Colloquium Series on Research in Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Sponsored by the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
SHRP-UMDNJ
Open to the Public
1776 Raritan Road
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
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Upcoming Colloquium Series Presents:
Erin Martz, PhD
Rehabilitation Counseling Program, University of Memphis
Coping as a Moderator of Disability and Psychosocial Adaptation Among Vietnam Theater Veterans
Friday, May 2, 2008—10 am to 12pm: Scotch Plains-Rm 330; Stratford-Rm 278
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Past Series could be viewed from here:
Uri Aviram
Friday, April 11, 2008—10 am to 12pm: Scotch Plains-Rm 506; Stratford-Rm 278
Stumbling Reform of Mental Health Service in Israel: Factors Hindering Transference of the Locus of Services to the Community
Dr. Uri Aviram is Zena Harman Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Chairperson of the Israel National Council for the Rehabilitation in the Community of Persons with a Mental Disability. Prior to his current position, he was a professor at the Institutes of Health Care Policy and Aging Research and the School of Social Work at Rutgers University. At Rutgers, he established and directed the Community Mental Health Program. In addition, Dr. Aviram has had visiting appointments at Case Western Reserve University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Melbourne, The University of Sydney and Cornell University. His publications include: The Mentally Ill in Community Based Sheltered Care: A Study of Community Care and Social Integration, Community Mental Health in Israel, Psychiatric Treatment and Civil Liberties, Social Work in Mental Health and Mental Health Services in Israel: Trends and Issues. His main areas of interest are community care for severely mentally ill persons, social planning and policy development and the interface between psychiatry and law. In addition to his interest in the mental health field, Dr. Aviram has been involved in studies that assessed culturally sensitive social work education, longitudinal study on professional careers of social workers and social policy development matters. The results of these studies are his most recent publications: Social Work Education in Israel and Social Policy Development in Israel.
The topic that Dr. Aviram will disucuss assesses efforts to reform the mental health services system in Israel. It is aimed to understand why those efforts which involved transferrring the locus of treatment and care from the mental health hospital system to the community have consistently failed over the last 35 years. An attempt is being made to identify factors that have hindered the efforts to change the policy and factors that might have facilitated the planned reforms. The results of the analysis of this study as well as facilitation of strategies also will be discussed.
Jean Campbell, PhD
Jean Campbell, PhD, research associate professor, directs the Program in Consumer Studies and Training at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health. As an internationally known mental health consumer researcher, speaker, and consultant, she is a forerunner in the effort to define recovery and well-being of mental health service recipients in research and report cards, study and to promote multi-stakeholder approaches in evaluation and service delivery. Currently, she is working with the Missouri Department of Mental Health to promote consumer-operated service programs as an evidence-based practice and is part of the national effort to develop the COSP Evidence Based Practices KIT for SAMHSA. Dr. Campbell was the Principal Investigator of a coordinating center for a large, multi-site federal research initiative to study the cost-effectiveness of consumer-operated programs as an adjunct to traditional mental health services. She has also developed an evaluation protocol to study outcomes of community based peer support programs, researched the core competencies of consumer-operated programs, wrote a guidebook on conducting consumer satisfaction assessments, and consulted on an epidemiological study of organized self-help groups in the United States . She was a consultant to the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, and led the effort to develop a consumer research plank for the National Mental Health Consumer Summit as part of her goal to establish a consumer research agenda. In addition, she has worked with state mental health agencies in New York , Oklahoma , Washington , Nebraska , West Virginia and Alaska on mental health performance measurement systems. Dr. Campbell served as chair of the Research and Evaluation Technical Advisory Group for the Consumer Organization Networking Technical Assistance Center (CONTAC), the Work Group for Computerization of Behavioral Health and Human Services Records, the Professional Technical Advisory Committee of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Organizations, and was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services, and the Advisory Board of the Evaluation Center at HSRI. She has written over forty articles and reports on the development and use of management information systems in service system improvement, shared