Pathways to vocational services: factors affecting entry by veterans enrolled in Veterans Health Administration mental health services

Drebing CE, Mueller L, Van Ormer EA, Duffy P, LePage J, Rosenheck R, Drake R, Rose GS, King K, Penk W. Psychol Serv. 2012 Feb;9(1):49-63. doi: 10.1037/a0026662 Psychology Service (116B), Bedford VA Medical Center, MA 01730, USA. charles.drebing@va.gov The current study provides naturalistic data documenting the pathways-to-care to vocational services for 155 veterans who were […]

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Utilising behavioural family therapy (BFT) to help support the system around a person with intellectual disability and complex mental health needs: a case study.

Marshall K, Ferris J. J Intellect Disabil. 2012 Jun;16(2):109-18. doi: 10.1177/1744629512443619. Epub 2012 Apr 10. SOURCE:  NHS Lothian, Livingston, Scotland. keith.marshall2@nhs.net There is a higher incidence of mental health problems amongst people with intellectual disabilities. Family members and support staff who provide support to people with intellectual disabilities with mental health difficulties are more likely […]

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Objective community integration of mental health consumers living in supported housing and of others in the community

Yanos PT, Stefancic A, Tsemberis S.  Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice–City University of New York, 524 W. 59th St, New York, NY 10019, USA. pyanos@jjay.cuny.edu.  Psychiatr Serv. 2012;63(5):438-44. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201100397. OBJECTIVE: Housing programs for people with severe mental illnesses aim to maximize community integration. However, little is known about how the […]

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SOCIAL ROLE VALORIZATION IN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH HOUSING: DOES IT CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION AND LIFE SATISFACTION OF PEOPLE WITH PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES?

Aubry T, Flynn RJ, Virley B, Neri J.  University of Ottawa.  J Community Psychol. 2013 Mar;41(2):218-235. Despite its importance as a theory in the development of programs for populations with disabilities, social role valorization (SRV) has received relatively little attention in community mental health research. We present findings of a study that examined the relationship […]

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Variations in disaster preparedness by mental health, perceived general health, and disability status

  Eisenman DP, Zhou Q, Ong M, Asch S, Glik D, Long A.   Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2009 Mar;3(1):33-41. doi: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e318193be89 SOURCE:  Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736, USA. deisenman@mednet.ucla.edu OBJECTIVES:  Chronic medical and mental illness […]

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Addressing the determinants of child mental health: intersectionality as a guide to primary health care renewal.

Primary health care (PHC) renewal was designed explicitly to attend to the multidimensional factors impacting on health, including the social determinants of health. These determinants are central considerations in the development of integrated, cross-sectoral, and multi-jurisdictional policies such as those that inform models of shared mental health care for children. However, there are complex theoretical […]

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Social determinants of mental health treatment among Haitian, African American, and White youth in community health centers.

We examine adequate mental health treatment, emergency room (ER) use, and early treatment dropout for Haitian, African American and White youth with a psychiatric diagnosis treated in community health centers in the United States. We present associations with possible socioeconomic determinants of care. Adequate treatment was less likely among Haitian youth from areas with greater […]

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The role of public health in addressing racial and ethnic disparities in mental health and mental illness.

Racial/ethnic minority populations are underserved in the American mental health care system. Disparity in treatment between whites and African Americans has increased substantially since the 1990s. Racial/ethnic minorities may be disproportionately affected by limited English proficiency, remote geographic settings, stigma, fragmented services, cost, comorbidity of mental illness and chronic diseases, cultural understanding of health care […]

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