Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Use Among Young Adults with Serious Mental Illness
Community Ment Health J. 2024 Mar 1. doi: 10.1007/s10597-024-01246-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo inform early intervention, this study describes correlates of substance use among young people with serious mental illness (SMI) enrolled in integrated care in community mental health settings. 227 adults ages 18-35 were assessed for clinical characteristics and substance use. Logistic regressions were used to describe relationships between substance use and participant characteristics. Over a third (38.9%) reported daily cannabis, 15.9% past month other illicit drug, 13.5% frequent/heavy alcohol and 47.4% any of these; 5...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Joelle C Ferron Mary F Brunette Kelly A Aschbrenner Mohamed W ElSayed Sarah I Pratt Source Type: research
Antipsychotics and Identity: The Adverse Effect No One is Talking About
Community Ment Health J. 2024 Mar 1. doi: 10.1007/s10597-024-01255-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeople who take antipsychotics, and people who are prescribed antipsychotics without taking them, experience effects which are not frequently discussed: effects on their identity and sense of self. Qualitative research indicates the relationship between taking APs and identity is multilayered, and changeable. Taking APs can restore people to their earlier, pre-symptom sense of self. Being prescribed and taking APs can also, on the other hand, be experienced as damaging, erasing and dulling people's sense of who they are. Thi...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: M Conneely D Roe I Hasson-Ohayon G H M Pijnenborg L van der Meer H Speyer Source Type: research
Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Use Among Young Adults with Serious Mental Illness
Community Ment Health J. 2024 Mar 1. doi: 10.1007/s10597-024-01246-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo inform early intervention, this study describes correlates of substance use among young people with serious mental illness (SMI) enrolled in integrated care in community mental health settings. 227 adults ages 18-35 were assessed for clinical characteristics and substance use. Logistic regressions were used to describe relationships between substance use and participant characteristics. Over a third (38.9%) reported daily cannabis, 15.9% past month other illicit drug, 13.5% frequent/heavy alcohol and 47.4% any of these; 5...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Joelle C Ferron Mary F Brunette Kelly A Aschbrenner Mohamed W ElSayed Sarah I Pratt Source Type: research
Antipsychotics and Identity: The Adverse Effect No One is Talking About
Community Ment Health J. 2024 Mar 1. doi: 10.1007/s10597-024-01255-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeople who take antipsychotics, and people who are prescribed antipsychotics without taking them, experience effects which are not frequently discussed: effects on their identity and sense of self. Qualitative research indicates the relationship between taking APs and identity is multilayered, and changeable. Taking APs can restore people to their earlier, pre-symptom sense of self. Being prescribed and taking APs can also, on the other hand, be experienced as damaging, erasing and dulling people's sense of who they are. Thi...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: M Conneely D Roe I Hasson-Ohayon G H M Pijnenborg L van der Meer H Speyer Source Type: research
A Change of Paradigm in the Management of Acute Psychiatric Episodes? A Retrospective Cohort Study on Trajectories of Use of Clinical Resources After the Implementation of Intensive Home-Treatment
This study shows that some -or even all- recurrences of some subjects were successfully managed with IHT, providing real-world evidence for its use in acute psychiatric conditions.PMID:38424398 | DOI:10.1007/s10597-024-01236-z (Source: Community Mental Health Journal)
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ana Mart ín-Blanco Alba Gonz ález-Fernández Adriana Farr é Maria Sagu é-Vilavella Sara Vieira David Gim énez Patricia Alvaro Clara Isern Cristina Torres Vicente de la Cruz Carlos Mart ín N úria Moll Maria Jes ús Portella Source Type: research
The Capacity-to-Serve Model as a Data-Driven Process for Provider Capacity Management in Outpatient Community Mental Health
Community Ment Health J. 2024 Feb 27. doi: 10.1007/s10597-024-01251-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite increasing mental health provider supply shortages, research on capacity planning and management in the field of outpatient community mental healthcare is limited. There is an immediate need for strategies to plan and manage the capacity of existing mental healthcare providers to ensure a balance between demand and resources. To address this need, research on capacity planning and management in healthcare and mental healthcare settings is reviewed. Next, the Capacity-to-Serve Model is introduced and defined as a dat...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 27, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sonyia Richardson Sean Joe Source Type: research
The Capacity-to-Serve Model as a Data-Driven Process for Provider Capacity Management in Outpatient Community Mental Health
Community Ment Health J. 2024 Feb 27. doi: 10.1007/s10597-024-01251-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite increasing mental health provider supply shortages, research on capacity planning and management in the field of outpatient community mental healthcare is limited. There is an immediate need for strategies to plan and manage the capacity of existing mental healthcare providers to ensure a balance between demand and resources. To address this need, research on capacity planning and management in healthcare and mental healthcare settings is reviewed. Next, the Capacity-to-Serve Model is introduced and defined as a dat...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 27, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sonyia Richardson Sean Joe Source Type: research
The Capacity-to-Serve Model as a Data-Driven Process for Provider Capacity Management in Outpatient Community Mental Health
