A Mixed-Method Assessment of a Pilot Peer Advocate Intervention for Rural Gender and Sexual Minorities.

abstract：:State mental health authorities have a leadership role in implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs), but few instruments are available to assess the impact of this role. We describe the development of the State Mental Health Authority Yardstick (SHAY), a behaviorally anchored instrument designed to assess state-lev...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Finnerty MT,Rapp CA,Bond GR,Lynde DW,Ganju V,Goldman HH

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the comprehensiveness of disaster mental health state plans and their adherence to published best practices in three states that experienced post-9/11 federally-declared disasters. There were 59 disaster mental health best practices used in this study to assess each state disaster mental plan's...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： McIntyre J,Nelson Goff BS

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether concurrent medical status contributes to employment outcomes among those with psychiatric disabilities. Thirty-five percent (n = 70) of the 200 participants reported being currently employed. Sixty-three percent (n = 127) reported one or more co-occurring medical conditions; thirty-six perc...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Goldberg RW,Hackman A,Medoff DR,Brown C,Fang LJ,Dickerson F,Kreyenbuhl J,Dixon L

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study identified the health resources that rural consumers in DHHS Region V indicated they would use for mental health problems. Data were collected by survey research methods from a probability sample of 3057 rural residents. The study found that rural residents prefer to use primary care givers for mental healt...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Flaskerud JH,Kviz FJ

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A suggested example of a systematic approach for linking planning with evaluation is presented. The proposed systematic processes would help deal with the ambiguities of the mental health field and provide a more objective way of planning and evaluating programs. Program evaluation can then be related to the predeterm...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Olkon SH

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The legislative pressures now dominating the realm of program accountability are moving the mental health system from process to outcome evaluations. While the need for this type of assessment is generally acknowledged, its methodological validity and policy-setting utility are the subject of considerable controversy....

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Schulberg HC

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about patients' electronic cigarette use, interest in and use of smoking cessation treatments, and providers' attitude towards such treatment. We assessed patients (N = 231) and providers (45 psychiatrists, 97 case workers) in four Community Mental Health Centers. Interestingly, 50% of smokers reported...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Chen LS,Baker T,Brownson RC,Carney RM,Jorenby D,Hartz S,Smock N,Johnson M,Ziedonis D,Bierut LJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a subpopulation of the seriously mentally ill who remain acute care recidivists, rarely becoming engaged in follow-up treatment. It has been argued that these individuals are system, rather than treatment resisters. The perceptions they have of their problems are often in conflict with staff evaluations, or w...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Santiago JM,Berren MR,Beigel A,Goldfinger SM,Hannah MT

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work is good for both physical and mental health, and access to work is a basic human right. People with mental health conditions want to work and with the right support can work but are often excluded from the workplace. We explored factors influencing individual's perceptions of their readiness for employment. Parti...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Prior S,Maciver D,Forsyth K,Walsh M,Meiklejohn A,Irvine L

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do some implementations in human service settings of goal attainment scaling (GAS), an innovative program evaluation technique, last over time, whereas others die out despite an initially successful period of operation? To provide some tentative answers to this question and to help shed more light generally on dif...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Glaser EM,Backer TE

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing awareness of the sensitive and crucial role of the law enforcement officer as a community caretaker. Rigorous efforts to define criteria of adequate performance and to select men who can meet these criteria are called for. In this study applicants for a law enforcement agency were subjected to an e...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： McDonough LB,Monahan J

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is an exploration of mental health consumers' perspectives on information, including scientific information, and on other inputs to decision-making. Four focus groups were held with severely mentally ill consumers at two sites in the summer of 2005. Consumers varied in age, race and diagnosis. Participant r...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Tanenbaum SJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proliferation of recent literature provides substantial direction as to the key ingredients-target groups, messages and methods, and evaluation-of local-level, public interventions to counter stigma and discrimination. This paper provides a selective narrative review of that literature from the perspective or standp...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Ashton LJ,Gordon SE,Reeves RA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As it is increasingly evident that distressing voices can be linked to traumatic events across diagnoses, there is a need for new transdiagnostic interventions for persons with voice hearing related distress. Twenty-five interviews with voice hearers and mental health professionals explored the trans-diagnostic suitab...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Schnackenberg J,Fleming M,Walker H,Martin CR

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeless population has complex needs. Peers with experience of homelessness offer unique perspectives in supporting those experiencing homelessness. Peer support fostered and developed by professional organisations, termed intentional peer support (IPS), formalises this process. This review aims to assess the eff...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Barker SL,Maguire N

