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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.
Business Planning to Replicate In SHAPE, a Program Promoting Health for People with Mental Illness
June 25, 2009 | Program Result
Consultants from Comprehensive Health Education Foundation helped Monadnock Family Services in Keene, N.H., create a strategic business plan to replicate its In SHAPE program.
Changing Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Services in Franklin County, Ohio
November 9, 2009 | Story
The Problem: Placing Children in Out-of-County Residential Facilities
Youth at Risk: Pittsburgh Association Expands Mental Health Services in Eight Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
April 20, 2009 | Program Result
The Community Empowerment Association, a social services organization in Pittsburgh, expanded its capacity to provide community-based services to youth with mental, emotional and behavioral health challenges in eight disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screening Status is Associated with Increased VA Medical and Surgical Utilization in Women
March 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Despite reports of poor health among women with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), information about this population's health care utilization rates is not well understood. This study used a mail survey to assess the relationship between utilizat ...
Frequency of Mastalgia Among Women Veterans
March 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Mastalgia (breast pain) is common at the start of the menstrual period, however, some women experience extended, noncyclic mastalgia. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and frequency of mastalgia and its relation with psychiat ...
Provider Recognition of Psychosocial Problems in Low-Income Latino Children
May 1, 2006 | Journal Article
In 2001–2002, 269 low-socioeconomic status (SES) Latino children aged 2–16 who were seen by primary care providers (PCPs) at a well-child care center were screened for a variety of psychosocial disorders, in order to determine how effective PCPs wer ...
Public Conceptions of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse, Their Causes and Treatments
October 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This study examines the degree to which lay beliefs about the causes of disorders may predict beliefs about what constitutes appropriate treatment. The authors analyzed randomized vignette data from the MacArthur Mental Health Module of the 1996 Gen ...
A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Amygdala and Medial Prefrontal Cortex Responses to Overtly Presented Fearful Faces in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
March 1, 2005 | Journal Article
The present study explored amygdala hyperresponsivity for individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).