decision-making, privacy of health records, peer-support programs and consumer health informatics. Dr. Campbell is a trained group facilitator and has pioneered the use of concept-mapping focus group technologies for planning, development, consensus building and evaluation. From 1992-1994 she was Director of Research, Quality Assurance, and Information Systems for the Maine Department of Mental Health. Her doctoral degree is in social sciences from the University of California-Irvine, and she completed an NIMH post-doctoral fellowship in mental health services research at the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill and Duke University . Dr Campbell is best known for her ground-breaking work as Principal Investigator of the Well-Being Project (1986-1989), the watershed consumer-directed survey research project that identified the factors that promoted and deterred the well-being of people commonly labeled as mentally ill in California . The first consumer research project ever conducted, the project developed three interview protocols, trained consumers as researchers, surveyed face-to-face over 500 respondents, and produced: (1) a report entitled The Well-Being Project: Mental Health Clients Speak for Themselves, (2) an award-winning 56 minute video-documentary called People Say I'm Crazy, and, (3) a compendium of statistics, oral history, art, poetry and prose by the same name. In the past few years, she has presented her research at international conferences, including the first international user-research conference, "In Search of User Voices," in London , England , the International Congress of the Law and Mental Health in Sienna , Italy , and the World Congress of Mental Health in Melbourne , Australia in 2003. In 1995 she was awarded the University of Missouri Diversity Achievement Award and she received the Silver Key Award from the Mental Health Association of Greater Saint Louis in 2004.
Comparison to Domain Scores to National Benchmark
Lisa Razzano, PhD
Lisa Razzano, PhD is a social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry with tenure in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently, she is the Director of Research for the UIC National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability and principal investigator for other federally-funded programs at the Department's Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy (CMHSRP). Dr. Razzano has over 16 years of experience in mental health services and rehabilitation research, including projects in areas such as psychiatric services, psychosocial rehabilitation, vocational services and employment outcomes, and the mental health aspects of HIV/AIDS, as well as expertise in evaluation and biostatistics. She is the author of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, technical reports, and evidence-based training materials regarding psychiatric rehabilitation and mental health services research, and has presented outcomes and results from her own projects, as well as those of the CMHSRP at more than 100 professional conferences, federal project meetings, and consumer/advocacy organizations. Dr. Razzano is an elected member of the Research Committee of the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA), and served as committee chair in 2004-2005. In 2004, Dr. Razzano was selected as one of 15 national scholars in the Primary Study Group for the Rehabilitation Services Administration's 30th Institute on Rehabilitation Issues focused on “Innovative Models of Vocational Rehabilitation” at the U.S. Department of Education, and is co-author of a federal monograph on that topic. In May 2005, Dr. Razzano was the recipient of the Armin Loeb Award from USPRA for Excellence in psychiatric rehabilitation and services research.
December 13, 2007
Research
and Program Adaptations in Supported Employment
December 14, 2007
Advancing Evidence Based Practices
in Mental Health Services for Jail Detainees
Karin Brockelman, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow Colloquium
Exploring Relationships among Self-Determination, GPA, and Use
of Mental Health among University Students
The overarching goal of this dissertation study was to examine the relationships among self-determination, mental health service use, and GPAs of university students. A secondary purpose was exploring students' perceptions of their self-determination and use of mental health services. The design of this study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. A web-based survey was the predominant data source, with face-to-face interviews to complement the survey data. Students with high self-determination tended to have high GPAs and the GPAs of students who used mental health services did not differ from their peers who used no mental health services. Students who used mental health services in the community tended to have lower self-determination than students who used other mental health services. For students who share similar levels of self-determination, using a combination of mental health services on campus and in the community was predictive of lower GPAs.
Karin Brockelman completed her Ph.D. in Special Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May of 2007. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation here at UMDNJ.
