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Eric Bradley Elbogen

Eric Bradley Elbogen

Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
eric.elbogen@duke.edu
DUMC 2705, Durham, NC 27710
2400 Pratt Street, 7th Floor, Durham, NC 27705

Selected Publications

Financial Well-Being of U.S. Military Veterans and Health Impact: Results From the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking.

Journal Article Med Care · December 1, 2024 OBJECTIVE: Research has shown that psychosocial well-being in veterans, including financial status, is related to better clinical outcomes after leaving military service. The current study examines variables linking financial well-being to physical health ... Full text Link to item Cite

Measuring the Well-Being of the Whole Person in Clinical Care, Health Research, and Population Health Evaluation: Findings and Recommendations From the XVIII Veterans Health Administration State of the Art Meeting.

Journal Article Medical care · December 2024 ObjectivesIn 2023, the U.S. Veterans Health Administration convened a State of the Art meeting to evaluate the existing evidence and make recommendations for measuring the well-being of the whole person in clinical care, health research, and popul ... Full text Cite

Socioeconomic Correlates of Suicidal Ideation in Military Veterans: Examining the Interaction Between Homelessness and Financial Debt.

Journal Article Community Ment Health J · November 2024 Studies in veterans have yet to examine interconnections between homelessness, financial debt, and suicidal ideation. We analyzed data from a nationally-representative study conducted in 2021 of low-income U.S. veterans (N = 1,004). Analyses revealed veter ... Full text Link to item Cite

Behavioral activation for veterans with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: Basis and methodology for a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · November 2024 BACKGROUND: Nearly 2 million U.S. veterans live with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (AUD/PTSD). Extant AUD/PTSD treatments emphasize symptom reduction, sometimes overlooking psychosocial functioning improvements, and ha ... Full text Link to item Cite

Black Americans With Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Demonstrate Accelerated Epigenetic Pace of Aging Compared to Black Americans Without SCD.

Journal Article J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · November 1, 2024 BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic medical condition characterized by red blood cell sickling, vaso-occlusion, hemolytic anemia, and subsequently, end-organ damage and reduced survival. Because of this significant pathophysiology and early ... Full text Link to item Cite

Anger and suicidality in veterans: Impact of postseparation time and combat.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · October 2024 OBJECTIVE: The study investigated the association over time between the rates of anger/hostility and suicidality in post-9/11 veterans as a function of time following separation from the military and combat exposure. METHOD: Structured clinical interviews ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Systematic Review of Financial Interventions for Adults Experiencing Behavioral Health Conditions.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · June 1, 2024 OBJECTIVE: The authors reviewed the literature on finance-based interventions used to improve clinical and psychosocial outcomes among adults experiencing mental disorders, substance use disorders, or both. METHODS: A systematic review of the peer-reviewed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Food Insecurity and Suicidal Ideation: Results from a National Longitudinal Study of Military Veterans.

Journal Article Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research · April 2024 ObjectiveResearch examining social determinants of suicide risk in veterans suggests a potential link between food insecurity and subsequent suicidal ideation in military veterans. The objective of this study is to investigate, if and how, food in ... Full text Cite

Trajectories of physical function changes for older veterans with serious mental illness in a clinical exercise program

Journal Article Mental Health and Physical Activity · March 1, 2024 Background and aims: Older persons with serious mental illness (SMI) have compromised physical function (endurance, strength, mobility). Multicomponent exercise is effective at improving function in older adults but has been minimally examined in older peo ... Full text Cite

Posttraumatic stress disorder, trauma, and accelerated biological aging among post-9/11 veterans.

Journal Article Transl Psychiatry · January 6, 2024 People who experience trauma and develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at increased risk for poor health. One mechanism that could explain this risk is accelerated biological aging, which is associated with the accumulation of chronic diseases, ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Nonsuicidal self-injury among veterans is associated with psychosocial impairment, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and underutilization of mental health services.

Journal Article Death Stud · 2024 Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a robust predictor of suicide attempts. However, understanding of NSSI and associated treatment utilization among Veterans is limited. Although impairment may be assumed, few studies examine the association between NSSI an ... Full text Link to item Cite

The prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among people impacted by the criminal legal system: An updated meta-analysis and subgroup analyses.

Journal Article Law Hum Behav · October 2023 OBJECTIVE: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant public health concern and has implications for people directly impacted by the criminal legal system during arrest, conviction, incarceration, and community supervision. This meta-analysis estimated ... Full text Link to item Cite

Physical Function Assessment of Older Veterans With Serious Mental Illness.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · September 2023 OBJECTIVE: To characterize the physical function of older veterans with serious mental illness (SMI) across endurance, strength, and mobility domains. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of clinical performance data. SETTING: Gerofit program, a national outpati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Violence and Mental Illness Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety

Book · August 8, 2023 "When newsworthy violence occurs, mental illness is frequently blamed. This overemphasis on mental illness fuels social stigma and cognitive bias that exaggerates the link between violence and mental illness. ... Cite

Development and refinement of the mobile anger reduction intervention for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · May 11, 2023 OBJECTIVE: Problematic anger is commonly reported among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is associated with numerous psychosocial impairments. There is a clear need to develop innovative and effective anger interventions. One of the c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Terms That Refer to Homeless Populations: National Surveys of Several Stakeholder Groups.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · April 1, 2023 OBJECTIVE: This study examined the descriptive terms used in referring to homeless populations. METHODS: Data were from a 2020 national survey of 6,607 middle- and low-income U.S. adults with or without lived experiences of homelessness and a 2021 survey o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prevalence and characteristics associated with firearm ownership among low-income U.S. veterans.

Journal Article Mil Psychol · 2023 This study examined the prevalence of firearm ownership among low-income U.S. military veterans and associated sociodemographic, trauma, and clinical characteristics. Data were analyzed from a nationally representative study of low-income U.S. veterans con ... Full text Link to item Cite

Probable trauma associated sleep disorder in post-9/11 US Veterans.

Journal Article Sleep Adv · 2023 STUDY OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to (1) estimate trauma associated sleep disorder (TASD) prevalence among post-9/11 era veterans and to describe differences in service and comorbid mental health clinical characteristics among individuals wit ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Retention of older veterans with serious mental illness in a clinical exercise program.

Journal Article Front Psychiatry · 2023 Older adults with serious mental illness (SMI) have compromised physical function that could be improved with exercise; however, retention in exercise programs is a challenge. This study was a retrospective analysis of retention for the 150 older veterans ... Full text Link to item Cite

How often does homelessness precede criminal arrest in veterans? Results from the U.S. survey of prison inmates.

Journal Article Am J Orthopsychiatry · 2023 Research has shown links between homelessness and criminal legal involvement in military veterans. The present study aimed to determine the magnitude and directionality of this association by investigating the incidence of, and factors associated with, hom ... Full text Link to item Cite

Correlates of Incarceration History Among Military Veterans.

Journal Article Mil Psychol · November 21, 2022 Veterans with histories of incarceration are at greater risk for poor physical and mental health outcomes, yet prior research in this population has focused on specific subsets of veterans or a narrow range of predictors. We utilized the Bronfenbrenner Soc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neuropsychological deficits associated with medical conditions: Implications for psychological services in criminal legal settings.

Journal Article Psychol Serv · November 2022 Criminal legal system-involved populations are disproportionally impacted by chronic health conditions relative to the general population. These discrepancies are thought to be due to both health disparities and increased likelihood to engage in health-com ... Full text Link to item Cite

When does modifying the protocol go too far? Considerations for implementing evidence-based treatment in practice.

Journal Article Am Psychol · October 2022 The majority of evidence-based psychological treatments (EBTs) are packaged as manuals that provide guidance regarding when and how to deliver specific interventions (e.g., cognitive restructuring, exposure). However, clinical practice regularly necessitat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Criminal legal involvement among recently separated veterans: Findings from the LIMBIC study.

Journal Article Law Hum Behav · October 2022 OBJECTIVE: This study investigated individual-level and neighborhood-level predictors of criminal legal involvement of veterans during the critical transition period from military to civilian life. HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized that substance use, mental hea ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evictions and tenant-landlord relationships during the 2020-2021 eviction moratorium in the US.

