journal Article
An innovative Virginia health care law enables competent adults with serious mental illness to plan for treatment during incapacitating crises using an integrated advance directive with no legal distinction between psychiatric or other causes of decisional incapacity.
Are Patients with Serious Mental lllness More Likely to be Admitted to Nursing Homes with More Deficiencies in Care?
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study to determine whether patients with serious mental illness (SMI) are admitted to nursing homes with acceptable quality of care as often as other patients found that patients with SMI were more likely to be admitted to nursing homes with more total and health care-related deficiency citations.
Helping Traumatized Refugees and Immigrants Start New Lives
November 20, 2011 | Story
Projects in Boston and Minneapolis, Minn., provided special school-connected mental health services to help refugees and immigrants recover from trauma under Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth.
Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Needed Adolescent Mental Health Care
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Minority adolescents use mental health services less frequently than White adolescents. The findings presented here suggest that social attitudes toward depression might prevent minority children from seeking treatment research occurred during 2008 in a Texas high school mental health clinic.
Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Care Management for Chronically Depressed Primary Care Patients
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Chronically depressed patients in primary practices are helped by a program that uses a care manager intervention and teaches self-management techniques.