Phyllis Solomon, PhD
Dr. Solomon is internationally known for her research on clinical services and service system issues related to adults with severe mental illness and their families. Her research has specifically focused on family interventions, consumer provided services, and the intersection of criminal justice and mental health services. Her expertise is in mental health service delivery issues, psychiatric rehabilitation, and research methods. Her research has been recognized by such diverse organizations as American Association of Community Psychiatrists, US Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, and Society for Social Work and Research. For more details of her work, see the following link: http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/people/faculty/solomon/
March
29, 2007
Consumer
Operated Services
March
30, 2007
Family Intervention
Jeanette Ellis, MA
Peggy Swarbrick, PhD
Carlos Pratt, PhD
Ann Murphy, MA
Staff members of Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey and Self-help Center Participants
The FACIT/SHOUT Project: Developing a Fidelity Scale for Consumer Operated Self-Help Centers
The use of consumer operated services (COS) has proliferated in recent years spurred on by the consumer movement and managed care, which views it as a source of inexpensive services. Research supports the use of COS , with evidence demonstrating COS are at least as effective as traditional mental health services. New Jersey has funded 27 consumer operated self-help centers around the state. These centers are designed to provide friendly warm environments where people can make friends, find support and begin the process of recovery. Research to date has not evaluated which elements of COS , and in this specific case self-help centers, are related to positive outcomes. This is the basic issue the FACIT Project has set out to address.
The FACIT is a self-help center fidelity scale developed with SAMHSA funding. Combining fidelity assessments of self-help centers with data from a state wide, consumer designed and operated data collection system (dubbed SHOUT) and additional data collected for this project will allow us to relate self-help center characteristics to consumer outcomes.
The goal of this colloquium is for the FACIT team to glean constructive criticism and creative ideas to assist this project going forward.
February
16, 2007
FACIT
Jill Williams, MD
Addressing Tobacco in Mental Health Settings
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Jill Williams, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Mental Health Tobacco Services at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School . Dr. Williams is the recipient of a National Institute on Drug Abuse Career Development Award (K23), entitled, Nicotine Dependence Treatment in Psychiatric Comorbidity. Dr. Williams specializes in the development of pharmacologic and psychosocial treatments for tobacco dependence in schizophrenia and is also the Co-PI on the Treatment of Addiction to Nicotine in Schizophrenia Grant, which is a behavioral therapy development project (Ziedonis, PI).
Dr. Williams received her residency training at Duke University where she was the Executive Chief Resident. She completed an Addictions fellowship at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and is the recipient of several awards including the Alcohol Medical Scholars Program, the APA American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education-Janssen Pharmaceutica Public Policy Leadership Program Fellow, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) 's Research Colloquium for Junior Investigators, and the George Ginsberg-American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) Charter Fellowship.
She is an expert in nicotine dependence and psychiatric co-morbidity and worked on several important national and state initiatives related to tobacco and mental health including a National Advisory Panel sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on the topic of Addressing Tobacco among Individuals with Mental Illness or Addiction. She co-edited of the July 2003 Issue of Psychiatric Annals on Addressing Tobacco Use in Mental Health and Addiction Settings, with Dr Douglas Ziedonis, which was the first issue of this journal dedicated entirely to tobacco. Her work in tobacco and mental health has been highlighted in JAMA Medical News and Perspectives (Sept 2004) and APA President Michelle Riba's Column in Psychiatric News (April 2005). The focus of her recent work is increasing the demand for tobacco treatment services among smokers with mental illness by working directly to educate them. She serves as a Consultant on Tobacco to the Mental Health Association of New Jersey (MHANJ). Dr Williams is the PI on research collaboration with the MHANJ and funded by the American Legacy Foundation entitled, “Using Peer Counselors for Addressing Tobacco among Mental Health Consumers” which is an innovative proposal to use peer counselors to educate and motivate with smokers with mental illness to seek treatment.