Journal Article Am J Community Psychol · September 2022 This study provisionally examined the effects of the US eviction moratorium instituted in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Three waves of data collected May 2020-April 2021 from a nationally representative sample of middle- and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparing psychosocial functioning, suicide risk, and nonsuicidal self-injury between veterans with probable posttraumatic stress disorder and alcohol use disorder.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · July 1, 2022 BACKGROUND: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) are each common among Unites States (U.S.) military veterans and frequently co-occur (i.e., PTSD+AUD). Although comorbid PTSD+AUD is generally associated with worse outcomes re ... Full text Link to item Cite

A National Study of Zoom Fatigue and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Future Remote Work.

Journal Article Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw · July 2022 Overuse of videoconferencing for work may contribute to what has been called "Zoom fatigue": feeling anxious, socially isolated, or emotionally exhausted due to lack of social connection. Given implications for employee well-being, this study investigated ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Resilient and Hierarchical IoT-Based Solution for Stress Monitoring in Everyday Settings

Journal Article IEEE Internet of Things Journal · June 15, 2022 The conventional mental healthcare regime often follows a symptom-focused and episodic approach in a noncontinuous manner, wherein the individual discretely records their biomarker levels or vital signs for a short period prior to a subsequent doctor's vis ... Full text Cite

Associations between mental health and job loss among middle- and low-income veterans and civilians during the COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory study.

Journal Article Stress Health · April 2022 This study examined the relationship between job loss and mental health during the pandemic among a nationally representative sample of middle- and low-income military veterans and civilians. Participants were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk in May-J ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychosocial well-being among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · March 2022 OBJECTIVE: Concurrent posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder (PTSD/SUD) in U.S. military veterans represents an urgent public health issue associated with significant clinical challenges. Although previous research has shown that veterans ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prospective association between receipt of the economic impact payment and mental health outcomes.

Journal Article J Epidemiol Community Health · March 2022 BACKGROUND: The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020 provided 'economic impact payments' (EIPs) of $1200 to US adults with annual personal income of $75 000 or less. This study examined the prospective association between EIP receipt ... Full text Link to item Cite

Financial Status and Well-being in Recently Separated Military Veterans.

Journal Article Mil Med · February 27, 2022 INTRODUCTION: Veterans transitioning from military service to civilian life manage numerous changes simultaneously, in health, employment, social relationships, and finances. Financial problems may impact financial well-being as well as adjustment to civil ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factors associated with repeat sexual offending among U.S. military veterans compared to civilians.

Journal Article Int J Forensic Ment Health · 2022 Although veterans have lower incarceration rates than civilians, large national surveys find higher rates of incarceration for sexual offenses among veterans compared to non-veterans. However, little is known about the factors associated with repeat sexual ... Full text Link to item Cite

Establishing a Research Agenda for Suicide Prevention Among Veterans Experiencing Homelessness.

Journal Article Front Psychol · 2022 Suicide among Veterans experiencing or at risk for homelessness remains a significant public health concern. Conducting research to understand and meet the needs of this at-risk population remains challenging due to myriad factors (e.g., clinical complexit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Receipt, Spending, and Clinical Correlates of the Economic Impact Payment Among Middle- and Low-Income U.S. Adults.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · December 1, 2021 OBJECTIVE: This study examined characteristics and planned expenses of U.S. adults who received the economic impact payment (EIP) during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: Using a nationally representative sample of 6,607 middle- and low-income U.S. adults, t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Warzone experiences and subsequent clinician suicide risk assessment in veterans

Journal Article Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior · December 1, 2021 Objective: To determine in veterans whether severity of combat exposure was predictive of subsequently receiving a suicide risk assessment (SRA), and whether this relationship was meditated by depression symptomatology. Method: We conducted an electronic m ... Full text Cite

A Comparison of Group Anger Management Treatments for Combat Veterans With PTSD: Results From a Quasi-Experimental Trial.

Journal Article J Interpers Violence · October 2021 Difficulty controlling anger is a significant concern among combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), yet few controlled studies have examined the efficacy of anger treatments for this population. This study examined the effects of a group ... Full text Link to item Cite

Development and validation of the Durham Risk Score for estimating suicide attempt risk: A prospective cohort analysis.

Journal Article PLoS Med · August 2021 BACKGROUND: Worldwide, nearly 800,000 individuals die by suicide each year; however, longitudinal prediction of suicide attempts remains a major challenge within the field of psychiatry. The objective of the present research was to develop and evaluate an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Event related potentials indexing the influence of emotion on cognitive processing in veterans with comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

Journal Article Clin Neurophysiol · July 2021 OBJECTIVE: Emotion regulation and cognitive executive control are significantly impaired in both post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). These illnesses are increasingly common in veterans and their co-occurrence may exacerb ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychological distress and alcohol use disorder during the COVID-19 era among middle- and low-income U.S. adults.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · June 1, 2021 PURPOSE: This study examined how exposure to events during the Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) era is linked to symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), COVID-19 era-related stress (CS), alcohol use disorder (AUD), ... Full text Link to item Cite

A network analysis of risk factors for suicide in Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans.

Journal Article J Psychiatr Res · June 2021 Suicidal ideation (SI) is a prevalent issue in the veteran population. A number of factors have been identified as risk factors for suicidal ideation (SI) in veterans, including suicide attempts, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and drug u ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cannabis use disorder, anger, and violence in Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans.

Journal Article J Psychiatr Res · June 2021 An association has been found between cannabis use disorder (CUD) and violence in several clinical populations, including veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and there is evidence that CUD has been increasing among veterans since September ... Full text Link to item Cite

Suicidal ideation and thoughts of self-harm during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of COVID-19-related stress, social isolation, and financial strain.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · May 5, 2021 BACKGROUND: There are significant concerns about mental health problems occurring due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To date, there has been limited empirical investigation about thoughts of suicide and self-harm during the COVID-19 p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Changing demography of homeless adult populations.

Journal Article Perspect Public Health · May 2021 As the demographic characteristics of the US population have changed over the past decade, the characteristics of different homeless populations have changed as well. This study tracked changes in demographic characteristics of homeless adult, veteran, and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Financial Strain, Mental Illness, and Homelessness: Results From a National Longitudinal Study.

Journal Article Med Care · April 1, 2021 BACKGROUND: Research indicates that adults with severe mental illness have lower income and employment than adults without severe mental illness. Further, mental illness has been identified as a risk factor for homelessness. However, little research has in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental Health and Psychosocial Characteristics Associated With COVID-19 Among U.S. Adults.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · April 1, 2021 OBJECTIVE: This study examined psychosocial and mental health characteristics associated with COVID-19 infection. METHODS: An online survey that asked about COVID-19 status, social support, and mental health was used to recruit a national sample of 6,607 l ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Potential Impact of Job Automation on Veterans in Vocational Rehabilitation Programs.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · March 1, 2021 OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to examine the potential impact of job automation on veterans in the largest U.S. vocational rehabilitation program, the Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) program. METHODS: Sixty-two CWT managers were surveyed about common jobs that ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mobile Neurofeedback for Pain Management in Veterans with TBI and PTSD.

Journal Article Pain Med · February 23, 2021 OBJECTIVE: Chronic pain is common in military veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Neurofeedback, or electroencephalograph (EEG) biofeedback, has been associated with lower pain but requires frequent travel ... Full text Link to item Cite

Integrating Mobile Technology and Social Support with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anger in Veterans with PTSD: A Pilot Study

Journal Article Military Behavioral Health · January 1, 2021 We conducted a pilot study incorporating mobile technology and social support into cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anger in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). N = 26 veterans with PTSD were administered standard 12-weekly session CB ... Full text Cite

Screening for moral injury and comparatively evaluating moral injury measures in relation to mental illness symptomatology and diagnosis.

Journal Article Clin Psychol Psychother · January 2021 Moral injury merits further study to clarify its identification, prevalence, assessment and intersection with psychosocial and psychiatric problems. The present study investigated the screening potential of the Brief Moral Injury Screen (BMIS) in a sample ... Full text Link to item Cite

Drinking to Cope with Posttraumatic Stress: A Nationally Representative Study of Men with and without Military Combat Experience.

Journal Article J Dual Diagn · 2021 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and hazardous alcohol use are prevalent among trauma survivors. Despite higher rates of both PTSD and hazardous alcohol use among military combat veterans than civilians, scant research has examined whether military com ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gene Expression Analysis in Three Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Cohorts Implicates Inflammation and Innate Immunity Pathways and Uncovers Shared Genetic Risk With Major Depressive Disorder.

