Background Peer support provides the opportunity for peers with experiential knowledge of
a mental illness to give emotional, appraisal and informational assistance to current service …

Objective: To determine and estimate the efficacy of discharge planning interventions in
mental health care from in‐patient to out‐patient treatment on improving patient outcome …

OBJECTIVES: Continuity of care is considered to be essential to the effective treatment of
persons with severe mental illness, yet evidence to support the association between …

The authors describe the development, reliability testing, and validation of a 17-item
instrument that measures the level of functioning of chronically mentally ill persons living in …

The outcomes of a reform of the Denver mental health system, cosponsored by the state and
the RWJF, are contrasted with changes in a comparison area of the state. The study …

Labeling theory predicts that psychotic patients who accept the label of mental illness will
function less well than those who reject their diagnosis. Accepted psychotherapeutic theory …

Objective: To examine the prevalence and profile of people with co-occurring mental and
substance use disorders in relation to numerous demographic, diagnostic, and needs …

Abstract The Multidimensional Scale of Independent Functioning (MSIF) is a new instrument
for rating functional disability in psychiatric outpatients. The MSIF differs from other disability …

Abstract The Colorado Symptom Index (CSI: Shern et al. 1994, Milbank Quart 72: 123–148)
is widely used in research as a self-report measure of psychiatric symptomatology, yet little …

A single point-in-time count in January 2010 found 649,917 homeless people in the United
States, of whom 109,812 were chronically homeless and 246,374 were unsheltered …