Steven M. Silverstein, PhD
Attention Shaping as Supported Cognition for Schizophrenia
Dr. Steven M. Silverstein is the director of the Division of Schizophrenia Research at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School . He has been the principal investigator on several grants examining the cognitive-perceptual impairments in schizophrenia. Many of these studies examined visual and auditory perceptual organization deficits in schizophrenia. His recent research has demonstrated that these deficits are examples of a more widespread processing dysfunction in the coordination of cognitive activity. Evidence for this comes from the consistent findings of links between impairments in perceptual organization, and deficits in the organization of linguistic and motor activity in schizophrenia. Dr. Silverstein has also received NIMH R01 funding for his work in the area of cognitive rehabilitation of schizophrenia. These studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of using behavioral approaches, specifically the technique of shaping, to improve attentiveness and participation among consumers with schizophrenia who are considered “treatment-refractory”. Dr. Silverstein is currently PI on a multi-site grant which is developing and evaluating the effectiveness of a manualized attention shaping intervention. Lastly, Dr. Silverstein has been active in the area of research methodology. He has written papers addressing methodological issues in hypnosis research, methods to avoid the problem of the generalized deficit in schizophrenia research, the use of intraclass correlation in staff training and program evaluation research, and he has developed several new measures for assessing cognition in schizophrenia.
Christine Peters, PhD, OTR
Occupational Therapy's Professional Development: A Historical Analysis
Chris Peters, PhD, OTR is a Post-Doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation at UMDNJ, Scotch Plains Campus.
A brief description of the presentation: History can inform today's practice. Dr. Peters will present her research about occupational therapy's profession evolution during post Cold War America. Introducing historical inquiry to the audience, she will share how leaders and scholars shaped the profession scientifically, philosophically and politically.
Margaret Swarbrick, PhD, CPRP
Examination of the Impact of a Peer Delivered Recovery and Wellness Program
Margaret Swarbrick, PhD, CPRP, is the Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives Training Director for Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, a large consumer-operated self-help organization in New Jersey. CSP employees many persons living with a mental illness in many capacities within the agency structure (full time there are over 45 consumers working and part-time over 120 consumers working).
Peggy has been involved in the mental health field since 1977 personally and professionally since 1986. Peggy was able to access work and education as key tools for personal recovery and has been able to articulate the value of work and meaningful occupation as key elements for recovery and well-being. Dr. Swarbrick is currently a post doctoral fellow in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program at university of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ (Psychiatric rehabilitation Program) and also worked as an adjunct faculty for two occupational therapy programs in New Jersey. Peggy worked in as an occupational therapist in a variety of settings (state hospital, crisis intervention unit, partial hospital program, congnitive rehabilitation and home health care) designing and delivering services focused on wellness and recovery. Peggy successful passed her doctoral oral examination on July 5, 2005. The dissertation study focused on examination of the relationship between the social environment of consumer operated self-help centers and its effects on member empowerment and satisfaction.
A brief description of the presentation: Peer delivered services are a promising practice and are a viable resource that consumers can access for support. The Recovery Network program was designed by and for mental health consumers at the five state psychiatric hospitals in New Jersey The presentation will review the program model and implementation as well as challenges to date. Preliminary program evaluation data collected to date will be discussed. Colloquium participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm ideas for two possible futures studies that can be designed to examine the impact of this peer delivered approach.
Petra Kottsieper, PhD, MEd
Petra Kottsieper, PhD, MEd, is a Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation at UMDNJ, Scotch Plains Campus.
A brief description
of the presentation: Aftercare appointment non-adherence and rehospitalization
of individuals with serious mental illnesses has personal, economic, and clinical
costs. Seventy-four participants were recruited from a hospital-based psychiatric
unit to investigate factors associated with initial aftercare non-adherence,
and rehospitalization in a 3-month post-discharge follow-up period. In addition
to demographic, clinical, and system risk factors, this research investigated
variables approximating the Health Belief Model(HBM) and the Transtheoretical
Model of Change(TTM) as theoretical frameworks to predict health-care decision
making. Two separate logistic regression analyses were conducted to establish
which model best accounted for the two outcomes. Results, implications, study
limitations, and future directions will be discussed.
