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Applying Community Engagement to Disaster Planning: Developing the Vision and Design for the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Initiative — Jun 7, 2013

A steering council used community-partnered participatory research to support workgroups in developing CR action plans and hosted forums for input to design a pilot demonstration of implementing CR versus enhanced individual preparedness toolkits.

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Grand Challenges: Integrating Mental Health Care Into the Non-Communicable Disease Agenda — May 1, 2013

Collaborative care models, where care for chronic disease and mental health care are integrated and provided in the primary care setting, benefit patients, strengthen health care systems, and reduce costs.

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Race and Beliefs About Mental Health Treatment Among Anxious Primary Care Patients — Mar 1, 2013

There are large racial disparities in the use of mental health care. But they are not explained by different treatment preferences across ethnic and racial groups.

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Using Patient-Facing Kiosks to Support Quality Improvement at Mental Health Clinics — Mar 1, 2013

Patients used kiosks in mental health clinics to provide routine data on clinical status and treatments. The data were used to improve quality of care.

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Does a Quality Improvement Intervention for Anxiety Result in Differential Outcomes for Lower-Income Patients? — Feb 1, 2013

The authors examined the effects of a collaborative care intervention for anxiety disorders in primary care on lower-income participants relative to those with higher incomes.

Content

Healing After the Sandy Hook Tragedy — Jan 3, 2013

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Nothing can reverse the disaster at Sandy Hook Elementary School and return the victims to their families. But research can guide the community toward recovery—and may help prevent future tragedies.

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Mental Health Treatment Experiences of U.S. Service Members Previously Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan — Jan 1, 2013

This study examined the mental health treatment experiences of active-duty U.S. service members who received treatment from primary care or specialty mental health providers.

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Effects of Pain and Prescription Opioid Use on Outcomes in a Collaborative Care Intervention for Anxiety — Jan 1, 2013

Anxious patients with pain benefit as much as those without pain from cognitive-behavioral therapy and medication treatment.

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Integrating Primary Care Into Community Behavioral Health Settings: Programs and Early Implementation Experiences — Jan 1, 2013

Describes the experiences of community behavioral health agencies that received PBHCI grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to integrate primary care into programs for adults with serious mental illness.

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Bridging the Gap: Supporting Translational Research Careers Through an Integrated Research Track Within Residency Training — Jan 1, 2013

In the setting of traditional residency training programs, physician-scientists are often limited in their ability to pursue research training goals while meeting clinical training requirements.

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Determining Engagement in Services for High-Need Individuals with Serious Mental Illness — Jan 1, 2013

This study examined whether Medicaid claims and other administrative data could identify high-need individuals with serious mental illness in need of outreach in a large urban setting.

Blog

Retired General Chiarelli Discusses Perceptions of Post-Traumatic Stress — Dec 31, 2012

Ret. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, who was Army vice chief of staff, discusses why he disagrees with the idea that the post-traumatic stress soldiers suffer is a disorder with RAND president and CEO Michael Rich at RAND's Politics Aside event.

Commentary

Shifting the Burden of Mental Health Care: Helping Families — Dec 21, 2012

In our national conversation on mental health, we should remember the role of families when thinking about treatment and ensure that our policies open up opportunities to support parents, siblings and relatives, and enhance their capacity for care, writes Ramya Chari.

Commentary

In Connecticut, Recovery and Healing Will Take Time — Dec 20, 2012

With an event like this, "recovery" doesn't mean a return to normal, because lives have been permanently altered. Recovery can only mean finding a new normal, a new path forward. And schools, those places of safety and healthy development, can help with that process, by providing a structure and community to support healing, writes Lisa Jaycox.

Journal Article

Medico-Legal Risk Associated with Pediatric Mental Health Telephone Consultation Programs — Dec 1, 2012

In this survey of six state mental health telephone consultation program directors, we report the annual number of children referred for consultation and the number of lawsuits against consultant clinicians.

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Effects of Co-Occurring Depression on Treatment for Anxiety Disorders: Analysis of Outcomes from a Large Primary Care Effectiveness Trial — Dec 1, 2012

Co-occurring depression is common in patients seeking treatment for anxiety; however, the literature on the effects of depression on anxiety treatment outcomes is inconclusive.

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National Survey on Implementation of Peer Specialists in the VA: Implications for Training and Facilitation — Dec 1, 2012

This study explored challenges, facilitators, and progress of Peer Specialist implementation from a stakeholder group involved in their management.

Report

Evaluating the Impact of Prevention and Early Intervention Activities on the Mental Health of California’s Population — Oct 9, 2012

This report describes a collection of frameworks for evaluating prevention and early intervention funding for mental health services for the California population.

Report

Evaluation of the peer worker programme at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust — Sep 4, 2012

An evaluation of the early stages of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust peer worker programme. The evaluation focuses on the perceptions of the programme's impact and the successes and challenges of its implementation.

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Introduction to BRIGHT: A Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Clients with Alcohol and Substance Use Problems (set of 5 DVDs) — Aug 15, 2012

This DVD set presents demonstrations of techniques, strategies, and exercises used in the BRIGHT (Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts) group therapy for individuals with co-occurring alcohol and drug use problems.

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