Marisa E Marraccini, Rachel Anonick, Lauren E Delgaty, Telieha J Middleton, Emily N Toole, Jennifer Ying, Robert Hubal
{"title":"Practice experiences for school reintegration: Endorsement for virtual reality with adolescents hospitalized for suicide-related crises.","authors":"Marisa E Marraccini, Rachel Anonick, Lauren E Delgaty, Telieha J Middleton, Emily N Toole, Jennifer Ying, Robert Hubal","doi":"10.1037/ser0000874","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ser0000874","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study applied qualitative methods and a user design approach to develop and iteratively refine a model for a virtual reality intervention designed to supplement standard inpatient treatment for adolescents hospitalized for suicide-related crises: the practice experiences for school reintegration (PrESR). The PrESR model allows patients to practice therapeutic skills within an immersive school environment to increase skill knowledge and skill use and to improve school reintegration. Adolescents previously hospitalized for suicide-related thoughts and behaviors (<i>n</i> = 13), hospital professionals with experience providing supports to hospitalized adolescents (<i>n</i> = 7), and school professionals with experience supporting adolescents with suicide-related risks (<i>n</i> = 12) completed focus group and/or one-on-one interviews to inform the development of the PrESR model. Transcribed interviews were analyzed using content analysis, and structured feedback was analyzed by calculating frequencies. Participating adolescents were between the ages of 13 and 18, identifying their race as White (61%), Asian (7.7%), American Indian and Black (7.7%), or Black (7.7%; note that 15.4% preferred not to answer) and their ethnicity as Hispanic (23%) or non-Hispanic (77%). Adolescents identified their gender as girl or woman (46%), boy or man (38%), or \"some other way\" (15%). A majority of adolescent and professional participants endorsed the PrESR as holding the potential to promote skill learning. Feedback addressed improvements to scenarios and skills; safety concerns, constraints to consider, and barriers to implementation; and information to include in the treatment manual. Findings also informed the types of difficulties adolescents face in schools and the potential feasibility of a virtual reality intervention to enhance standard inpatient care of adolescents hospitalized for suicide-related crises. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":" ","pages":"145-157"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11607177/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141180033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah M Manchak, Jessica J Warner, Alison J Farringer, Symone Pate, Valerie R Anderson
{"title":"Interpersonal process features of collaboration between probation and behavioral health practitioners.","authors":"Sarah M Manchak, Jessica J Warner, Alison J Farringer, Symone Pate, Valerie R Anderson","doi":"10.1037/ser0000813","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ser0000813","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study sought to identify and conceptualize the central interpersonal process features that comprise good collaboration between behavioral health practitioners (BHPs) and probation officers (POs). Eighteen POs and 21 BHPs from geographically adjacent jurisdictions in a Midwestern state each participated in one of six focus groups. Researchers systematically coded focus group transcripts for interpersonal collaborative themes using both inductive and deductive strategies. Seven core themes-shared values and beliefs, communication and information sharing, knowledge of the other, trust, respect, team-based decision making, and equitable contribution-were identified and coded for importance, as indexed by frequency, latent tone, and group consensus. An initial working operational definition of these constructs, based on practitioners' dialogue, is also provided. This study is one of the first to provide BHPs and POs who work with justice-involved people with prescriptive guidance about interpersonal actions and approaches that will best serve their professional collaborative efforts. Future research should examine whether these constructs hold across other samples and contexts and work to fully operationalize and measure these constructs and their importance for affecting various outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":" ","pages":"72-80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71426304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coercive control in a national U.S. self-report survey: Prediction of repeated intimate partner violence.","authors":"N Zoe Hilton, Dana L Radatz","doi":"10.1037/ser0000881","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ser0000881","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coercive, controlling behavior toward intimate partners correlates with physical intimate partner violence (IPV). We examined whether it also predicts subsequent IPV or other aggression. We conducted a secondary analysis of self-reports by 1,039 women and 509 men who participated in the first two waves of the Interpersonal Conflict and Resolution Study (Mumford et al., 2019). We defined coercive control as any reported perpetration at Wave 1 of threat to physically harm, threat to use information to control, or put down or disrespect their partner. The participants also reported perpetration of verbal abuse and physical or sexual aggression against intimate partners. We tested correlations of these behaviors with similar acts toward nonintimates (friends or unfamiliar persons) in Wave 1 and the prediction of physical violence in Wave 2, approximately 5 months later. Coercive control (14% of men, 26% of women) was correlated with physical or sexual IPV (8% of men, 15% of women) in both women and men and with physical violence and coercive control to nonintimates. In logistic regressions entering Wave 1 physical IPV on the first step, Wave 1 coercive control was a significant independent predictor of Wave 2 physical IPV overall, and for men but not women. Coercive control did not independently predict nonintimate physical violence. Coercive control toward an intimate partner is a unique predictor of physical IPV among men. Future research should use improved measures of coercive control and further examine coercive control as an indicator of general antisociality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":" ","pages":"92-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141331635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thalia P Nicholson, Rory A Pfund, Meredith K Ginley
