Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Welcoming the Voices of Lived Experience
As our journal has been working diligently to develop strategies to address racism in our content and processes, I have been listening to and learning from partners and collaborators with lived experience of mental illness. Progressive voices in our field have been encouraging meaningful lived experience involvement for a very long time (e.g., as noted in the 2003 report of the President’s New Freedom Commission), but these voices have not achieved meaningful change. This is unacceptable. Journals such as
Psychiatric Services and their editors, including me, must be held accountable. At Psychiatric Services, we have created a new column on Lived Experience Inclusion and Leadership, edited by Nev Jones, Ph.D., and Keris Myrick, M.B.A., M.S. The column’s name intentionally goes beyond inclusion to leadership. Further, Jones and colleagues emphasize the need for “greater inclusion of individuals … with the most (potentially) disabling and stigmatized diagnoses” (1). This past year, I have been making a concerted effort to include an individual with lived experience during peer review. This is a start, but it is far from enough. We have to organize such that we implement strategies to promote participation and skills in reviewing manuscripts and ensuring that every article is reviewed with a lived experience lens. We must consider creative ways to promote the engagement of individuals with lived experience to submit manuscripts—whether they be research papers, columns, or essays such as Open Forum. The first step will be to create
a working group/advisory to guide this process. We have a running start, but need to be more strategic and intentional. I welcome suggestions and ideas.
—Lisa B. Dixon, M.D., M.P.H.
Editor,
Psychiatric Services
December 7, 2021
1. Lived Experience, Research Leadership, and the Transformation of Mental Health Services:
Building a Researcher Pipeline
Nev Jones, Ph.D., Kendall Atterbury, Ph.D., Louise Byrne, Ph.D., Michelle Carras, Ph.D., Marie Brown, Ph.D., Peter Phalen, Ph.D.
Psychiatr Serv 2021; 72:591–593
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Call for Papers
Psychiatric Services welcomes high-quality submissions addressing the delivery of mental health services. Authors should be able to answer the questions, How does this paper inform or improve service delivery? and What knowledge gap is this paper closing? We encourage broad and diverse viewpoints. A global perspective allows consideration of an expansive range of problems and solutions. We welcome submissions that focus on various populations (e.g., children, adults, underserved) and types of disorders (e.g., addiction, psychosis, trauma). No population or type of disorder is excluded. Submissions are especially welcome in the following areas:
- Integration of psychiatric and general medical care
- Criminal justice and psychiatric services
- Suicide prevention
- Digital and online psychiatric services
- Social determinants of health in psychiatric care
- Implementation strategies
- Impact and alleviation of bias, racism, and health disparities
- Effectiveness of peer support interventions
- Incorporating voices of lived experience in care
- Effects of federal, state, and local policies on people with serious mental illness
- Substance use and mental illness, particularly in public-sector populations
- Early interventions and preventive strategies
Submissions will undergo the journal’s standard rigorous peer review. Various study designs may be used. Randomized trials are welcomed but not required, as are other designs that balance internal and external validity.
To submit your paper, please visit
https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/ and select Submit.
Psychiatric Services Introduces New Board Members
Psychiatric Services is pleased to announce the appointment of the following individuals to the Editorial Board:
- Deidre M. Anglin, Ph.D.
- Chyrell Bellamy, Ph.D., M.S.W.
- Sidney H. Hankerson, M.D., M.B.A.
- Nev Jones, Ph.D.
- Michael A. Lindsey, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.P.H.
New Column on Lived Experience Inclusion & Leadership
Psychiatric Services introduces a new column that aims to publish critical analyses, case studies, and reports on the involvement and leadership of mental health service users (peers and consumers) and caregivers in mental and behavioral health service delivery.
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New Column on Racism & Mental Health Equity
Psychiatric Services is pleased to welcome Michael Mensah, M.D., M.P.H., Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, M.D., M.S., and Ruth S. Shim, M.D., M.P.H., as coeditors of a new column: Racism & Mental Health Equity.
