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Is the Mental Health Recovery Movement Best for Patients?
April 16, 2013 | Story
A grantee explores the history and potential of the new approach to mental health policy and care.
Improving the Quality of Child Mental Health Care
March 11, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Bonnie Zima, an alumna of the RWJF Clinical Scholars program, published a study this month that appeared in a special supplement of Pediatrics on child health quality.
National Quality Measures for Child Mental Health Care
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Work is ongoing to refine child mental health quality measures.
Home Mental Health Care for Gunshot Victims
July 30, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
In the next six months, I met 39 other gunshot victims whose experiences closely mirrored Ervin’s. In different ways, each of these victims explained how getting shot was not only physically and psychologically trying, it was also a drain on their ...
Moving Mental Health into the Disaster-Preparedness Spotlight
September 23, 2010 | Commentary
related websites For an overview of RWJF scholar and fellow opportunities, visit www.RWJFLeaders.org Visit the REACH NOLA Web site Visit the RWJF Clinical Scholars Web site Substance abuse. Child abuse. Intimate partner violence. These are but some ...
Mental Health Problems and Help-Seeking Behavior among College Students
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Mental health disorders often go untreated on college campuses. This literature review summarizes research into the mental health of college students.
Improving Disaster Mental Health Care in Schools
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines post-disaster counseling services in schools following Hurricane Katrina. The researchers conducted focus groups to identify counseling services offered and barriers to care in schools.
Geriatric Patients Improve as Much as Younger Patients from Hospitalization on General Psychiatric Units
October 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The current study compared geriatric and younger adult psychiatric patients on outcomes such as improvement in symptoms, length of stay (LOS) in the hospital and readmission rates after one year.
The Manufacture of Recovery
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Paradigms shaping mental health policy have changed over the years; recovery is the most recent dominant paradigm.
Why Don’t Depressed People Live as Long as Others?
April 24, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jason Houle, recently published a study that finds association between depressive symptoms and mortality is due to later health problems, not prior physical health conditions.