Journal Article Front Neurosci · 2021 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex psychiatric disorder that can develop following exposure to traumatic events. The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium PTSD group (PGC-PTSD) has collected over 20,000 multi-ethnic PTSD cases and controls and has ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Post-traumatic symptom severity mediates the association between combat exposure and suicidal ideation in veterans.

Journal Article Suicide Life Threat Behav · December 2020 OBJECTIVE: Previous studies of military veterans have produced mixed findings regarding whether combat exposure is directly related to suicidal ideation or is indirectly related to suicidal ideation via its influence on other factors. The present study use ... Full text Link to item Cite

Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of PTSD across 10 military and civilian cohorts identifies methylation changes in AHRR.

Journal Article Nat Commun · November 24, 2020 Epigenetic differences may help to distinguish between PTSD cases and trauma-exposed controls. Here, we describe the results of the largest DNA methylation meta-analysis of PTSD to date. Ten cohorts, military and civilian, contribute blood-derived DNA meth ... Full text Link to item Cite

Financial Strain and Suicide Attempts in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults.

Journal Article Am J Epidemiol · November 2, 2020 Although research has identified many suicide risk factors, the relationship between financial strain and suicide has received less attention. Using data representative of the US adult population (n = 34,653) from wave 1 (2001-2002) and wave 2 (2004-2005) ... Full text Link to item Cite

Using Interpretation Bias Modification to Reduce Anger in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Pilot Study.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · October 2020 Difficulty controlling anger is the most commonly reported reintegration concern among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One of the mechanisms associated with problematic anger is a tendency to interpret ambiguous interpersonal situations ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and suicide risk in Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · August 2020 BACKGROUND: United States military veterans experience disproportionate rates of suicide relative to the general population. Evidence suggests religion and spirituality may impact suicide risk, but less is known about which religious/spiritual factors are ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neural correlates of conceptual-level fear generalization in posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Neuropsychopharmacology · July 2020 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may develop when mechanisms for making accurate distinctions about threat relevance have gone awry. Generalization across conceptually related objects has been hypothesized based on clinical observation in PTSD, but the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Anger mediates the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and suicidal ideation in veterans.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · May 15, 2020 BACKGROUND: Theoretical models and cross-sectional empirical studies of suicide indicate that anger is a factor that may help explain the association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide, but to date no longitudinal studies have examine ... Full text Link to item Cite

Self- and Other-Directed Violence as Outcomes of Deployment-Based Military Sexual Assault in Iraq/Afghanistan-era Veteran Men and Women.

Journal Article J Aggress Maltreat Trauma · April 10, 2020 Although military sexual assault (MSA) has been well-established as a risk factor for psychopathology (e.g., PTSD, depression), little research has examined the association between MSA and self- and other-directed violence. Furthermore, there has been a gr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Associations between anger and suicidal ideation and attempts: A prospective study using the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.

Journal Article J Psychiatr Res · March 2020 Suicide is among the leading causes of death in the United States, with rates having risen substantially over the past two decades. Anger is a common symptom of several disorders associated with suicide, and the little research that has been done in the ar ... Full text Link to item Cite

Amygdala Nuclei Volume and Shape in Military Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Journal Article Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging · March 2020 BACKGROUND: The amygdala is a subcortical structure involved in socioemotional and associative fear learning processes relevant for understanding the mechanisms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research in animals indicates that the amygdala is a h ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sexual orientation, attraction and risk for deliberate self-harm: Findings from a nationally representative sample.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · February 10, 2020 To date, there has been limited investigation identifying predictors of deliberate self-harm (DSH) among sexual minority adults. The present study examined the likelihood of DSH by sexual minority status as measured by self-reported sexual identity and sex ... Full text Link to item Cite

Threat-induced anxiety during goal pursuit disrupts amygdala-prefrontal cortex connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Transl Psychiatry · February 10, 2020 To investigate how unpredictable threat during goal pursuit impacts fronto-limbic activity and functional connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we compared military veterans with PTSD (n = 25) vs. trauma-exposed control (n = 25). Participan ... Full text Link to item Cite

Combat exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder, and head injuries differentially relate to alterations in cortical thickness in military Veterans.

Journal Article Neuropsychopharmacology · February 2020 Combat-exposed Veterans are at increased risk for developing psychological distress, mood disorders, and trauma and stressor-related disorders. Trauma and mood disorders have been linked to alterations in brain volume, function, and connectivity. However, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic Safety Behaviors: Characteristics and Associations With Symptom Severity in Two Samples

Journal Article Traumatology · January 1, 2020 People with anxiety-related disorders often engage in safety behaviors: overt or covert actions performed to prevent the occurrence of a feared outcome and/or reduce associated distress. Although clinical experience and conceptual models of posttraumatic s ... Full text Cite

Psychosocial protective factors and suicidal ideation: Results from a national longitudinal study of veterans.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · January 1, 2020 BACKGROUND: This study investigates the empirical association between psychosocial protective factors and subsequent suicidal ideation in veterans. METHODS: We conducted a national longitudinal survey in which participants were randomly drawn from over one ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pain Intensity and Pain Interference in Male and Female Iraq/Afghanistan-era Veterans.

Journal Article Womens Health Issues · June 25, 2019 BACKGROUND: Chronic pain conditions are common among both male and female Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans and can have substantial negative impacts on quality of life and function. Although in general women tend to report higher levels of pain intensity than ... Full text Link to item Cite

A mobile app for patients and those who care about them: A case study for veterans with PTSD + anger

Conference PervasiveHealth: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare · May 20, 2019 Most state-of-the-art treatments for mental health disorders such as post-traumatic stress (PTSD) rely substantially on in-person interactions between therapist and patient. Whereas traditional treatments can suffer high rates of attrition, the integration ... Full text Cite

Relationship between traumatic brain injury history and recent suicidal ideation in Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans.

Journal Article Psychol Serv · May 2019 This study evaluated whether a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) was associated with increased risk for recent suicidal ideation (SI) after accounting for demographics, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and sleep quality. In terms of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain Injury: Sex differences in veterans.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · April 2019 Around half of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research on the differences between male and female veterans with co-occurring PTSD/TBI is sparse. This study evaluat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient-Informed Treatment Development of Behavioral Smoking Cessation for People With Schizophrenia.

Journal Article Behav Ther · March 2019 The objective of this study was to use qualitative methodology to tailor and refine an existing smoking cessation intervention for the population of people who use cigarettes and are diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective, or psychotic disorder. Suc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cigarette smoking rates among veterans: Association with rurality and psychiatric disorders.

Journal Article Addict Behav · March 2019 AIMS: Compared to the general U.S. population, military veterans and those living in rural areas disproportionately smoke cigarettes at higher rates, leading to increased health consequences. In the current study, prevalence and severity of cigarette smoki ... Full text Link to item Cite

Anger, social support, and suicide risk in U.S. military veterans.

Journal Article J Psychiatr Res · February 2019 There have been considerable efforts to understand, predict, and reduce suicide among U.S. military veterans. Studies have shown that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression (MDD), and traumatic brain injury (TBI) increase risk of suicidal b ... Full text Link to item Cite

Why do trauma survivors become depressed? Testing the behavioral model of depression in a nationally representative sample.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · February 2019 Despite accumulated evidence linking trauma exposure to major depressive disorder (MDD), there is limited understanding as to why some trauma survivors subsequently develop MDD. The behavioral model of depression points to a negative reinforcement cycle of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cannabis Use Disorder and Post-Deployment Suicide Attempts in Iraq/Afghanistan-Era Veterans.

Journal Article Arch Suicide Res · 2019 The objective of the present study was to use retrospective data to test the hypothesis that cannabis dependence would be associated with an increased rate of post-deployment suicide attempts. Participants included 319 veterans who had deployed to either I ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive Rehabilitation With Mobile Technology and Social Support for Veterans With TBI and PTSD: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article J Head Trauma Rehabil · 2019 OBJECTIVE: To investigate effects of cognitive rehabilitation with mobile technology and social support on veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PARTICIPANTS: There were 112 dyads, comprised by a veteran and a ... Full text Link to item Cite

The association of resilience on psychiatric, substance use, and physical health outcomes in combat trauma-exposed military service members and veterans.

