Category Archives: Research

Schizophrenic Woman, 9 Months Pregnant, Disappears From …

A schizophrenic woman who was nine months pregnant walked away from a Moreno Valley hospital Monday morning, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, prompting investigators to ask for the public's …

What Mental Health Courts Are Teaching Us About Rehabilitation …

Mental health courts sound like a great idea—just like the drug courts that inspired them. People with psychiatric disorders often have difficulty controlling their behavior; if you treat them effectively, you'll reduce crime and the …

Measuring Specific Mental Illness Diagnoses with Functional …

Download a PDF of "Measuring Specific Mental Illness Diagnoses with Functional Impairment" by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for free. Description: The workshop summarized in this report was organized …

California Case Shows How Mental Health Cuts Overload ERs …

States cut five billion dollars in mental health services from 2009 to 2012, according to USA Today. A new article online in Annals of Emergency.

Validation of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and GAD …

The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) was developed in the USA as a valuable screening tool for detecting GAD in primary care patients [15]. The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2 (GAD-2) is a short version of the tool …