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Psychiatric Services

Volume 60, Issue 12

PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES December 2009 Volume 60 Number 12
December 2009
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Taking Issue
December 2009
A Convenient Truth
  • Page:1573
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1573

This Month's Highlights
December 2009
December 2009: This Month's Highlights
  • Page:1581
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1581

Our Reviewers
December 2009
Appreciation to Reviewers
  • Pages:1582–1585
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1582

Column
December 2009
Datapoints: Racial and Ethnic Patterns in Claim-Identified Mental Disorders Among Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries
  • Page:1586
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1586

December 2009
Personal Accounts: A Peer Saplings Story: Lifting the Veil on Parents With Mental Illness and Their Daughters and Sons
  • Pages:1587–1588
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1587

Article
December 2009
Implementation of Mental Health Parity: Lessons From California
  • Pages:1589–1594
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1589

December 2009
Identifying Clinically Questionable Psychotropic Prescribing Practices for Medicaid Recipients in New York State
  • Pages:1595–1602
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1595

December 2009
Commentary: Real-Time Computerized Support Systems
  • Page:1603
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1603

December 2009
Costs Associated With Changes in Antidepressant Treatment in a Managed Care Population With Major Depressive Disorder
  • Pages:1604–1611
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1604

December 2009
Health Care Utilization and Its Costs for Depressed Veterans With and Without Comorbid PTSD Symptoms
  • Pages:1612–1617
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1612

December 2009
Perceived Need for Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorders: Results From Two National Surveys
  • Pages:1618–1628
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1618

December 2009
Randomized Controlled Trial of Illness Management and Recovery in Multiple-Unit Supportive Housing
  • Pages:1629–1636
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1629

December 2009
Supported Employment Specialist Strategies to Assist Clients With Severe Mental Illness and Criminal Justice Issues
  • Pages:1637–1641
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1637

December 2009
Community Integration and Associated Factors Among Older Adults With Schizophrenia
  • Pages:1642–1648
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1642

December 2009
Mental Disorders Among Young Adults Self-Referred and Referred by Professionals to Specialty Mental Health Care
  • Pages:1649–1655
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1649

December 2009
Patterns of Psychiatric Hospitalization Among Ethiopian and Former Soviet Union Immigrants and Persons Born in Israel
  • Pages:1656–1663
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1656

Open Forum
December 2009
Disproportionate Use of Psychiatric Emergency Services by African Americans
  • Pages:1664–1671
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1664

Brief Report
December 2009
The Status of States' Policies to Support Evidence-Based Practices in Children's Mental Health
  • Pages:1672–1675
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1672

December 2009
Access to Medical Care, Use of Preventive Services, and Chronic Conditions Among Adults in Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Pages:1676–1679
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1676

December 2009
Diagnoses and Dropout Among Patients of Danish Psychiatrists in Private Practice
  • Pages:1680–1682
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1680

December 2009
Characteristics of Inpatients With a History of Recurrent Psychiatric Hospitalizations: A Matched-Control Study
  • Pages:1683–1685
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1683

December 2009
Metabolic Risk Factors Among Medicaid Outpatients With Schizophrenia Receiving Second-Generation Antipsychotics
  • Pages:1686–1689
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1686

Frontline Report
December 2009
Combining Supported Education With Supported Employment
  • Page:1690
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1690

December 2009
Getting Juvenile Justice Clients Home: A Primary Care Bridging Service
  • Page:1691
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1691

Book Review
December 2009
Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
  • Page:1692
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1692

December 2009
The Unit
  • Pages:1692–1693
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1692a

December 2009
Handle With Care
  • Page:1693
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1693

December 2009
Night Navigation: A Novel
  • Pages:1693–1694
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1693a

December 2009
Towards Another Summer
  • Page:1694
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1694

December 2009
Peripheral Vision
  • Pages:1694–1695
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1694a

December 2009
Fredrik's Winter: A Novel About Love, Mental Illness, and Rebirth
  • Page:1695
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1695

December 2009
Testimony
  • Pages:1695–1696
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1695a

December 2009
My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare
  • Page:1696
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1696

December 2009
A Reliable Wife
  • Pages:1696–1697
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1696a

December 2009
The House of Widows: An Oral History
  • Page:1697
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1697

News & Notes
December 2009
Bazelon Center's Blueprint for Community Reentry of Inmates With Mental Illnesses
  • Page:1698
  • Published Online:1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1698

December 2009
Federal Action Plan for Improving Responses to Children of Incarcerated Parents
  • Pages:1698–1699
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1698a

December 2009
News Briefs
  • Page:1699
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1699