Journal Article Eur J Psychotraumatol · 2019 Objective: Although Combat exposure is associated with a range of psychiatric outcomes, many veterans do not develop psychopathology. Resilience is a multifaceted construct associated with reduced risk of distress and psychopathology; however, few studies ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Behavioral and Health Outcomes Associated With Deployment and Nondeployment Acquisition of Traumatic Brain Injury in Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans.

Journal Article Arch Phys Med Rehabil · December 2018 OBJECTIVE: To characterize behavioral and health outcomes in veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) acquired in nondeployment and deployment settings. DESIGN: Cross-sectional assessment evaluating TBI acquired during and outside of deployment, mental a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Wall/Object Punching: An Important but Under-Recognized Form of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury.

Journal Article Suicide Life Threat Behav · October 2018 The present research investigated wall/object punching as a form of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among 1,143 veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Wall/object punching was remarkably common in this sample (43%), and its inc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychosocial Risk Factors and Other Than Honorable Military Discharge: Providing Healthcare to Previously Ineligible Veterans.

Journal Article Mil Med · September 1, 2018 INTRODUCTION: In response to a strong focus on suicide prevention for all veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently revised policy to provide emergency mental healthcare for veterans who received Other Than Honorable (OTH) discharges from ... Full text Link to item Cite

Examination of the indirect effects of combat exposure on suicidal behavior in veterans.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · August 1, 2018 BACKGROUND: Researchers have theorized that increased rates of suicide in the military are associated with combat exposure; however, this hypothesis has received inconsistent support in the literature, potentially because combat exposure may be indirectly ... Full text Link to item Cite

Chronic Pain, TBI, and PTSD in Military Veterans: A Link to Suicidal Ideation and Violent Impulses?

Journal Article J Pain · July 2018 UNLABELLED: The polytrauma clinical triad refers to the co-occurrence of chronic pain, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Despite research implicating dyadic relationships between these conditions and adverse outcomes, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Informing Federal Policy on Firearm Restrictions for Veterans with Fiduciaries: Risk Indicators in the Post-Deployment Mental Health Study.

Journal Article Adm Policy Ment Health · July 2018 This article examines the public safety rationale for a federal policy of prohibiting gun sales to veterans with psychiatric disabilities who are assigned a fiduciary to manage their benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The policy was evaluate ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Association Between Alcohol Consumption, Lifetime Alcohol Use Disorder, and Psychiatric Distress Among Male and Female Veterans.

Journal Article J Stud Alcohol Drugs · July 2018 OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine among veterans (a) whether alcohol consumption patterns are associated with probability of psychiatric symptoms and (b) whether an alcohol use disorder (AUD) history explains psychiatric symptoms among nondrinkers. ME ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effects of social support and resilient coping on violent behavior in military veterans.

Journal Article Psychol Serv · May 2018 Violence toward others has been identified as a serious postdeployment adjustment problem in a subset of Iraq- and Afghanistan-era veterans. In the current study, we examined the intricate links between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), commonly cited ... Full text Link to item Cite

Risk factors for concurrent suicidal ideation and violent impulses in military veterans.

Journal Article Psychol Assess · April 2018 Suicide and violence are significant problems in a subset of Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans. This study investigates how posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and resilience in veterans are associated with suicidal ideation and violent impulses while control ... Full text Link to item Cite

Characterizing anger-related affect in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder using ecological momentary assessment.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · March 2018 This study employed secondary analyses of existing ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data to characterize hostile and irritable affect in the day-to-day experience of 52 smokers with, and 65 smokers without, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). EMA mo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Disentangling the link between posttraumatic stress disorder and violent behavior: Findings from a nationally representative sample.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · February 2018 OBJECTIVE: Although research using combat veteran samples has demonstrated an association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and violence toward others, there has been relatively little research examining this relationship among individuals with ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association of posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury with aggressive driving in Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans.

Journal Article Rehabil Psychol · February 2018 PURPOSE: Aggressive driving contributes to the high rates of postdeployment motor vehicle-related injury and death observed among veterans, and veterans cite problems with anger, aggressive driving, and road rage as being among their most pressing driving- ... Full text Link to item Cite

Brain Structural Covariance Network Topology in Remitted Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Journal Article Front Psychiatry · 2018 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent, chronic disorder with high psychiatric morbidity; however, a substantial portion of affected individuals experience remission after onset. Alterations in brain network topology derived from cortical thic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neuropsychological correlates of self-reported impulsivity and informant-reported maladaptive behaviour among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury history.

Journal Article Brain Inj · 2018 OBJECTIVE: Frontal lobe deficits resulting from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and/or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been linked to impulsive behaviour. We sought to examine whether neuropsychological performance predicted self-reported impulsivit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does Deployment-Related Military Sexual Assault Interact with Combat Exposure to Predict Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Female Veterans?

Journal Article Traumatology (Tallahass Fla) · 2018 The objective of the present research was to expand upon previous findings indicating that military sexual trauma interacts with combat exposure to predict PTSD among female Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans. Three hundred and thirty female veterans completed ... Link to item Cite

Homelessness and money management in military veterans

Chapter · January 1, 2018 Research has identified many factors associated with homelessness in Veterans; however, relatively less attention has been given to how poor financial decision-making may contribute to homelessness in Veterans. This chapter first outlines money management ... Full text Cite

Exploring resilience models in a sample of combat-exposed military service members and veterans: a comparison and commentary.

Journal Article Eur J Psychotraumatol · 2018 Background: The term resilience is applied in numerous ways in the mental health field, leading to different perspectives of what constitutes a resilient response and disparate findings regarding its prevalence following trauma. Objective: illustrate the i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Promoting mental health recovery and improving clinical assessment using video technology.

Journal Article Psychiatr Rehabil J · December 2017 TOPIC: Although individuals with medical problems (e.g., diabetes, hypertension) can monitor their symptoms using objective measures (e.g., blood glucose, blood pressure), objective measures are not typically used by individuals with psychotic disorders to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sleep quality in returning veterans: The influence of mild traumatic brain injury.

Journal Article Rehabil Psychol · November 2017 OBJECTIVE: Sleep disturbance is a key behavioral health concern among Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans and is a frequent complaint among veterans with a history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Currently, it is unclear whether sleep disturbance is a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Self-Reported Pain in Male and Female Iraq/Afghanistan-Era Veterans: Associations with Psychiatric Symptoms and Functioning.

Journal Article Pain Med · September 1, 2017 OBJECTIVE: To examine pain symptoms and co-occurring psychiatric and functional indices in male and female Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans. DESIGN: Self-reported data collection and interviews of Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans who participated in a multisite ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving Mental Health Treatment Utilization in Military Veterans: Examining the Effects of Perceived Need for Care and Social Support.

Journal Article Mil Psychol · September 2017 OBJECTIVE: Many veterans with mental health problems do not adequately utilize needed care. Research has focused on identifying barriers to mental health care in veterans. METHOD: The current study adds to existing literature by examining whether perceived ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cannabis use disorder and suicide attempts in Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans.

Journal Article J Psychiatr Res · June 2017 The objective of the present research was to examine the association between lifetime cannabis use disorder (CUD), current suicidal ideation, and lifetime history of suicide attempts in a large and diverse sample of Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans (N = 3233) ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Investigation of Treatment Engagement Among Returning Veterans With Problematic Anger.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · February 2017 Anger is a commonly reported problem among returning veterans, yet little attention has been devoted to studying treatment engagement among veterans who report anger problems but do not have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study compares Iraq-Af ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nonsuicidal self-injury and interpersonal violence in U.S. veterans seeking help for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · January 2017 Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been defined as deliberately damaging one's body tissue without conscious suicidal intent. NSSI is a robust predictor of suicidal ideation and attempts in adults. While NSSI has been associated with other-directed violenc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Traumatic Brain Injury in Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans: New Results From a National Random Sample Study.

Journal Article J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci · 2017 This study randomly sampled post-9/11 military veterans and reports on causes, predictors, and frequency of traumatic brain injury (TBI) (N=1,388). A total of 17.3% met criteria for TBI during military service, with about one-half reporting multiple head i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sociocultural discourse in science: Flawed assumptions and bias in the CLASH model.