{"title":"A systematic review of mental health stigma reduction trainings for law enforcement officers.","authors":"Thalia P Nicholson, Rory A Pfund, Meredith K Ginley","doi":"10.1037/ser0000915","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ser0000915","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of the present systematic review was to evaluate the outcome of law enforcement officer (LEO) trainings on mental health (MH) stigma and other outcomes. A systematic search of Pubmed, APA PsycInfo, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials was conducted to identify studies examining MH stigma trainings implemented within the LEO profession. Both randomized and nonrandomized studies were considered. Risk of bias was assessed via the Cochrane Risk-of-Bias tool for randomized trials and the Risk of Bias in Non-Randomized Study of Intervention (Version 2). The present review identified 18 studies comprised of 2,399 participants (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 37.37, <i>SD</i> = 4.76). Samples were predominantly composed of police officers (<i>k</i> = 16), followed by correctional officers (<i>k</i> = 2) and both (<i>k</i> = 1). Although the review aimed to investigate trainings targeting institutional, public, and self-stigma, all studies implemented trainings intended to decrease public stigma. Outcomes evaluated across studies included attitudes toward MH, knowledge about MH, self-efficacy/confidence, behavioral responses/de-escalation skills, social distance, and awareness, support, and utilization of MH resources. Although the outcomes evaluated were somewhat consistent across studies, there was variability in how variables were defined and measured. Due to this, data could not be compared across studies, and thus, conclusions could not be drawn regarding which trainings demonstrated the most effectiveness in reducing MH. Despite the increased research investigating the outcomes of trainings on stigma within the LEO population, the variability in methodology and the high rate of bias exhibited across studies suggest that more rigorous and better quality evaluations are warranted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":" ","pages":"120-135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142626763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining mental health engagement among veterans diagnosed with serious mental illness.","authors":"Holly J McKinley, Tasha M Nienow","doi":"10.1037/ser0000916","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ser0000916","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Engagement in psychosocial mental health services has been found to support and facilitate the process of recovery in individuals with serious mental illness. However, many individuals eligible for these services are not receiving them. Presently, little is known about the factors that contribute to treatment engagement. This study aimed to identify attitudes related to treatment engagement among veterans with serious mental illness enrolled at a large VA medical center. Thirty-six veterans participated in individual qualitative interviews about their beliefs about the efficacy and purpose of mental health care; their perceptions of societal attitudes regarding mental health; and their experiences accessing mental health care. Based on their level of treatment engagement in the last year, veterans were classified as either engaged in psychosocial mental health services (<i>n</i> = 15), engaged in psychiatric medication management only (<i>n</i> = 14), or not engaged in VA mental health services (<i>n</i> = 7). Attitudes associated with level of service usage were examined to identify factors that might improve engagement in treatment and quality of mental health services. Results suggest that provider expertise and rapport were critical to engagement. Our findings also suggest that barriers to accessing care included beliefs about when it was appropriate to request services, stigmatizing attitudes within one's social network, the complexity of the mental health system, and failures of providers and the treatment system to address the needs of a diverse patient population. Implications for clinical training and practice are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":" ","pages":"177-186"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11920927/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142626769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Responsivity research: Informing psychological services for justice systems that work.","authors":"Femina P Varghese, Philip R Magaletta","doi":"10.1037/ser0000928","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ser0000928","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public service psychologists engage their research competencies to explore the psychological health needs of underserved populations and the justice systems that deliver them psychological services. In late June 2023. the Criminal Justice Section of Division 18 of the American Psychological Association cosponsored the Fifth North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference: Towards a Justice System That Works, Toronto, Canada. This is the fourth time our journal, <i>Psychological Services</i>, has engaged to develop a section of peer-reviewed articles from the original empirical research presented at the North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference. Supplemented with additional justice-related articles featuring a theme of responsivity, this brief introduction outlines the importance of responsivity research-knowledge that informs unique aspects of a subpopulation so clinicians might better inform the services they deliver. Articles span a range of justice settings domestically and internationally and examine issues of gender, ethnicity, and the workforce to increase the empirically informed responsivity factors that deepen provider understandings of treatment needs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":"22 1","pages":"61-62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143053466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chelsey Bull, Mollee Steely-Smith, MeeSoh Bossard, Marie E Karlsson, Ana J Bridges, Melissa J Zielinski
{"title":"To SHARE or not to SHARE: Exploring incarcerated women's decisions about enrolling in exposure-based group therapy.","authors":"Chelsey Bull, Mollee Steely-Smith, MeeSoh Bossard, Marie E Karlsson, Ana J Bridges, Melissa J Zielinski","doi":"10.1037/ser0000861","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ser0000861","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exposure therapies effectively treat traumatic stress sequelae, including that which follows sexual violence victimization (SVV). Carceral facilities house women with significantly higher rates of SVV than community samples, yet they rarely implement this form of treatment. In this study, women with histories of SVV (<i>n</i> = 63) completed semistructured qualitative interviews about their decision to enroll or not enroll in an exposure-based group therapy called Survivors Healing from Abuse: Recovery through Exposure while incarcerated. All study participants were previously incarcerated in a prison, where they were offered the opportunity to enroll in Survivors Healing from Abuse: Recovery through Exposure. We used the