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Severely mentally ill consumers' perspectives on drug useJennifer Alvidrez
Treatment Outcome Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 1316, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 36:347-55. 2004..These findings have implications for substance abuse treatment for SMI clients, particularly interventions that emphasize education about drug use as a way to increase motivation for treatment...- Clinical characteristics and service utilization patterns of clients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders in public residential detoxification settingsJennifer Alvidrez
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0852 TRCR, USA
Community Ment Health J 42:131-42. 2006..Findings indicate that detoxification programs may be important settings in which to identify clients with schizophrenia who have unmet mental health treatment needs... - Physician willingness to refer older depressed patients for psychotherapyJennifer Alvidrez
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco 94115, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 32:21-35. 2002..The purpose of this study was to assess attitudes toward psychotherapy for late-life depression and to identify predictors of physician willingness to refer older patients to psychotherapy... - Psychosocial treatment research with ethnic minority populations: ethical considerations in conducting clinical trialsJ Alvidrez
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, 401 Parnassus Avenue, 1316 San Francisco, CA 94143
Ethics Behav 12:103-16. 2002.... - Psychoeducation to increase psychotherapy entry for older African AmericansJennifer Alvidrez
UCSF Dept of Psychiatry, Box 0852 TRCR, San Francisco, CA 94143 0852, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 13:554-61. 2005..This pilot study examined the impact of a brief psychoeducational intervention on treatment entry and attendance for older African American medical patients referred for psychotherapy... - Racial distribution of dual-diagnosis clients in public sector mental health and drug treatment settingsJennifer Alvidrez
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 16:53-62. 2005..The implications of these findings regarding the appropriate treatment for dual-diagnosis blacks and whites in the public sector are discussed... - Research issues for improving treatment of U.S. Hispanics with persistent mental disordersWilliam Armando Vega
Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:385-94. 2007.... - Ethical considerations in psychotherapy effectiveness research: choosing the comparison groupP A Arean
Department of Psychiatry, 401 Parnassus Avenue, Box F 0984, San Francisco, CA 94143 0984, USA
Ethics Behav 12:63-73. 2002..For purposes of precision, we focus exclusively on psychotherapy effectiveness research rather than system-intervention research or medication-intervention research... - Treating depressive disorders: who responds, who does not respond, and who do we need to study?P A Arean
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
J Fam Pract 50:E2. 2001..Future research should focus on treatment-resistant depression and special populations that have been understudied... 
Disparities in use of mental health and substance abuse services by persons with co-occurring disordersBarbara E Havassy
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Ave, Box 0984 TRC, San Francisco, CA 94143 0984, USA
Psychiatr Serv 60:217-23. 2009..Individuals with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders require psychiatric and substance abuse treatments. A critical question is whether these individuals are treated for both disorders...- Overrepresentation of black Americans in psychiatric inpatient careLonnie R Snowden
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 120 Haviland Hall MC 7400, Berkeley, CA 94720 7400, USA
Psychiatr Serv 60:779-85. 2009..S.- and foreign-born Caribbean blacks... 
Effect of racial and ethnic composition of neighborhoods in San Francisco on rates of mental health-related 911 callsEric R Kessell
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Psychiatr Serv 60:1376-8. 2009..This study investigated the association between the racial and ethnic residential composition of San Francisco neighborhoods and the rate of mental health-related 911 calls...- Psychoeducation to address stigma in black adults referred for mental health treatment: a randomized pilot studyJennifer Alvidrez
UCSF Department of Psychiatry, University of California, 2727 Mariposa St, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Community Ment Health J 45:127-36. 2009..Findings indicate the need to move beyond "customer satisfaction" to evaluate educational interventions, as well as for greater understanding of differential impact of stigma reduction interventions... - Risk perception and preference for prevention of Alzheimer's diseaseSukyung Chung
Phillip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94301, USA
Value Health 12:450-8. 2009.... - The relationship between stigma and other treatment concerns and subsequent treatment engagement among black mental health clientsJennifer Alvidrez
University of California San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry, 2727 Mariposa St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Issues Ment Health Nurs 31:257-64. 2010..More work is clearly needed to understand the complex relationship between stigma and help-seeking in black populations and other underserved groups... - The experience of stigma among Black mental health consumersJennifer Alvidrez
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 2727 Mariposa St, Ste 100, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 19:874-93. 2008..These consumer perspectives may be valuable to Black individuals who are contemplating seeking mental health treatment... - Involving consumers in the development of a psychoeducational booklet about stigma for black mental health clientsJennifer Alvidrez
Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, California 94110, USA
Health Promot Pract 11:249-58. 2010..Results from this project suggest that the strategy of involving consumers is a feasible approach to develop psychoeducational materials that address treatment barriers in underserved populations... - Reduction of state victim compensation disparities in disadvantaged crime victims through active outreach and assistance: a randomized trialJennifer Alvidrez
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 2727 Mariposa St, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Am J Public Health 98:882-8. 2008..We examined whether providing active outreach and assistance to crime victims as part of comprehensive psychosocial services reduced disparities in access to state compensation funds... - Adherence to antidepressant medications in black and Latino elderly patientsLiat Ayalon
Univ of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Ave, CPT, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 13:572-80. 2005..The purpose of this pilot study was to identify ethnic group differences in nonadherence and to determine predictors of nonadherence to antidepressant medications in older minority-group members... - Recruitment and retention of older minorities in mental health services researchPatricia A Arean
Department of Psychiatry, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Gerontologist 43:36-44. 2003.... - Comparisons of patients with comorbid psychiatric and substance use disorders: implications for treatment and service deliveryBarbara E Havassy
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:139-45. 2004..The hypothesis that there are meaningful clinical differences between patients with comorbid mental health disorders and patients in drug treatment was tested... - The role of provider attitudes in prescribing antidepressants to older adults: leverage points for effective provider educationPatricia A Arean
University of California, San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry, 94143 0984, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 33:241-56. 2003.... - Outreach, engagement, and practical assistance: essential aspects of PTSD care for urban victims of violent crimeVanessa G Kelly
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Trauma Violence Abuse 11:144-56. 2010..Finally, the article concludes with recommendations for comprehensive hospital-based urban programs in terms of practice, policy, and research... - Characteristics and psychosocial needs of victims of violent crime identified at a public-sector hospital: data from a large clinical trialAlicia Boccellari
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 29:236-43. 2007..This study explores the feasibility of recruiting acutely injured public-sector crime victims into a research protocol and identifies baseline characteristics associated with posttraumatic distress in the enrolled sample (N=541)... - Would older medical patients use psychological services?Patricia A Arean
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
Gerontologist 42:392-8. 2002..This study examines older patient preferences for psychological services, including the types of services they would be interested in and who should provide them... - Mental health provider perspectives on co-occurring substance use among severely mentally ill clientsAmy A Mericle
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 39:173-81. 2007..Not doing so limits what providers can do for SMI clients and could reduce the effect of larger system-level improvements... - The prevalence of psychiatric disorders and subsyndromal mental illness in low-income, medically ill elderlyP A Arean
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 31:9-24. 2001..This study estimated the past and current prevalence of psychiatric illness and subsyndromal mental illness (both pre-relapse and new onset) in a sample of low-income, medically ill older adults... - Patient decision-making regarding entry into psychotherapy to treat depressionTracy Stecker
VA Health Services Research and Development, Center for Mental Health and Outcomes Research, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, North Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Issues Ment Health Nurs 28:811-20. 2007..Reported attitudes toward psychotherapy were positive. Many perceived therapy as both effective and preferred over medications. Despite positive attitudes, the rate of initiation into psychotherapy remained alarmingly low... - The experience of Black consumers in the mental health system--identifying barriers to and facilitators of mental health treatment using the consumers' perspectiveLiat Ayalon
School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel 52900
Issues Ment Health Nurs 28:1323-40. 2007..The results of this study indicate the importance of educating the general public, not just mental health consumers, about the nature of mental illness and available services... - Gender and ethnic diversity in NIMH-funded clinical trials: review of a decade of published researchWinnie W S Mak
Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
Adm Policy Ment Health 34:497-503. 2007..Less than half of the studies had potential for subgroup analyses by gender and race/ethnicity... - Potential ethnic modifiers in the assessment and treatment of Alzheimer's disease: challenges for the futureWarachal E Faison
Alzheimer s Research and Clinical Programs, Neurosciences Department, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29406, USA
Int Psychogeriatr 19:539-58. 2007..for AD to answer two questions: (1) what are the challenges to diagnose and treat AD across different ethnic groups, and (2) are there differences in response to pharmacologic interventions for AD across these different ethnic groups?..