Journal Article Behav Brain Sci · January 2017 In this commentary, we contest Van Lange and colleagues' central claim that "countries closer to the equator are generally more violent." We point to the lack of credible empirical evidence for this assertion and suggest that the CLASH model uses the langu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Risk of Recidivism Among Justice-Involved Veterans: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Journal Article Criminal Justice Policy Review · December 1, 2016 Empirical research on recidivism risk among justice-involved veterans (JIVs) is limited. Using the risk-need-responsivity model, we conducted a systematic review of research on risk factors for recidivism among JIVs to identify the gaps in this literature ... Full text Cite

A Randomized Clinical Trial of a Money Management Intervention for Veterans With Psychiatric Disabilities.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · October 1, 2016 OBJECTIVE: The study evaluated an intervention to help veterans with psychiatric disabilities, who face a unique set of challenges concerning money management. METHODS: A randomized clinical trial was conducted of a brief (one to three hours) psychoeducati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Beyond mental illness: Targeting stronger and more direct pathways to violence

Journal Article Clinical Psychological Science · September 1, 2016 The association between violence and serious mental illness (SMI)—schizophrenia, other psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder—was examined and guided by the I3 model to frame analysis of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alco ... Full text Cite

Sexual revictimization among Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · June 30, 2016 Research in both civilian and military populations has demonstrated that females who experience childhood sexual abuse (CSA) are more likely to experience sexual assault in adulthood than females who did not experience CSA. Among veteran samples, however, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Hostile Cognitions, and Aggression in Iraq/Afghanistan Era Veterans.

Journal Article Psychiatry · 2016 OBJECTIVE: Most veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are not violent, yet research has demonstrated that there is a substantial minority who are at increased risk. This study tested hypotheses regarding hyperarousal symptoms and hostile cogni ... Full text Link to item Cite

An exploratory pilot investigation of neurosteroids and self-reported pain in female Iraq/Afghanistan-era Veterans.

Journal Article J Rehabil Res Dev · 2016 Female Veterans are the most rapidly growing segment of new users of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and a significant proportion of female Veterans receiving treatment from VHA primary care providers report persistent pain symptoms. Currently, a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Functional correlates of military sexual assault in male veterans.

Journal Article Psychol Serv · November 2015 Despite research findings that similar numbers of male and female veterans are affected by military sexual trauma (MST), there has been considerably less research on the effects of MST specific to male veterans. The aim of the present study was to provide ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of genetic variation in the nicotinic receptor genes on risk for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · September 30, 2015 The present study examined the association between genetic variation in the nicotinic receptor gene family (CHRNA2, CHRNA3, CHRNA4, CHRNA5, CHRNA6, CHRNA7, CHRNA9, CHRNA10, CHRNB2, CHRNB3, CHRNB4) and the occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ... Full text Link to item Cite

Drug use and childhood-, military- and post-military trauma exposure among women and men veterans.

Journal Article Drug Alcohol Depend · July 1, 2015 BACKGROUND: The current study was undertaken to examine whether posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and depressive symptoms mediated the association between trauma exposure (combat-related trauma and non-combat traumas occurring before, during, and after ... Full text Link to item Cite

The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Veterans: a meta-analysis.

Journal Article J Anxiety Disord · April 2015 Literature on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence among Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans report estimates ranging from 1.4% to 60%. A more precise estimate is necessary for projecting healthcare needs and informi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Surveying treatment preferences in U.S. Iraq-Afghanistan Veterans with PTSD symptoms: a step toward veteran-centered care.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · April 2015 This study examined health care barriers and preferences among a self-selected sample of returning U.S. veterans drawn from a representative, randomly selected frame surveyed about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology and mental health utili ... Full text Link to item Cite

Longitudinal Predictors of Criminal Arrest After Traumatic Brain Injury: Results From the Traumatic Brain Injury Model System National Database.

Journal Article J Head Trauma Rehabil · 2015 OBJECTIVE: To examine how pre-traumatic brain injury (TBI) variables and TBI-related characteristics predict post-TBI criminal arrest, using longitudinal data from the Traumatic Brain Injury Model System National Database. SETTINGS: Medical hospitals; reha ... Full text Link to item Cite

The factor structure of psychiatric comorbidity among Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans and its relationship to violence, incarceration, suicide attempts, and suicidality.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · December 15, 2014 The present research examined how incarceration, suicide attempts, suicidality, and difficulty controlling violence relate to the underlying factor structure of psychiatric comorbidity among a large sample of Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans (N=1897). Diagnos ... Full text Link to item Cite

Training directors' self-assessment of forensic education within residency training.

Journal Article Acad Psychiatry · December 2014 OBJECTIVE: The authors provide information pertaining to forensic education within psychiatry residency based upon training directors' self-assessment of their programs, utilizing the 2007 ACGME program requirements for forensic psychiatry as an assessment ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pastoral care use among post-9/11 veterans who screen positive for mental health problems.

Journal Article Psychol Serv · August 2014 As a result of their military experience, veterans with mental health problems may have unique motivations for seeking help from clergy. Patterns and correlates of seeking pastoral care were examined using a nationwide representative survey that was conduc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Screening for violence risk in military veterans: predictive validity of a brief clinical tool.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · July 2014 OBJECTIVE: Violence toward others is a serious problem among a subset of military veterans. The authors evaluated the predictive validity of a brief decision support tool to screen veterans for problems with violence and identify potential candidates for a ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of social support on psychological distress for U.S. Afghanistan/Iraq era veterans with PTSD and other psychiatric diagnoses.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · June 30, 2014 This study aimed to examine the degree to which posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects the relationship between social support and psychological distress for U.S. Afghanistan/Iraq era veterans with and without co-occurring psychiatric disorders. Vete ... Full text Link to item Cite

Violence, suicide, and all-cause mortality.

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Protective mechanisms and prevention of violence and aggression in veterans.

Journal Article Psychol Serv · May 2014 Although a subset of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans show aggression toward others after they return home from military service, little is known about protective mechanisms that could be bolstered to prevent violence. A national longitudinal survey was condu ... Full text Link to item Cite

PTSD symptoms and family versus stranger violence in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

Journal Article Law Hum Behav · February 2014 As a diagnosis, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with violence committed by veterans in many studies; however, a potential link to specific PTSD symptoms has received relatively less attention. This paper examines the relationship b ... Full text Link to item Cite

Alcohol misuse and psychological resilience among U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans.

Journal Article Addict Behav · February 2014 OBJECTIVE: The present study sought to investigate the longitudinal effects of psychological resilience against alcohol misuse adjusting for socio-demographic factors, trauma-related variables, and self-reported history of alcohol abuse. METHODOLOGY: Data ... Full text Link to item Cite

Violent behaviour and post-traumatic stress disorder in US Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

Journal Article Br J Psychiatry · 2014 BACKGROUND: Violence towards others in the community has been identified as a significant problem for a subset of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. AIMS: To investigate the extent to which post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other risk factors predict f ... Full text Link to item Cite

Personality assessment inventory internalizing and externalizing structure in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: associations with aggression.

Journal Article Aggress Behav · 2014 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with aggressive behavior in veterans, and difficulty controlling aggressive urges has been identified as a primary postdeployment readjustment concern. Yet only a fraction of veterans with PTSD commit viol ... Full text Link to item Cite

Why Financial Literacy Matters After Returning Home from War: Reducing Veteran Homelessness by Improving Money Management

Journal Article Community Investments · 2014 Although mental illness and substance abuse are often cited as root causes of veteran homelessness, a sometimes overlooked factor is difficulty with financial literacy. Drawing on his experience running money management groups at the Durham VA and serving ... Cite

Beyond sensors: Reading patients through caregivers and context

Conference UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing · January 1, 2014 Mobile technology for remotely sensing key health indicators about patients receiving long-term or outpatient care continues to become more affordable and more easily embedded, but there remain certain patient variables, especially mental health and adapti ... Full text Cite

Homelessness and money mismanagement in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · December 2013 OBJECTIVES: We examined the empirical link between money mismanagement and subsequent homelessness among veterans. METHODS: We used a random sample of Iraq and Afghanistan War era veterans from the National Post-Deployment Adjustment Survey in 2009-2011. R ... Full text Link to item Cite

Self-report and longitudinal predictors of violence in Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · October 2013 This study, using a longitudinal design, attempted to identify whether self-reported problems with violence were empirically associated with future violent behavior among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and whether and how collateral informant interviews ... Full text Link to item Cite

Personality disorders at the interface of psychiatry and the law: legal use and clinical classification.

