Mustafa Karakus, Jarnee Riley, Jeffrey Taylor, William Frey, David Salkever
{"title":"Second Look at Reported Racial-Ethnic Employment Differences in the Supported Employment Demonstration.","authors":"Mustafa Karakus, Jarnee Riley, Jeffrey Taylor, William Frey, David Salkever","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20240594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":"76 5","pages":"532"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144021042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addressing Methodological Limitations in the Study of Mental Health Service Access Inequities Among AANHPI Medicaid Enrollees.","authors":"Qiang Xie, Weiying Chen","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20240621","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":"76 5","pages":"530-531"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144027571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychiatric servicesPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.20240448
Tami L Mark, Miku Fujita, William J Parish
{"title":"Disparities in Use of Out-of-Network Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment Versus Medical or Surgical Treatment.","authors":"Tami L Mark, Miku Fujita, William J Parish","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240448","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"516-517"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143597101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychiatric servicesPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.20240187
Loreen Straub, Shelbi A Cox, Lauren V Moran, Matthew Ruble, Rajendra Aldis, Jason B Gibbons, Jun Liu, John Peloquin, Rachel Wood, Alyson Albano, Josephine S Au, Jennifer R Henretty, Philip S Wang
{"title":"Changes in Recovery Assessment Scale Scores During a Treatment Episode Among Patients in a Large Behavioral Health Care System.","authors":"Loreen Straub, Shelbi A Cox, Lauren V Moran, Matthew Ruble, Rajendra Aldis, Jason B Gibbons, Jun Liu, John Peloquin, Rachel Wood, Alyson Albano, Josephine S Au, Jennifer R Henretty, Philip S Wang","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240187","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240187","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The authors utilized patient-reported outcomes from a large U.S. behavioral health care system to evaluate the strength of improvements in patients' self-perceived recovery during mental health treatment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a cohort study conducted with electronic health records from 2021-2022 Discovery Behavioral Health patients. Patients were grouped according to their 41-item Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS) scores at admission. Linear regression models accounting for patient characteristics were used to estimate RAS score changes from admission to discharge and RAS score at discharge.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 9,441 patients, those belonging to groups with lower RAS scores at admission showed substantial score improvements, although their scores at discharge were still much lower compared with those of patients with higher admission scores. Results were consistent across secondary analyses.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Substantial improvements in recovery were evident during treatment, especially for patients with lower RAS scores at admission. The findings underline the importance of research into enhanced personalized treatment approaches to optimize recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"506-510"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12045741/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143024607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Person-Centered Care and the U.S. Mental Health Care System.","authors":"Dorothy Chyung, Jack Tsai","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.25076008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.25076008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":"76 5","pages":"427"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bryann B DeBeer, Patricia D Russell, Joseph Mignogna
{"title":"Reply to Obegi.","authors":"Bryann B DeBeer, Patricia D Russell, Joseph Mignogna","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20250074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20250074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":"76 5","pages":"529-530"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144044948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychiatric servicesPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.20240440
Margaret Spottswood, Jesse Arik Schnall, Abigail R Koch, Carl B Feinstein
{"title":"The Vermont Child Psychiatry Access Program: Statewide Partnership to Expand Primary Care Capacity for Youth Mental Health.","authors":"Margaret Spottswood, Jesse Arik Schnall, Abigail R Koch, Carl B Feinstein","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240440","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Vermont Child Psychiatry Access Program (VTCPAP), launched in 2022 to address gaps in youth mental health care access in Vermont, offers same-day consultation to primary care providers (PCPs). Over 16 months, the VTCPAP facilitated 597 patient-specific consultations, including in rural and underserved areas. With VTCPAP's services, PCPs reported being better able to treat patients' mental health as well as enhancement to their own work life. Plans to maximize limited resources and to address the full spectrum of youth mental health care needs include providing asynchronous messaging for consultation initiation and integrating an existing perinatal mental health consultation program.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"522-525"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychiatric servicesPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.20240617
Scott A Simpson
{"title":"Psychiatrists' Complicated Relationship With Hospitalization and Implications for Emergency Psychiatry.","authors":"Scott A Simpson","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240617","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240617","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"511-512"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143597325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychiatric servicesPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.20240339
Benjamin D Brody
{"title":"Bridging the Gap Between Joint Commission Accreditation and High-Quality Behavioral Health Care: Reflections on a Survey.","authors":"Benjamin D Brody","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240339","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240339","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Joint Commission accreditation helps ensure hospital safety and quality. Accreditation also serves as an independent monitor for payers, the public, and other stakeholders. Evidence-based practices necessarily evolve, and ensuring high-quality care requires an ongoing review of which metrics to prioritize. The Joint Commission has recently introduced new voluntary health care equity certification while acknowledging a need to reduce and eliminate unnecessary requirements. In this Open Forum, an inpatient psychiatrist and administrator reflects on the accreditation survey experience and suggests more closely aligning the reimbursement and reputational incentives associated with accreditation with effective, evidence-based interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"513-515"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143515971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to Xie and Chen.","authors":"Kevin H Nguyen, Sasha Zhou, Lan N Ðoàn","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20250073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20250073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":"76 5","pages":"531-532"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143991772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}