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Weight Change and Depression Among U.S. Young Women During the Transition to Adulthood
July 9, 2013 | Journal Article
In adolescent females, weight gain and obesity were risk factors for depression onset during the transition to adulthood according to research findings.
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.
The Psychosis High-Risk State
January 1, 2013 | Journal Article
This article offers an in-depth review of studies on the clinical high-risk (HR) state for psychosis.
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.
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.
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.
Social Security and Mental Illness
May 1, 2009 | Journal Article
In this paper, the authors address the issues relating to the largest group of Social Security beneficiaries: people with psychiatric disabilities.
The Role of Mental Health Factors, Behavioral Factors, and Past Experience in the Prediction of Rapid Repeat Pregnancy in Adolescence
January 28, 2009 | Journal Article
Rapid repeat pregnancies (RRPs) in adolescents are poorly understood, even though they are some of the pregnancies at highest risk for poor outcomes. This study showed that aggression was associated with higher risk of an RRP, but life history factors such as abuse and depression were not.