Journal Article Dialogues Clin Neurosci · June 2013 Personality disorders have a complex relationship with the law that in many ways reflects their complexity within the clinical and research communities. This paper addresses expert testimony about personality disorders, outlines how personality disorders a ... Full text Link to item Cite

A 3-year longitudinal study examining the effect of resilience on suicidality in veterans.

Journal Article Ann Clin Psychiatry · February 2013 BACKGROUND: This study prospectively evaluated the correlation and role of resilience and resilience factors in predicting suicidal ideation and attempts in veterans. METHODS: In this 3-year longitudinal study, 178 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans were ev ... Link to item Cite

Are Iraq and Afghanistan veterans using mental health services? New data from a national random-sample survey.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · February 1, 2013 OBJECTIVE: This study analyzed data from a national survey of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to improve understanding of mental health services use and perceived barriers. METHODS: The National Post-Deployment Adjustment Survey randomly sampled post-9/11 ve ... Full text Link to item Cite

A recovery-oriented money management intervention.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · January 2013 Full text Link to item Cite

Criminal justice involvement, trauma, and negative affect in Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · December 2012 OBJECTIVE: Although criminal behavior in veterans has been cited as a growing problem, little is known about why some veterans are at increased risk for arrest. Theories of criminal behavior postulate that people who have been exposed to stressful environm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Consumer perspectives on genetic testing for psychiatric disorders: the attitudes of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and their families.

Journal Article Genet Test Mol Biomarkers · September 2012 The perspectives of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on genetic research have not yet been investigated in the genetics research literature. To provide a basis for research on attitudes toward genetic research in PTSD, we surveyed the U.S ... Full text Link to item Cite

Protective factors and risk modification of violence in Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans.

Journal Article J Clin Psychiatry · June 2012 OBJECTIVE: After returning home, a subset of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans report engaging in aggression toward others. This study is the first to identify variables empirically related to decreased risk of community violence among veterans. METHOD: Th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Financial well-being and postdeployment adjustment among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.

Journal Article Mil Med · June 2012 Research has yet to examine the relationship between financial well-being and community reintegration of veterans. To address this, we analyzed data from n = 1,388 Iraq and Afghanistan War Era Veterans who completed a national survey on postdeployment adju ... Full text Link to item Cite

An examination of general aggression and intimate partner violence in women with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Violence Vict · 2012 Research has documented significant relationships between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), aggression, and intimate partner violence (IPV). Most of these studies have focused on men and measured violence by self-report. This study examined (a) the ass ... Full text Link to item Cite

Building a bridge of trust: collaborative assessment with a person with serious mental illness.

Journal Article J Pers Assess · 2012 Collaborative assessment utilizes psychological testing to help people make positive changes in their lives. Limited research has evaluated the utility of collaborative assessment for persons with serious mental illness. This case example uses the Personal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical decision-making about inpatient violence risk at admission to a public-sector acute psychiatric hospital.

Journal Article J Am Acad Psychiatry Law · 2012 This is an examination of the extent to which patients who are violent in the hospital can be distinguished from nonviolent patients, based on information that is readily available at the time of admission to a state acute psychiatric hospital. The charts ... Link to item Cite

Writing for the US federal courts

Chapter · January 1, 2011 This chapter outlines standards and statutes governing psychiatric reports for the federal courts. Federal courts adjudicate disputes arising under the United States constitution, federal statutes and regulations, and the federal common law at three differ ... Full text Cite

Money management, mental health, and psychiatric disability: a recovery-oriented model for improving financial skills.

Journal Article Psychiatr Rehabil J · 2011 TOPIC: Although money management skills are essential for independent functioning in the community, when viewed from the framework of psychosocial rehabilitation, there have been few systematic models for teaching money management skills to consumers with ... Full text Link to item Cite

A conceptually based scale to measure consumers' treatment motivation

Journal Article Research on Social Work Practice · January 1, 2011 Objectives: The objective of this work was to assess the reliability and validity of the Treatment Motivation Questionnaire- Revised (TMQ-R) in people with serious mental illness (SMI). Method: A large sample of consumers of mental health services (n = 469 ... Full text Cite

Correlates of anger and hostility in Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · September 2010 OBJECTIVE: As troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan to civilian life, clinicians are starting to grapple with how best to detect those at risk of postdeployment adjustment problems. Data reveal the presence of mental health problems in these soldiers, in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving risk assessment of violence among military veterans: an evidence-based approach for clinical decision-making.

Journal Article Clin Psychol Rev · August 2010 Increased media attention to post-deployment violence highlights the need to develop effective models to guide risk assessment among military Veterans. Ideally, a method would help identify which Veterans are most at risk for violence so that it can be det ... Full text Link to item Cite

Medication preferences and adherence among individuals with severe mental illness and psychiatric advance directives.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · April 2010 OBJECTIVE: Psychiatric advance directives allow patients with severe mental illness to document their preferences for particular medications. This study investigated the role of psychiatric advance directives in treatment choice and medication adherence. M ... Full text Link to item Cite

Autonomy and the use of directive intervention in the treatment of individuals with serious mental illnesses: A survey of social work practitioners

Journal Article Social Work in Mental Health · July 1, 2009 Social workers in mental health settings struggle to support the principle of autonomy while weighing the need to directively intervene when there is a risk of harm or when clients are nonadherent to treatment. However, our understanding of this tension is ... Full text Cite

The intricate link between violence and mental disorder: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.

Journal Article Arch Gen Psychiatry · February 2009 CONTEXT: The relationship between mental illness and violence has a significant effect on mental health policy, clinical practice, and public opinion about the dangerousness of people with psychiatric disorders. OBJECTIVE: To use a longitudinal data set re ... Full text Link to item Cite

The expert consensus guideline series: adherence problems in patients with serious and persistent mental illness.

Journal Article J Clin Psychiatry · 2009 OBJECTIVES: Poor adherence to medication treatment can have devastating consequences for patients with mental illness. The goal of this project was to develop recommendations for addressing adherence problems to improve patient outcomes. METHODS: The edito ... Link to item Cite

Reducing barriers to completing psychiatric advance directives.

Journal Article Adm Policy Ment Health · November 2008 OBJECTIVE: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) allow individuals to plan for future mental health treatment. However, little is known about barriers to PAD completion. This paper examines an intervention's effect in reducing barriers to PAD completion. M ... Full text Link to item Cite

Access to medical care among persons with psychotic and major affective disorders.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · August 2008 OBJECTIVE: People with serious mental illness have higher mortality rates than the general population, and this difference is not explained by such causes as suicide or accidents. This study therefore examined access and barriers to medical care among pers ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparison of antipsychotic medication effects on reducing violence in people with schizophrenia.

Journal Article Br J Psychiatry · July 2008 BACKGROUND: Violence is an uncommon but significant problem associated with schizophrenia. AIMS: To compare antipsychotic medications in reducing violence among patients with schizophrenia over 6 months, identify prospective predictors of violence and exam ... Full text Link to item Cite

Alternative pathways to violence in persons with schizophrenia: the role of childhood antisocial behavior problems.

Journal Article Law Hum Behav · June 2008 Violence in schizophrenia patients may result from many factors besides the symptoms of schizophrenia. This study examined the relationship between childhood antisocial behavior and adult violence using data from the NIMH CATIE study. The prevalence of vio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social workers' familiarity with psychiatric advance directives: Implications for education, practice, and research

Journal Article Families in Society · April 1, 2008 Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal documents that allow competent individuals to express wishes for psychiatric care during a future crisis when they may no longer be able to do so. PADs are intended to enhance client autonomy at a time when c ... Full text Cite

Caseworker assessments of risk for recurrent maltreatment: association with case-specific risk factors and re-reports.

