Suicide is a leading cause of death. A substantial proportion of the people who die by
suicide come into contact with the health care system in the year before their death. This …

Importance Receiving a preferred treatment has previously been associated with lower
dropout rates and better clinical outcomes, but this scenario has not been investigated …

Depression is a disorder that affects feelings and thoughts in the form of feelings of
continuous sadness and a sense of loss of interest before doing an activity. One of the …

Treatments have been developed and tested to successfully reduce the symptoms and
disabilities of many mental illnesses. Unfortunately, people distressed by these illnesses …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 137 (6) of
Psychological Bulletin (see record 2011-24066-002). In the Samples section of Meta …

Evidence-based assessment (EBA) emphasizes the use of research and theory to inform the
selection of assessment targets, the methods and measures used in the assessment, and …

Suicide is a major public health problem, and suicide rates are still on the rise. Current
strategies for identifying individuals at risk for suicide, such as the use of a patient's self …

The present paper describes the development and validation of the HoardingRatingScale-
Interview (HRS-I), a brief (5–10 min) 5-item semi-structured interview that assesses the …

Objective This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the Primary Care
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Screen for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental …

Abstract Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are promising software to communicate
with patients but no study has tested them in the diagnostic field of mental disorders. The …