Community Ment Health J. 2024 Feb 27. doi: 10.1007/s10597-024-01251-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite increasing mental health provider supply shortages, research on capacity planning and management in the field of outpatient community mental healthcare is limited. There is an immediate need for strategies to plan and manage the capacity of existing mental healthcare providers to ensure a balance between demand and resources. To address this need, research on capacity planning and management in healthcare and mental healthcare settings is reviewed. Next, the Capacity-to-Serve Model is introduced and defined as a dat...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 27, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sonyia Richardson Sean Joe Source Type: research
Experiences of Clients and Professionals with the Recovery Oriented Intake
This study compared experiences with ROI and IAU among 127 clients and 391 professionals, consisting of practitioners and peer experts. Intake's quality, measured with questionnaires, showed no differences in experiences between ROI and IAU clients. However, practitioners experienced ROI as more recovery-oriented than IAU. The ROI Fidelity Check (RFC) revealed that clients' RFC-scores, but not practitioners', predicted their valuation of intake's quality. This underscores the need for (re)training and peer supervision for professionals to ensure adherence to ROI's principles. Discrepancies between clients' and professional...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Fabiana Engelsbel Nanette Waterhout Marty Dijkstra Ren é Keet Annet Nugter Source Type: research
Experiences of Clients and Professionals with the Recovery Oriented Intake
This study compared experiences with ROI and IAU among 127 clients and 391 professionals, consisting of practitioners and peer experts. Intake's quality, measured with questionnaires, showed no differences in experiences between ROI and IAU clients. However, practitioners experienced ROI as more recovery-oriented than IAU. The ROI Fidelity Check (RFC) revealed that clients' RFC-scores, but not practitioners', predicted their valuation of intake's quality. This underscores the need for (re)training and peer supervision for professionals to ensure adherence to ROI's principles. Discrepancies between clients' and professional...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Fabiana Engelsbel Nanette Waterhout Marty Dijkstra Ren é Keet Annet Nugter Source Type: research
Experiences of Clients and Professionals with the Recovery Oriented Intake
This study compared experiences with ROI and IAU among 127 clients and 391 professionals, consisting of practitioners and peer experts. Intake's quality, measured with questionnaires, showed no differences in experiences between ROI and IAU clients. However, practitioners experienced ROI as more recovery-oriented than IAU. The ROI Fidelity Check (RFC) revealed that clients' RFC-scores, but not practitioners', predicted their valuation of intake's quality. This underscores the need for (re)training and peer supervision for professionals to ensure adherence to ROI's principles. Discrepancies between clients' and professional...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Fabiana Engelsbel Nanette Waterhout Marty Dijkstra Ren é Keet Annet Nugter Source Type: research
Autoethnographic Reflections on Mental Distress and Medication Management: Conceptualising Biomedical and Recovery Models of Mental Health
This article uses autoethnography to explore the author's lived experiences of mental distress and how she has conceptualised and explained these symptoms to herself using both the biomedical and recovery models of care. Autoethnography is a process of personal reflection that enables connection between the personal and the political. Experiences of mental distress are recounted alongside the decision to reduce medication. This personal experience is then explored in the context of limited evidence base on the effectiveness of reducing medication and the situation in which prescribers often feel reluctant to recommend and ...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Joanna Fox Source Type: research
The Effect of a Mindful Self-Compassion Intervention on Burden, Express Emotion and Mental Well-Being in Family Caregivers of Patients with Schizophrenia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The objective of this randomized controlled trial was to examine the impact of a mindful self-compassion intervention on burden, express emotion, and mental well-being in family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Standardized measures, including the ZARIT Caregiving Burden Scale, Expressed Emotion Scale and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale, were administered at baseline, post-intervention. Statistical analysis was conducted to assess differences between the two groups. Significant reductions in caregiver burden, expressed emotion, and enhanced mental well-being in the intervention group compared to the con...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Neslihan L ök Kerime Bademli Source Type: research
Autoethnographic Reflections on Mental Distress and Medication Management: Conceptualising Biomedical and Recovery Models of Mental Health
This article uses autoethnography to explore the author's lived experiences of mental distress and how she has conceptualised and explained these symptoms to herself using both the biomedical and recovery models of care. Autoethnography is a process of personal reflection that enables connection between the personal and the political. Experiences of mental distress are recounted alongside the decision to reduce medication. This personal experience is then explored in the context of limited evidence base on the effectiveness of reducing medication and the situation in which prescribers often feel reluctant to recommend and ...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Joanna Fox Source Type: research
The Effect of a Mindful Self-Compassion Intervention on Burden, Express Emotion and Mental Well-Being in Family Caregivers of Patients with Schizophrenia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The objective of this randomized controlled trial was to examine the impact of a mindful self-compassion intervention on burden, express emotion, and mental well-being in family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Standardized measures, including the ZARIT Caregiving Burden Scale, Expressed Emotion Scale and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale, were administered at baseline, post-intervention. Statistical analysis was conducted to assess differences between the two groups. Significant reductions in caregiver burden, expressed emotion, and enhanced mental well-being in the intervention group compared to the con...
Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Neslihan L ök Kerime Bademli Source Type: research