Journal Article Child Abuse Negl · March 2008 OBJECTIVE: This article focuses on caseworkers' assessments of risk of maltreatment recurrence among families in contact with social services. Specifically, the article has two primary goals: (1) to examine the association between caseworkers' risk assessm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessing risk of violent behavior among veterans with severe mental illness.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · February 2008 Although empirical research has examined factors associated with increased violence risk among individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) and among veterans without SMI, less attention has been devoted to identifying violence risk factors among veterans ... Full text Link to item Cite

Front line workers' attitudes towards psychiatric advance directives.

Journal Article Community Ment Health J · February 2008 Studies have begun to explore provider attitudes' toward psychiatric advance directives (PADs) and how those attitudes are related to provider characteristics. The study gathered attitudinal data from a sample of 193 social workers serving mentally ill adu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Caregivers as money managers for adults with severe mental illness: how treatment providers can help.

Journal Article Acad Psychiatry · 2008 OBJECTIVE: To review the prevalence, benefits, and problems associated with families who, either informally or formally as representative payees, manage money for adults with severe mental illness. METHODS: Based on empirical research and clinical cases, s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychiatric advance directives and reduction of coercive crisis interventions.

Journal Article J Ment Health · January 1, 2008 BACKGROUND: Psychiatric advance directives are intended to enable self-determined treatment for patients who lose decisional capacity, and thus reduce the need for coercive interventions such as police transport, involuntary commitment, seclusion and restr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Characteristics of representative payeeship involving families of beneficiaries with psychiatric disabilities.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · November 2007 OBJECTIVE: Although the Social Security Administration frequently assigns family members to serve as representative payees for relatives with psychiatric disabilities, few studies have examined characteristics associated with these payee arrangements or th ... Full text Link to item Cite

EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING PSYCHIATRIC ADVANCE DIRECTIVES TO PROMOTE SELF-DETERMINATION OF TREATMENT AMONG PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS.

Journal Article Psychol Public Policy Law · November 2007 Statutes on psychiatric advance directives (PADs) allow competent individuals to document instructions for future mental health treatment in the event of an incapacitating crisis. PADs are aimed at promoting a stronger sense of patient self-determination, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of patients' reasons for refusing treatment on implementing psychiatric advance directives.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · October 2007 OBJECTIVE: Clinicians have raised concerns that psychiatric advance directives may be used to refuse all treatment. However, people writing psychiatric advance directives can explicitly state their reasoning underlying treatment decisions. This study exami ... Full text Link to item Cite

Healthcare barriers among severely mentally ill homeless adults: evidence from the five-site health and risk study.

Journal Article Adm Policy Ment Health · July 2007 UNLABELLED: Few studies have examined barriers to physical and mental healthcare among homeless mentally adults. METHODS: This study examined physical and mental healthcare barriers reported by 154 recently homeless mentally ill persons. RESULTS: Practical ... Full text Link to item Cite

Competence to complete psychiatric advance directives: effects of facilitated decision making.

Journal Article Law Hum Behav · June 2007 Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) statutes presume competence to complete these documents, but the range and dimensions of decisional competence among people who actually complete PADs is unknown. This study examines clinical and neuropsychological cor ... Full text Link to item Cite

Overriding psychiatric advance directives: factors associated with psychiatrists' decisions to preempt patients' advance refusal of hospitalization and medication.

Journal Article Law Hum Behav · February 2007 Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are intended to support patients' treatment decisions during a crisis. However, PAD statutes give clinicians broad discretion over whether to carry out patients' advance instructions. This study uses data from a survey ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of perceived need for treatment on risk of arrest and violence among people with severe mental illness

Journal Article Criminal Justice and Behavior · February 1, 2007 One clinical strategy for managing risk of arrest and violence among people with severe mental illness (SMI) involves targeting potentially treatable factors related to these risks. The current study examines the association between individuals' perceived ... Full text Cite

Understanding the personal and clinical utility of psychiatric advance directives: a qualitative perspective.

Journal Article Psychiatry · 2007 Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal tools that allow competent individuals to declare preferences for future mental health treatment when they may not be capable of doing so as a result of a psychiatric crisis. PADs allow individuals to maintai ... Full text Link to item Cite

Decisional competence to complete psychiatric advance directives

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Facilitated psychiatric advance directives: a randomized trial of an intervention to foster advance treatment planning among persons with severe mental illness.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · November 2006 OBJECTIVE: Studies show a high potential demand for psychiatric advance directives but low completion rates. The authors conducted a randomized study of a structured, manualized intervention to facilitate completion of psychiatric advance directives. METHO ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment engagement and violence risk in mental disorders.

Journal Article Br J Psychiatry · October 2006 BACKGROUND: Research has uncovered many characteristics related to violence committed by people with mental illness. However, relatively few studies have focused on understanding the connection between violence and dynamic, malleable variables such as a pa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinicians' attitudes regarding barriers to the implementation of psychiatric advance directives.

Journal Article Adm Policy Ment Health · July 2006 OBJECTIVE: Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) may include documenting advance instructions (AIs) and/or designating health care agents (HCAs). Laws authorizing PADs have proliferated in the past decade, but there has been little research regarding perce ... Full text Link to item Cite

A national study of violent behavior in persons with schizophrenia.

Journal Article Arch Gen Psychiatry · May 2006 CONTEXT: Violent behavior is uncommon, yet problematic, among schizophrenia patients. The complex effects of clinical, interpersonal, and social-environmental risk factors for violence in this population are poorly understood. OBJECTIVE: To examine the pre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical decision making and views about psychiatric advance directives.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · March 2006 OBJECTIVES: Psychiatric advance directives allow competent persons to document advance instructions or designate a health care agent to communicate their preferences for future mental health treatment in the event of an incapacitating crisis. Although laws ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient preferences for psychiatric advance directives

Journal Article International Journal of Forensic Mental Health · January 1, 2006 Limited research has examined patients’ preferences for psychiatric advance directives (PADs). This study examines the preferences and interest in PADs among patients with severe mental illness. Participants in a randomized controlled trial of PAD facilita ... Full text Cite

Psychiatric advance directives among public mental health consumers in five U.S. cities: prevalence, demand, and correlates.

Journal Article J Am Acad Psychiatry Law · 2006 Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal instruments that allow competent persons to document their preferences regarding future mental health treatment and to designate a surrogate decisionmaker in the event they lose capacity to make reliable trea ... Link to item Cite

Superseding psychiatric advance directives: ethical and legal considerations.

Journal Article J Am Acad Psychiatry Law · 2006 Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) were introduced in the 1980s as legal instruments for psychiatric patients to retain some choice over their own mental health treatment during periods of decisional incapacity. However, PADs are nested in larger struct ... Link to item Cite

The relationship between mandated community treatment and perceived barriers to care in persons with severe mental illness.

Journal Article Int J Law Psychiatry · 2006 OBJECTIVE: In recent decades debate has intensified over both the ethics and effectiveness of mandated mental health treatment for persons residing in the community. Perceived barriers to care among persons subjected to mandated community treatment, and th ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effects of early sexual abuse on adult risky sexual behaviors among persons with severe mental illness.

Journal Article Child Abuse Negl · November 2005 OBJECTIVE: There were two aims: first, to examine the relationship between prior sexual abuse and three types of adult risky sexual behaviors [(1) ever traded sex for drugs or money, (2) had unprotected sex in the past 6 months, and (3) frequency of unprot ... Full text Link to item Cite

Medication nonadherence and substance abuse in psychotic disorders: impact of depressive symptoms and social stability.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · October 2005 Featured Publication Although studies have consistently shown a strong relationship between medication nonadherence and substance abuse in psychotic disorders, less is understood about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. The purpose of this study was to examine whethe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Family representative payeeship and violence risk in severe mental illness.

Journal Article Law Hum Behav · October 2005 Featured Publication Although representative payeeship is prevalent among people with mental illness and shows promise to positively influence clinically relevant outcomes, research also suggests this legal mechanism could be implemented in ways that are problematic. The curre ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effects of race and criminal justice involvement on access to atypical antipsychotic medications among persons with schizophrenia.

