Willingness to Ask Tor Help Among Persons with Severe Mental illness: Call for Research.

There are times when people with severe mental illness (SMI) must be willing to ask for help (e.g., with managing symptoms).

Loneliness Among Persons With Severe Mental Illness.

Although studies show that loneliness increases risk of illness and hastens death, it is poorly understood among persons with severe mental illness (SMI). Using data on 150 people with SMI, we used logistic regression to predict (1) loneliness from sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and (2) psychiatric hospitalization from presence of loneliness. We also examined mediating effects.

A comparison of competitive employment outcomes for the clubhouse and PACT models.

Objective: This study determined whether the clubhouse model of community support and psychiatric rehabilitation can produce competitive employment outcomes that are comparable or superior to those of the Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) model.

Methods: This longitudinal study followed a group of 170 individuals with severe mental illness who were randomly assigned either to the experimental design, a clubhouse program (N=86), or to the control design, a PACT team (N=84). Study participants were tracked for 30 months, and employment outcome data were collected.