theory of planned behavior to analyze factors that affected enrollment decisions. Results revealed that enrollment decisions among incarcerated women can be categorized within the theory of planned behavior framework. Interview responses indicated that recognizing current problems as related to experiences of SVV, holding positive attitudes about mental health treatment, observing peers engaging in help-seeking behaviors, and perceiving treatment as accessible were linked with enrollment. Negative perceptions of treatment, fear of judgment, and negative peer influence (e.g., distrust of peers) were linked to decisions not to enroll. While certain beliefs were influenced by contextual features of incarceration (e.g., peer interactions outside of group therapy), many overlapped with factors found to influence help-seeking among nonincarcerated populations. Findings have implications for how to engage members of underserved populations in resource-deprived contexts who have a great need for treatment of traumatic symptoms secondary to sexual violence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":" ","pages":"81-91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141082024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mary Jansen, Maggie Manning, Lauren Gonzales, Joseph DeLuca, Meaghan Stacy
{"title":"Training guidelines and competencies for serious mental illness (SMI) psychology.","authors":"Mary Jansen, Maggie Manning, Lauren Gonzales, Joseph DeLuca, Meaghan Stacy","doi":"10.1037/ser0000854","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ser0000854","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) face unique and significant challenges that require evidence-based practices and clinicians who have advanced, comprehensive training to provide them. SMI affects about 5.5% of the U.S. population and results in serious health, social, and economic burdens. Despite advancements in treatment over the past 50 years, training programs for psychologists and other mental health providers have failed to keep up with these advances, underutilizing evidence-based assessments and interventions developed specifically for this population and found to be efficacious. To address this, the SMI Psychology Specialty has developed Training Guidelines to establish consistent, high-quality, and evidence-based training for postdoctoral psychologists. This article highlights selected features of the Training Guidelines for SMI Psychology. Although these were developed for postdoctoral training programs in SMI Psychology, they are applicable to training programs at all levels, and we hope that training programs in psychology and other mental health disciplines will incorporate these advances into their curricula. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":" ","pages":"4-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141082038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carl Waitz, Annmarie Caracansi, Katy Kaufman, Emily Campbell, Ethan Anglemyer, Yohanis Anglero-Diaz, Sherry Paden, Billy Zou, Patricia Ibeziako
{"title":"Implementing patient-reported outcome measures on an adolescent inpatient psychiatry unit: A feasibility study.","authors":"Carl Waitz, Annmarie Caracansi, Katy Kaufman, Emily Campbell, Ethan Anglemyer, Yohanis Anglero-Diaz, Sherry Paden, Billy Zou, Patricia Ibeziako","doi":"10.1037/ser0000851","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ser0000851","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the feasibility of implementing patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures with adolescents on an inpatient psychiatry service. During the study period (March 8, 2021, to June 7, 2022), a total of 154 patient encounters were recorded for adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age. PROs were piloted during the first 3 months of the study period, with a focus on technical implementation. In the 12 months from June 8, 2021, through June 7, 2022, the PRO project moved to full implementation across all patient encounters. Fisher's exact test and independent t tests were conducted to examine the differences between patients who completed the PROs and patients who did not complete them to determine the representativeness of the sample receiving them. During the 3-month pilot period, 31.8% of patients completed the PROs at admission and discharge, while during the 12-month full implementation, 74.5% of patients completed them at both time points. Statistical tests showed no significant diagnostic, sex, or race/ethnicity differences between patients who received and did not receive the outcome measures. Even without funding, small inpatient psychiatry services for adolescents can feasibly implement PROs with completion rates similar to other published studies and capture the majority of the patients served. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":" ","pages":"112-119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140120437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predictive validity of the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV) in a sample of New Zealand Māori and European male prisoners.","authors":"Ryan Botha, Devon L L Polaschek","doi":"10.1037/ser0000885","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ser0000885","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Numerous studies have investigated the predictive validity of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL), but the majority have used samples from North America. The PCL may inform important decisions about people's futures; recognition has been growing of the importance of ensuring that its psychometric properties are established in each jurisdiction where it is used, especially for Indigenous and non-European populations. The present study examined the predictive properties of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV; Hart et al., 1995) in 371 New Zealand (NZ) male prisoners, including NZ European and NZ Māori subsamples. Discrimination analyses showed that PCL:SV total scores had moderate predictive accuracy for any new conviction within 5 years of release; no significant differences were detected for Māori versus NZ European on this outcome. PCL:SV Factor 2 (Lifestyle/Antisocial) scores were moderately predictive of violent recidivism within 5 years of release. In a second, independent sample of male prisoners (<i>n</i> = 102), both PCL:SV total and Factor 2 scores showed moderate predictive accuracy for serious institutional violence. Additionally, PCL:SV Facets 1 (Interpersonal) and 2 (Affective) scores were uniquely associated with time to sexual and violent recidivism, respectively. Understanding the predictive performance of clinical risk measures across diverse ethnic groups is an important step toward identifying and addressing ethnic disparities in criminal justice outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":" ","pages":"102-111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142392644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}