Journal Article Ment Health Serv Res · June 2005 This study examined the impact of race and arrest history on the likelihood of being prescribed, and maintaining an atypical antipsychotic prescription for 90 or more days among patients with schizophrenia in the community. Participants were 224 adults wit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical Decision Making About Psychopathy and Violence Risk Assessment in Public Sector Mental Health Settings

Journal Article Psychological Services · June 1, 2005 Although there has been extensive research on psychopathy, it is unknown how, or whether, clinicians in public sector mental health settings consider the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) for assessing violence risk. Mental health clinicians (N = 135) from 4 fac ... Full text Cite

Perceived fairness and effectiveness of leveraged community treatment among public mental health consumers in five U.S. cities

Journal Article International Journal of Forensic Mental Health · January 1, 2005 Policies to leverage adherence with community-based mental health treatment have become widespread; however, little research exists on the attitudes of persons with psychiatric disorders regarding such leverage. This study examines the appraisals of 1, 011 ... Full text Cite

Psychiatrists’ views and attitudes about psychiatric advance directives

Journal Article International Journal of Forensic Mental Health · January 1, 2005 Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) document a patient’s advance instructions (AIs) for treatment and/or designation of a potential proxy decision maker. Approximately 50% of a total of N=167 U.S. psychiatrists who completed a mail survey of their attitu ... Full text Cite

Consumer views of representative payee use of disability funds to leverage treatment adherence.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · January 2005 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: Although representative payee arrangements are common among people with psychiatric disabilities, only a small body of research has investigated how consumers feel about representative payees' use of disability funds to attempt to improve treatm ... Full text Link to item Cite

A comparison of stigmatizing attitudes toward persons with schizophrenia in four stakeholder groups: perceived likelihood of violence and desire for social distance.

Journal Article Psychiatry · 2005 Featured Publication This study compared four stakeholder groups regarding the presence of stigmatizing attitudes toward a hypothetical person diagnosed with schizophrenia. Participants included consumers with schizophrenia (n = 104), family members of those with schizophrenia ... Full text Link to item Cite

Reducing violence risk in persons with schizophrenia: olanzapine versus risperidone.

Journal Article J Clin Psychiatry · December 2004 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: This study prospectively examined the effectiveness of treatment with olanzapine versus risperidone in reducing violent behavior among patients with schizophrenia under "usual care" conditions in the community. METHOD: Participants were 124 adul ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychiatric advance directives: Practical, legal, and ethical issues

Journal Article Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice · December 1, 2004 Psychiatric Advance Directives are relatively new legal tools that allow competent persons to consent or refuse mental health treatment and designate a proxy decision maker in advance of a mental health crisis, during which they may lose capacity to make h ... Full text Cite

Consumers' perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of mandated community treatment and related pressures.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · July 2004 OBJECTIVE: Little research has been conducted on the attitudes of persons with psychiatric disorders toward the potentially adverse or beneficial effects of involuntary outpatient commitment and other forms of mandated community treatment. This study exami ... Full text Link to item Cite

Use of psychotropic medications by youths in therapeutic foster care and group homes.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · June 2004 This article examines the use of psychotropic medications among youths in residential community-based placements. Data are from a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health of therapeutic foster care (June 1999 through May 2001) and group home ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effectiveness of atypical antipsychotic medications in reducing violent behavior among persons with schizophrenia in community-based treatment.

Journal Article Schizophr Bull · 2004 Featured Publication This study prospectively compared the effectiveness of atypical antipsychotic medications to that of conventional neuroleptics in reducing violent behavior among patients with schizophrenia under "usual care" conditions in the community. Participants (n = ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effects of legal mechanisms on perceived coercion and treatment adherence among persons with severe mental illness.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · October 2003 This study takes preliminary steps to examine the effects of 2 legal mechanisms-outpatient commitment (OPC) and representative payeeship (rep payee)-on perceived coercion and treatment adherence in persons with severe mental illness (SMI). Data were collec ... Full text Link to item Cite

Characteristics of third-party money management for persons with psychiatric disabilities.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · August 2003 OBJECTIVE: The study examined different types of third-party money management arrangements for persons with psychiatric disabilities and consumers' perceptions of their finances in the context of these arrangements. METHODS: Clinical and demographic data w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Involuntary outpatient commitment and homelessness in persons with severe mental illness.

Journal Article Ment Health Serv Res · March 2003 This study took preliminary steps to explore the relationship between involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) and the risk of homelessness among individuals with severe mental disorders. Involuntarily hospitalized patients were randomly assigned to be rele ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychiatric disability, the use of financial leverage, and perceived coercion in mental health services

Journal Article International Journal of Forensic Mental Health · January 1, 2003 Although the use of representative payees has proliferated in the past decade, little is known about whether clinicians or family members of people with mental illness use their control of clients’ money to leverage treatment adherence or whether persons w ... Full text Cite

Psychiatric advance directives: A survey of persons with schizophrenia, family members, and treatment providers

Journal Article International Journal of Forensic Mental Health · January 1, 2003 Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) allow competent persons to request or refuse specific types of treatment and designate a proxy decisionmaker in advance of a mental health crisis when they may lose capacity to make reliable healthcare decisions. A sur ... Full text Cite

Attempted suicide by cop: a case study of traumatic brain injury and the insanity defense.

Journal Article J Forensic Sci · January 2003 Over the years, there have been a number of well-publicized incidents involving persons who seemingly maneuver police officers into shooting them. Such cases, while relatively rare compared with most forms of violence, nevertheless pose difficult challenge ... Link to item Cite

Documentation of violence risk information in psychiatric hospital patient charts: an empirical examination.

Journal Article J Am Acad Psychiatry Law · 2003 Studies have identified risk factors that show a strong association with violent behavior in psychiatric populations. Yet, little research has been conducted on the documentation of violence risk information in actual clinical practice, despite the relevan ... Link to item Cite

Effects of involuntary outpatient commitment on subjective quality of life in persons with severe mental illness.

Journal Article Behav Sci Law · 2003 Recent evidence suggests that involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC), when appropriately applied, can improve adherence with psychiatric treatment, decrease hospital recidivism and arrests, and lower the risk of violent behavior in persons with severe men ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perceived relevance of factors for violence risk assessment: A survey of clinicians

Journal Article International Journal of Forensic Mental Health · January 1, 2002 Although there has been extensive research on violence risk assessment in the past decade, it has not been examined whether clinicians in actual practice consider violence risk factors that researchers suggest should be utilized. The purpose of this study ... Full text Cite

The process of violence risk assessment: A review of descriptive research

Journal Article Aggression and Violent Behavior · January 1, 2002 In the past decade, research on violence risk assessment has aimed to establish empirically validated risk factors. Although a number of papers have reviewed what clinicians should use when assessing violence risk (prescriptive research), less attention ha ... Full text Cite

Hierarchical classification and the integration of self-structure in late adolescence.

Journal Article J Adolesc · October 2001 A number of empirical studies have demonstrated that one's self-concept is multi-dimensional in nature, varies according to social context, and shows increased differentiation throughout adolescence. There has been relatively less work, however, examining ... Full text Link to item Cite

Judgments of dangerousness: Are sex offenders assessed differently than civil psychiatric patients?

Journal Article Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · January 1, 2001 Although there has been a great deal of research on sex offenders, researchers have yet to examine how clinicians assess sex offender dangerousness in practice. The purpose of this study was to take a first step toward understanding how professional and pa ... Full text Cite

Gender and perceptions of dangerousness in civil psychiatric patients

Journal Article Legal and Criminological Psychology · January 1, 2001 Purpose. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between gender and clinicians' judgments of dangerousness in civil psychiatric facilities. Methods. Eighty-one clinicians working in acute, chronic or crisis settings rated violence ris ... Full text Cite

From the psychiatric hospital to the community: integrating conditional release and contingency management.

Journal Article Behav Sci Law · 2000 Psychiatric hospital recidivism has been and continues to be a persistent problem in treating individuals with chronic mental illness. Conditional release, a form of involuntary outpatient commitment, has been suggested as one possible solution. Guided by ... Full text Link to item Cite

The role of serotonin in violence and schizophrenia: Implications for risk assessment

Journal Article Journal of Psychiatry and Law · January 1, 2000 This article examines dynamic biological factors associated with violence and schizophrenia to help explain inconsistent findings in the empirical literature on risk assessment. In particular, the role of serotonin in both violence and schizophrenia is rev ... Full text Cite

The psychiatric hospital and therapeutic jurisprudence: applying the law to promote mental health.

Journal Article New Dir Ment Health Serv · 1999 If the law provided for accessible and efficient means to facilitate mental health treatment, the law itself could be a component of the comprehensive care system. ... Full text Link to item Cite