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| Lonnie SnowdenSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Medicaid and African American outpatient mental health treatmentL R Snowden
Center for Mental Health Services Research, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, 94720 7400, USA
Ment Health Serv Res 2:115-20. 2000..The often-noted difference between Blacks and Whites in the likelihood of receiving outpatient mental health treatment is confined largely to the privately insured...- Minority youth in foster care: managed care and access to mental health treatmentLonnie R Snowden
School of Social Welfare, University of California Berkeley, Berkley, California 94720, USA
Med Care 41:264-74. 2003..Because of an overrepresentation of high-need minority children, foster care in particular is important to consider... 
Bias in mental health assessment and intervention: theory and evidenceLonnie R Snowden
School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA
Am J Public Health 93:239-43. 2003..More research is needed that directly evaluates the contribution of particular forms of bias to disparities in the area of mental health care...- Frequency and scope of mental health service delivery to African Americans in primary careLonnie R Snowden
Center for Mental Health Services Research and School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA
Ment Health Serv Res 4:123-30. 2002..Fewer African American visits resulted in prescribing psychotropic medications, and this corroborated findings by other researchers. More research is needed to understand this disparity... - Cultural differences in access to careLonnie R Snowden
School of Social Welfare and Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 7400, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 1:143-66. 2005..Theoretically well-formulated studies on representative samples can provide a comprehensive explanation of access disparities in cultural and culture-related terms that inform a broad-based plan of remedial intervention... - The impact of realignment on the client population in California's public mental health systemLonnie Snowden
School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley 94720 7400, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 29:229-41. 2002.... - Barriers to effective mental health services for African AmericansL R Snowden
Center for Mental Health Services Research and School of Social Welfare, University of California Berkeley, 94610 7400, USA
Ment Health Serv Res 3:181-7. 2001..More should be learned about differences in need according to location, social standing, and cultural orientation so as to identify treatments and programs that are especially beneficial to African Americans... - Social embeddedness and psychological well-being among African Americans and whitesL R Snowden
Center for Mental Services Research and School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, 120 Haviland Hall, Berkeley, California 94720 7400, USA
Am J Community Psychol 29:519-36. 2001..African American social involvement is more selective than previously believed and generalizations must be qualified on the basis of gender... - Access to mental health treatment by English language proficiency and race/ethnicityTetine Sentell
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 2727 Mariposa Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:289-93. 2007..Limited English proficiency (LEP) may contribute to mental health care disparities, yet empirical data are limited... - Racial/ethnic disparities in the use of mental health services in poverty areasJulian Chun Chung Chow
School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, 209 Haviland Hall No 7400, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Am J Public Health 93:792-7. 2003..This study examined racial/ethnic disparities in mental health service access and use at different poverty levels... - Unemployment and civil commitment: a test of the intolerance hypothesisRalph Catalano
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Aggress Behav 33:272-80. 2007..The test applies Box-Jenkins methods to 156 months (August 1985-July 1998) of data from California. Consistent with theory, results support the hypothesis... - Use of communication technologies to cost-effectively increase the availability of interpretation services in healthcare settingsMary C Masland
Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 7414, USA
Telemed J E Health 16:739-45. 2010..Increased government and foundation support, and collaboration among provider organizations themselves can catalyze these efforts... - Heterogeneity in comorbidity between major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder and its clinical consequencesGeorge J Unick
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:215-24. 2009..Anxiety-related and depression-related symptoms can be meaningfully differentiated, but differentiating between somatic and psychological symptoms has the greatest practical significance... - Racial, cultural and ethnic disparities in health and mental health: toward theory and research at community levelsLonnie R Snowden
20 Haviland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 7400, USA
Am J Community Psychol 35:1-8. 2005.... 
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...- Increasing California children's Medicaid-financed mental health treatment by vigorously implementing Medicaid's Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) ProgramLonnie R Snowden
School of Social Welfare and Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 7400, USA
Med Care 46:558-64. 2008..Expansion of Medicaid's Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) program might help to address this problem... - Racial/ethnic minority children's use of psychiatric emergency care in California's Public Mental Health SystemLonnie R Snowden
Center for Mental Health Services Research, School of Social Welfare, 120 Haviland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7400, USA
Am J Public Health 98:118-24. 2008.... - Alcohol and juvenile justice contacts: a comparison of fee-for-service and capitated medicaid mental health servicesMichelle A Scott
Department of Child Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:44-8. 2002..Capitation is a payment method often accompanying managed care; a fixed fee is paid per person enrolled, for a specific time period and range of services... - Assessment, authorization and access to medicaid managed mental health careMary C Masland
Department of Psychology, Center for Mental Health Services Research, Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, 2140 Shattuck Ave, 409, Berkeley, CA 94720 1414, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 34:548-62. 2007..Lower access occurred in county plans where treating clinicians authorized services themselves. Results confirm the significant effects of managed care processes on outcomes and highlight the importance of system capacity... - Explaining mental health treatment disparities: ethnic and cultural differences in family involvementLonnie R Snowden
Center for Mental Health Services Research, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Cult Med Psychiatry 31:389-402. 2007..The results support the hypothesis that cultural differences in family involvement and support play a role in explaining mental health treatment disparities... - Substitution in a Medicaid mental health carve-out: services and costsAnne M Libby
School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262, USA
J Health Care Finance 28:11-23. 2002..Findings provide evidence of cost substitution from inpatient care both inside the specialty system and outside the carve-out to other child-serving systems... - Capitation and racial and ethnic differences in use and cost of public mental health servicesLonnie R Snowden
School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, 120 Haviland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 7400, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 34:456-64. 2007..Differential rejection by, or exclusion of, African American and Latino consumers did not appear to occur in response to capitation... - Challenges to consensus in preparing the Supplement to the Surgeon General's Report on Mental HealthLonnie R Snowden
Center for Mental Health Services Research, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, 94720 7400, USA
Cult Med Psychiatry 27:409-18. 2003..Preparation of the Supplement illustrates the uncertainty and tension that arise when unexamined boundaries and perspectives lose their capacity to serve as guides to scientific judgment and discourse... - Differential referral patterns to ethnic-specific and mainstream mental health programs for four Asian American groupsPhillip D Akutsu
American Culture Program, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1043, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 77:95-103. 2007..These findings suggest Asian American clients themselves and their social networks may view ethnic-specific programs as more culturally responsive than mainstream programs... - Effects on outpatient and emergency mental health care of strict Medicaid early periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment enforcementLonnie R Snowden
School of Social Welfare and the Center for Mental Health Services Research, Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7400, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1951-6. 2007..Enforcement of EPSDT benefits in accordance with federal law produced favorable changes in patterns of mental health service use, consistent with policy aims... - Variations in use of second-generation antipsychotic medication by race among adult psychiatric patientsDiane M Herbeck
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Psychiatr Serv 55:677-84. 2004..This disparity may also contribute to lower rates of adherence and to more frequent emergency department visits and psychiatric hospitalizations among African Americans.. - Federal civil rights policy and mental health treatment access for persons with limited English proficiencyLonnie R Snowden
Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7400, USA
Am Psychol 62:109-17. 2007..Concerned parties should promote implementation of required measures for language assistance and help to evaluate their implementation and effectiveness...