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Controversies in Psychiatric Services Opens Submissions on Topic 3: COVID-19 Impact on Staffing Shortages
Coeditors: Matthew D. Erlich, M.D., Patrick Runnels, M.D., M.B.A., and Rachel
Talley, M.D.
The coeditors of the Controversies in Psychiatric Services
column are opening submissions on Topic 3. COVID-19 continues to complicate and accelerate behavioral health systems issues, yielding opportunities to rethink traditional systems of care. Here, we present the first of a series of Controversies topics delving further into these challenges:
Psychiatrist staffing shortages have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, limiting access to mental health treatment. Increasing the role of advanced practice psychiatric nurses and physician assistants in the delivery of psychiatric services is the best approach to address these shortages.
Controversies in Psychiatric Services highlights topical areas to the field of psychiatry where there may be debate, disagreements, or divisiveness. Submissions focus on a specific topic. Accepted papers will be published together, offering differing viewpoints on that topic. The goal is to foster new perspectives, promote further discourse, and, hopefully, generate new conclusions while maintaining the civility and intellectual rigor appropriate to an academic journal. Topics are chosen by the editors on the basis of the timeliness and importance of the controversy. Interested authors may submit papers describing one viewpoint on the topic (limited to 1,200 words and 5 references that are core to the argument; no abstract, tables, or figures). The editors may also reach out to individuals to request column submissions based on specific topics.
Contributions may be submitted at
mc.manuscriptcentral.com/appi-ps. Coeditor Rachel Talley, M.D., will oversee Topic 3 submissions.
Implementation of an Adapted Collaborative Care Model
- Sara A. Haack, M.D., M.P.H.,
- Davis Rehuher, B.A.,
- Asad Ghiasuddin, M.D.,
- Tiffinie Kiyota, M.B.A., M.H.R.M.,
- Tholman P. Alik, M.B.B.S.
Identifying Diagnoses of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder in Large Data Sets
- Nicole M. Benson, M.D., M.B.I.,
- Zhiyou Yang, Ph.D.,
- Max Weiss, A.B.,
- Vicki Fung, Ph.D.,
- Lauren V. Moran, M.D., M.P.H.,
- Dost Öngür, M.D., Ph.D.,
- John Hsu, M.D., M.B.A.
Addressing Health Equity and Racism Through a Hispanic Psychiatry Fellowship
- Esperanza Díaz, M.D.,
- Luis Añez Nava, Psy.D.,
- Susan Parke, M.D.,
- Michelle Silva, Psy.D.,
- Francis G. Lu, M.D.,
- Larry Davidson, Ph.D.,
- Maria Restrepo-Toro, M.S.,
- Ayana Jordan, M.D., Ph.D.,
- Maria Garcia Vassallo, M.D.,
- Andrea Mendiola, M.D.,
- Jeanne Steiner, D.O.,
- Charles Dike, F.R.C.Psych., MB.Ch.B.
Call for Papers
Podcast
42: Deepening Engagement of Service User Participation Within Research and the Mental Health System
Marie Brown, Ph.D., and Nev Jones, Ph.D., join Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss steps to build a pipeline of researchers with significant psychiatric disabilities and intersecting lived experiences, as well as increasing service user participation in the U.S. mental health care system.
Psychiatric Services Welcomes New Reviewers
Professionals in the mental health disciplines who are qualified to review are invited to contact the Editor, Lisa B. Dixon, M.D., M.P.H. Qualifications include prior publication of articles in your specialty area in peer-reviewed journals; current knowledge of recently published research in that area; familiarity with Psychiatric Services’ audience and recent publications in your field; and willingness to invest the time needed to thoroughly evaluate the manuscripts you agree to review. In your message, please include a list of representative publications and/or professional activities.
Persons who review for the journal will receive published acknowledgment for reviewing. Further information for reviewers can be found here.
Is “Personal Recovery” a Useful Measure of Clinical Outcome?
The New York Times recently reported on a Psychiatric Services research article and associated Taking Issue on the measurement of recovery as a clinical outcome.
Filling a Critical Niche for Seven Decades
Read a recent Psychiatric News article on the history of the journal.