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last forty years deinstitutionalization has transferred the care of people with a serious mental illness from the psychiatric hospitals to community based facilities. More recently it has been questioned whether these new facilities offer the anticipated benefits of quality of life. This study examines the Qual...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Horan ME,Muller JJ,Winocur S,Barling N

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To inform efforts to improve physical health care for adults with serious mental illness, this study examines predictors of provision and receipt of physical health services in freestanding mental health clinics in New York state. The number of services provided over the initial 12-months of implementation varied acro...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Breslau J,Pritam R,Guarasi D,Horvitz-Lennon M,Finnerty M,Yu H,Leckman-Westin E

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV disease is an emerging community mental health concern. The need for specialized training to help community mental health professionals develop comprehensive knowledge and skills to serve this new population of clients is evident. The HIV clinical tutorial model is an innovative approach to continuing education ch...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Knox MD,Gaies JS

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Italy's mental health law of 1978 provided for the gradual phasing out of psychiatric hospitals (PH) and the creation of comprehensive community-based systems. However, these changes have taken place at different times and in different forms. There are now three different organizational and care models operating in It...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： de Girolamo G,Cappiello V

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the planning, development, implementation, and results of a consultation program to the clergy as part of an agency's community mental health service. The paper focuses on the four main program goals of (1) revitalizing a local association for the clergy, (2) developing the clergy's pastoral skill...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kaseman CM,Anderson RG

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of hearing voices is currently a much-discussed topic, both in the field of research and in the field of care services. The majority of people who report "hearing voices" do not subsequently receive services or receive a diagnosis of psychopathology. This topic raises questions for professionals in the ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Iudici A,Quarato M,Neri J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recovery concept encompasses overcoming or managing one's illness, being physically and emotionally healthy, and finding meaningful purpose through work, school, or volunteering, which connects one to others in mutually fulfilling ways. Using a mixed-methods approach, we studied the emphasis on "a meaningful day" ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Myers NA,Smith K,Pope A,Alolayan Y,Broussard B,Haynes N,Compton MT

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) is a self-report questionnaire that allows the assessment of positive mental health, including three well-being components-emotional, psychological and social-as well as the categorical diagnosis of the presence or absence of mental health. The purpose of this study is t...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Fonte C,Silva I,Vilhena E,Keyes CLM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sociodemographic differences between rural and urban clients with severe mental illness (SMI) are explored using approaches which extend research in this area beyond limitations found in the few existing studies. Sixteen hundred adult clients from 18 Wisconsin counties are classified according to the degree of ruralit...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Greenley JR,Dottl SL

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peer support facilitates recovery. However, little is known about the role of peer support within the Clubhouse model. This article reports on Clubhouse members' experiences of peer support and the outcomes they identify from engaging in this phenomenon. Grounded theory guided the study design involving 17 semi-struct...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Coniglio FD,Hancock N,Ellis LA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In California and in Great Britain plans are being made to move the treatment setting for many sex offenders from large state hospitals to community sites. The most useful aspects of the state hospital programs can be adapted to the community setting. In the proposed treatment centers, graded levels of security may in...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Freeman AM 3rd

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study described the prevalence and correlates of comorbid moderate-severe depressive symptoms (comorbid depression thereafter) and their association with quality of life (QOL) in schizophrenia patients treated in primary care. 623 schizophrenia patients were enrolled. Patients' socio-demographic and clinical char...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hou CL,Ma XR,Cai MY,Li Y,Zang Y,Jia FJ,Lin YQ,Chiu HF,Ungvari GS,Hall BJ,Zhong BL,Cao XL,Xiang YT

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is viewed by most as having a neuropsychological component, with deficits primarily occurring in the areas of attention/concentration, memory, and executive functioning. These deficits often contribute to difficulties in everyday living and social functioning. The purpose of this study is to examine the ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Davalos DB,Green M,Rial D

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persons who are homeless and mentally ill present unique challenges to service providers and human service systems. In vivo case management approaches such as assertive community treatment (ACT) have shown promise in engaging this population. This paper explores case management models employed within the ACCESS progra...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Johnsen M,Samberg L,Calsyn R,Blasinsky M,Landow W,Goldman H

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present descriptive study investigated the impact of socio-economic status in meeting the human rights needs among randomly selected recovered psychiatric patients (n = 100) at a tertiary care center. Data was collected through face to face interview, using structured Needs Assessment Questionnaire. The findings r...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Vijayalakshmi P,Ramachandra,Reddemma K,Math SB

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00