November 3, 2006
Predicting Initial Aftercare Appointment Adherence and Rehospitalization for
Individuals with Serious Mental Illness Discharged from an Acute Inpatient
Stay
Philip T. Yanos, PhD
Philip T. Yanos, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Hohn Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He is currently supported by an NIMH-funded Career Development Award focused on increasing the knowledge base on the relationship between coping and community functioning among people diagnosed with severe mental illness. He has been involved in research on recovery and been striving to provide recovery-oriented clinical services with people diagnosed with severe mental illness since 1995. A major area of interest is the way in which individual (e.g., coping) and systemic (e.q., housing and financing of services) factors impact the degree to which people with severe mental illness are able to achieve recovery, with an emphasis on how these factors can be influenced through intervention or policy change to maximize opportunities for recovery.
October 5, 2006
A Clarification of the Construct of Coping as it
Relates to People Diagnosed with Major Mental Illness
October 6, 2006
Issues in Housing and Community Integration for
People with Major Mental Iillness
Research articles by Dr. Yanos can be viewed from here:
Yanos PT, Barrow SM, Tsemberis S.
Yanos PT, Knight EL, Bremer L.
Yanos PT, Roe D.
Donald
M. Linhorst, PhD, MSW
Saint Louis University
Donald M. Linhorst, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Saint Louis University. He recently authored the book Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness: A Practical Guide, published by Oxford University Press. Prior toe entering academia, he worked for 14 years with people with mental illness, including seven years at an agency that provided supported housing services and operated a psychosocial rehabilitation center, and seven years at a state psychiatric hospital for clients committed primarily by the criminal courts. He has published widely in various areas of mental health, particularly empowerment and the insanity defense. His current research interests include empowerment; use of the harm reduction approach with persons diagnosed with the co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance abuse; and the intersection of the mental health and criminal justice systems, including the insanity defense, mental health courts, and substance abuse treatment in jails and prisons.
September 14, 2006
The Role
of Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Promoting Empowerment Among People with Mental
Illness
September 15, 2006
Empowering
People with Mental Illness Residing in State Psychiatric Hospitals
Robert
Drake, MD, PhD
Dartmouth Medical School
Robert Drake, MD, PhD, is the Andrew Thomson Professor of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and the Director of the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center. He has been at Dartmouth for 20 years. In addition to working actively as a clinician in community mental health center for 25 years, he has been developing and evaluating innovative community programs for persons with severe mental disorders. he is well known for his work in rehabilitation and diverse aspects of adjustment and quality of life among persons with severe mental disorders and those in their support systems.
June 29, 2006
Future of
Evidence-Based Practices in Mental Health
June 30, 2006
Future of
Evidence - Based Practices in Mental Health: Continued
Xavier
Amador, PhD
Columbia University
Xavier Amador, PhD, is an adjunct professor in Clinical Psychology at Teacher's College, Columbia University in New York City and is on the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). Dr. Amador was co-chair of the last text revision of the Schizophrenia and related disorders section of the DSM IV-TR (often referred to as the Psychiatrists' Bible). Previously, he was a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons; Director of Research at NAMI; and the Director of Psychology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and many other publications that include five books; among them: I am Not Sick, I bDon't Need Help!? When Someone You Love is Depressed: how to Help Without Losing yourself; and Insight and psychosis. His books and other publications have been translated into 18 languages and are frequently cited by scientists and policy-makers worldwide. Dr. Amador's expert opinon is frequently sought by the news media. He has worked as an NBC News Consultant and Today Show Contributor, and has also appeared regularly on numerous other programs: e.g., NBC's Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, CBS 60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time Live, CNN, NBC Dateline, Fox News Channel, Cout TV, A&E Network, Discovery Channel, BBC, and PBS among others. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, USA Today, Reader's Digest, the New Yorker, and other national print media. In addition to national media, he is frequently called upon for local TV, radio and newspaper interviews, both in the USA and overseas. For more detailed information, see http://www.xavieramador.com
