We face increasing demand for greater access to effective routine mental health services, including telehealth. However, treatment outcomes in routine clinical practice are only about half the size of those reported in controlled trials. Progress …
Authors:
Kim de Jong, Susan Douglas, Miranda Wolpert, Jaime Delgadillo, Benjamin Aas, Bram Bovendeerd, Ingrid Carlier, Angelo Compare, Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Pauline Janse, Wolfgang Lutz, Christian Moltu, Samuel Nordberg, Stig Poulsen, Julian A. Rubel, Günter Schiepek, Viola N. L. S. Schilling, Maartje van Sonsbeek, Michael Barkham
To investigate the effect of psychosocial interventions on emotion regulation outcomes in children and youth (0–23 years). We conducted a meta-analysis using a three-level modeling approach extracting multiple effect-sizes from experimental and …
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Kristin Espenes, Anita J. Tørmoen, Kristian Rognstad, Karianne H. Nilsen, Pamela M. Waaler, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, John Kjøbli
In 2023, the White House included the implementation and improvement of assisted outpatient treatment in a list of under-researched strategies to support recovery and long-term treatment engagement for people with serious mental illness. Assisted …
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Elizabeth Sinclair Hancq, Mark Munetz, Shanti C. Silver, Hope A. Parker, Natalie Bonfine
Positive organizational climate — employee perceptions of their work environment and the impact of this environment on well-being and functioning — is associated with desirable organizational and client-level outcomes in mental health …
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Meredith R. Boyd, Kimberly D. Becker, Alayna L. Park, Kaitlyn Pham, Bruce F. Chorpita
Measurement-based care (MBC) research and practice, including clinical workflows and systems to support MBC, are grounded in adult-serving mental health systems. MBC research evidence is building in child and adolescent services, but MBC practice …
Authors:
Elizabeth H. Connors, Amber W. Childs, Susan Douglas, Amanda Jensen-Doss
People with mental illness are over-represented in the U.S. criminal legal system. Jail presents an optimal opportunity to provide needed mental health care as the entry point to corrections. However, there is a lack of programming available in …
The current study was designed to describe usual clinical care for youth with primary anxiety problems in community mental health centers. The observer-rated Therapy Process Observational Coding System for Child Psychotherapy – Revised Strategies …
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Bryce D. McLeod, Stephanie Violante, Erica Ross, Alexys Weihl, Navneet Kaur, Michael A. Southam-Gerow, Heather A. Jones, John R. Weisz, Bruce F. Chorpita
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model is the gold standard in community psychiatry serving people with severe mental illness. With its outreach-based design, the pandemic has profoundly affected the operations and functioning of ACT. The …
Authors:
Samuel Law, Aly Kassam, Michaela Beder, Saadia Sediqzadah, Matthew Levy, John Maher
Despite its demonstrated value, many mental health institutions struggle to implement progress feedback effectively. There is also insufficient information about how therapists utilize progress feedback. To gain more insight, two qualitative …
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Shaghayegh Azizian Kia, Lisette Wittkampf, Jacobine van Lankeren, Pauline Janse
This paper describes the successful implementation of Measurement-Based Care (MBC) within a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) for children and adolescents. Measurement-based care (MBC), the practice of using patient-reported measures routinely …
Authors:
Jill Donelan, Susan Douglas, Ariane Willson, Tyrena Lester, Stephanie Daly
Based on patient-reported outcomes data analyzed at the provider level, there is evidence that psychotherapists can possess effectiveness strengths and weaknesses when treating patients with different presenting concerns. These within-therapist …
Authors:
Alice E. Coyne, Michael J. Constantino, James F. Boswell, Averi N. Gaines, David R. Kraus
Open Access
29-03-2024 | Psychotherapy | Original Article
We aim to use topic modeling, an approach for discovering clusters of related words (“topics”), to predict symptom severity and therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy transcripts, while also identifying the most important topics and overarching …
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Christopher Lalk, Tobias Steinbrenner, Weronika Kania, Alexander Popko, Robin Wester, Jana Schaffrath, Steffen Eberhardt, Brian Schwartz, Wolfgang Lutz, Julian Rubel
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) allows measuring intra-individual processes moment by moment, identifying and modeling, in a naturalistic way, individual levels and changes in different psychological processes. However, active EMA requires a …
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Manuel Meglio, Rocío Tamara Manubens, Javier Fernández-Álvarez, Sofia Marasas, Fernando García, Beatríz Gómez, Julio Montedoro, Antonio Nicolás Jáuregui, Claudia Castañeiras, Pablo Santagnelo, Santiago Juan, Andrés Jorge Roussos, Juan Martín Gómez Penedo, Roberto Muiños
Disruptive behavior of patients in acute psychiatric care is a problem for both patients and staff. Preventing a patient’s impending disruption requires recognizing and understanding early signals. There are indications that a change in a …
The mental health treatment gap remains wide across the world despite mental illness being a significant cause of disability globally. Both end-user and healthcare provider perspectives are critical to understanding barriers to mental healthcare …
Authors:
Jeffrey Wang, Stanislav P. Pasyk, Claire Slavin-Stewart, Andrew T. Olagunju
Open Access
21-03-2024 | Psychotherapy | Original Article
Previous studies have shown that therapists’ performance varies, known as therapist effects, and have indicated that therapists who excel in one treatment outcome may not necessarily be effective in other outcomes. This observational naturalistic …
Health information exchange (HIE) is an effective way to coordinate care, but HIE between health and behavioral health providers is limited. Recent delivery reform models, including the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Patient Centered …
