Provider perspectives on employment for people with serious mental illness.

Background: Persons with serious mental illnesses (SMI) can lead productive lives, and the majority want to work. Mental health providers can play an important role in helping their clients gain and maintain employment.

Aims: The Provider Survey was developed to shed additional light on providers' views toward employment and recovery, and the utilization of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) supported employment (SE) services for people with SMI.

Poor and depressed, the tip of the iceberg: the unmet needs of enrollees in an indigent health care plan.

Depression is a leading cause of disability [World Health Organization (WHO), 2001] with economic costs exceeding 63 billion dollars per year in the US [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), 1999].

The role of coercion in the treatment of women with co-occurring disorders and histories of abuse.

Debate continues on issues of involuntary treatment for individuals with behavioral healthcare problems. Women with co-occurring disorders and histories of abuse are an especially vulnerable population. This study seeks to increase our knowledge about the experiences of coercion for women in the behavioral healthcare system.

Managed behavioral health care: an instrument to characterize critical elements of public sector programs.

Objective: To develop an instrument to characterize public sector managed behavioral health care arrangements to capture key differences between managed and "unmanaged" care and among managed care arrangements.

Study Design: The instrument was developed by a multi-institutional group of collaborators with participation of an expert panel. Included are six domains predicted to have an impact on access, service utilization, costs, and quality.