May 4, 2006
I
am not sick, I don't need help! Part I
May 5, 2006
I am not sick, I don't need help! Part II
Sam J. Tsemberis, PhD
Sam Tsemberis, PhD, who founded Pathways to Housing in 1992, advocates for housing as a basic right for all people and is credited with establishing the Housing First movement. Pathways to Housing, which he directs, provides immediate access to independent permanent apartments to individuals who are homeless and who have psychiatric diasabilities and substance use disorders. Dr. Tsemberis also assists agencies in cities around the nation to develop Housing First programs. These programs successfully demonstrate that providing persons with their own housing is a powerful first step towards recovery; rather than a distant goal to be achieved only after their psychiatric symptoms and addictions have been stabilized. A faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry, New york University, Dr. Tesemberis' research and innovations have received wide recognition from sources including the Center for Mental Health Services, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, and the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. In October 2005 Pathways received the American Psychiatric Association Psychiatric Services Gold Award for first place in programs for community mental health program. Pathways to Housing has been profiled by National Public Rado's All things Considered, Public Broadcasting System's (PBS) The Newshour with Jim Leher, and Religion and Ethics and written about in The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor. There are currently more than 15 replication of the Pathways program across the country each achieving remarkable success in ending homeless for people with psychiatric disabilities. (For more information please see http://www.pathwaystohousing.org)
April 6, 2006
History, Philosophy, and Practice of Housing First: with Results from a 3
Year Study
Housing First in the Context of the Nation's Plans to End Chronic Homelessness: Issues of Replication and Fidelity to a Model
Margaret Swarbrick, PhD
Margaret Swarbrick, PhD, is the Institute for Wellness and recovery Initiatives Training Director for Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, a large consumer-operated self-help organization in New jersey. CSP employees many persons living with a mental illness in many capacities within the agency structure (full time there are over 45 consumers working and part-time over 120 consumers working). Peggy has been involved in the mental health field since 1977 personally and professionally since 1986. Peggy was able to access work and education as key tools for personal recovery and has been able to articulate the value of work and meaningful occupation as key elements for recovery and well-being. Dr. Swarbrick is currently a post doctoral fellow in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program at University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ (Psychiatric rehabilitation Program) and also worked as an adjunct faculty for two occupational therapy programs in New jersey. Peggy worked in as an occupational therapist in a variety of settings (state hospital, crisis intervention unit, partial hospital program, cognitive rehabilitation and home health care) designing and delivering services focused on wellness and recovery. Peggy successful passed her doctoral oral examination on July 5, 2005. The dissertation study focused on examination of the relationship between the social environment of consumer operated self-help centers and its effects on member empowerment and satisfaction.
March 16, 2006
Consumer
Operated Self-Help Centers: The Relationship Between the Social Environment
& its Association with Empowerment & Satisfaction
The Tales & Woes of Completing a Dissertation Proposal
John
Strauss, MD
Yale University
John Strauss, MD, is a psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Yale University School of Medicine. He has held several senior positions including collaborating investigator with the World Health Organization, chief Psychiatric Assessment Section at NIMH, Consultant on the DSM-III, Director of Yale Psychiatric Institute and director of the Center for Studies of Prolonged Psychiatric Disorder at Yale. John Strauss has received world recognition for a wide range of clinical research he carried out with persons who have severe mental disorders. These studies have focused on issues of diagnosis, course of disorder, and the processes of improvement and subjective experience. During his distinguished career, which included 20 years of NIMH funding, he has wrote books, published over two hundred articles, served on many editorial boards and received several professional honors and recognition, including the Armin Loeb Award of the International Association of psycho-Social Research Services for Rehabilitation Research (1990) and Distinguished Life Fellow award from the American psychiatric Association, 1997.
March 9, 2006
Being Human & Mental Illness
March 10, 2006
Research & the Real World of Patients
Bruce
Link, PhD
Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University
Bruce G. Link, PhD, is Research Scientist at new york State psychiatric Institute and professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry) at the Mailman School of Public health of Columbia University. Dr. link received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 1980 where he received training in psychiatric epidemiology. Upon completing his Ph.D., Dr. link took a Masters Degree in Biostatistics also from Columbia University. He joined the faculty of the School of Public Health in 1981 and has remained at Columbia ever since. he received the Leonard Pearlin Award for career achievement from the Mental health Section of the American Sociological Association and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2002. Dr. Link's interests are centered on topics in psychiatric and social epidemiology. he has written on the connection between socioeconomic status and health, homelessness, violence, stigma and discrimination. Currently he is conducting research aimed at understanding: 1) health disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, 2) the consequences of social stigma for people with mental illnesses, 3) the connection between mental illnesses and violent behaviors, and 4) the effects of outpatient commitment on people with serious mental illnesses. He is the Director of the Psychiatric Epidemiology training Program, the Director of the Center for Violence Research and Prevention and a Director (with Peter Bearman) of the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program at Columbia University.
February 16, 2006
On
Stigma and its Consequences for People with Mental Illnesses
Toward an Understanding of Stigma in the Lives of People with Mental Illnesses
Sue
Estroff, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sue Estroff, PhD, is a professor of Anthropology, Psychiatry and Social Medicine. An anthropologist by training, she is the author of the landmark ethnographic study of persons with severe mental illness, Making It Crazy, and was one of the first anthropologists to examine issues having to do with severe mental illness from an anthropological perspective. She is primarily interested in sociocultural forces that influence the biographical experiences of persons with disabling chronic illnesses. In her work, she seeks to illuminate the interrelations between social and personal experience and prognosis. Some of the sociocultural factors that have occupied her attention in research are: representations of illness and identity; individual economies of disability; the impact of disability income on identity and illness trajectory; and how use of mental health or psychiatric services influences self labeling and illness accounts among persons with major psychiatric disorders. She is also interested in exploring how interpersonal and contextual factors influence the occurrence of violence by persons with serious mental illnesses, as well as how such violence is conceived of and operationalized by researchers with varied agendas and training. The study of persons with serious mental illness has occupied most of her research career, and while she specializes in qualitative methods, increasingly she is combining them with quantitative analysis techniques.
January 19, 2006
Authenticity,
Accuracy, Authorship, and Authority: Vocabularies and Vocalizations of Schizophrenia
January 20, 2006
You Want to Measure What? Unapologetic Qualitative Inquiry
Larry
Davidson, PhD
Yale Medical School
Larry Davidson, PhD, is Director of the Program on Recovery and Community Health at Yale University, where he is an associate professor of psychology. He is an established investigator who has received national and international recognition for research on processes of recovery in serious mental illness, the effectiveness of peer support and consumer-run programs, and the development and evaluation of innovative recovery-oriented practices and transformation to recovery-oriented systems of care.
December 1, 2005
Recovery
in Serious Mental Illness: What it is and how to Promote it
December 2, 2005
Research on Recovery:
What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn
Paul
Lysaker, PhD
University of Indiana Medical School
Paul Lysaker, PhD, is a staff psychologist at the Roudbeush VA Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology Department of Psychiatry, Indiana university School of Medicine, both in Indianapolis. Lysaker has been involved in treatment and research in schizophrenia for over 16 years, and has published over one hundred articles in that area and is currently the proncipal investigator in a federally funded study of the effects of cognitive behavior therapy on work outcome in schizophrenia.
November 10, 2005
Effects
of Cognitive Based Psychotherapy on Vocational Rehabilitation in Schizophrenia
November 11, 2005
Self
Experience as a Domain of Recovery for Persons with Severe Mental Illness
David
Roe, PhD
Rutgers Institute of Health
David Roe, PhD, is a clinical psychologist fellow at the Institute of Health Research at Rutgers University. He is a consultant for the Center for Excellence in Psychiatry at UBHC/UMDNJ, implementing IMR in NJ. Most of his research focuses on the active role of the person in his or her recovery process and the implementation and efficacy of IMR.
October 27, 2005
Integrating Qualitative
and Quantitative Research to Understand and Improve Course and Outcome in
Severe Mental Illness
Different Ways to
Contribute to Knowledge and Conduct Research
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