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| D S SrebnikSummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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Advance directives for mental health treatmentD S Srebnik
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 98104, USA
Psychiatr Serv 50:919-25. 1999....- Consistency of psychiatric crisis care with advance directive instructionsDebra S Srebnik
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Box 359911, 325 9th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:1157-63. 2007..This article presents the first empirical data regarding rates and predictors of whether crisis care is consistent with psychiatric advance directives... - Competency for creation, use, and revocation of psychiatric advance directivesDebra S Srebnik
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Box 359911, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 34:501-10. 2006..As more directives are created and used, additional research and statutory refinements are warranted... - The content and clinical utility of psychiatric advance directivesDebra S Srebnik
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Psychiatr Serv 56:592-8. 2005..This paper provides the first systematic examination of the content and clinical utility of psychiatric advance directives, which are documents that specify treatment preferences in advance of periods of compromised decision making... 
Use of psychiatric advance directives during psychiatric crisis eventsDebra Srebnik
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington Harborview Medical Center, 325 9th Avenue, Box 359911, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 35:272-82. 2008..Creation of more directives to increase clinician and system familiarity and more consistent appointment of surrogate decision-makers could increase use of directives...- Implementing psychiatric advance directives: service provider issues and answersDebra Srebnik
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Box 359911, 325 9th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 30:253-68. 2003..Recommendations are made for training staff and consumers, consideration of statute development, and methods to reduce logistical, attitudinal, and system barriers to effective use of PADs... - Interest in psychiatric advance directives among high users of crisis services and hospitalizationDebra S Srebnik
Department of Psychiatry and Behavorial Sciences, University of Washington in Seattle, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359911, 325 9th Avenue, Seattle, Washington, 98104, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:981-6. 2003..This study examined rates of interest in creating psychiatric advance directives among individuals at risk of psychiatric crises in which these directives might be used and variables associated with interest in the directives... - Psychometric properties and utility of the problem severity summary for adults with serious mental illnessDebra S Srebnik
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 98104, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:1010-7. 2002..The authors studied the psychometric properties and utility of the Problem Severity Summary (PSS), a 13-item instrument that assesses symptom severity and functioning among adults with severe and persistent mental illness... - Initial findings from Parent Party Patrol: an intervention to reduce adolescent substance use through reduced involvement in unchaperoned partiesDebra S Srebnik
University of Washington, USA
J Drug Educ 32:13-23. 2002..As adolescent substance use is a multidetermined problem, PPP may be best viewed as one part of a broader comprehensive substance abuse prevention program... - Support needed to create psychiatric advance directivesTracy Peto
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 359911, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 31:409-19. 2004..While one-third of participants wanted support from case managers to complete PADs, the appropriate level of clinician support is not clear-cut, and should be at consumers' discretion... - Factors associated with high use of public mental health services by persons with borderline personality disorderKatherine Anne Comtois
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:1149-54. 2003..The research presented here was a pilot study to identify clinical factors associated with high use (as opposed to lower use) of inpatient psychiatric services by persons with borderline personality disorder... - Use of case manager ratings and weekly urine toxicology tests among outpatients with dual diagnosesRichard K Ries
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Harborview Mental Health Services, Seattle 98104, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:764-6. 2002..These findings have implications for monitoring patients with dual diagnoses and provide insight into the accuracy of case manager ratings... - Statistical and consensus-based strategies for grouping consumers in mental health level-of-care schemesEdwina S Uehara
School of Social Work, University of Washington, 4101 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 6299, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 30:287-306. 2003..It explores the advantages of integrating elements of each strategy... - Outcomes of managing disability benefits among patients with substance dependence and severe mental illnessRichard K Ries
Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Psychiatr Serv 55:445-7. 2004..Patients and case managers who participated in the study reported that they found the management strategy to be acceptable and useful... - Assessing competence to complete psychiatric advance directives with the competence assessment tool for psychiatric advance directivesDebra Srebnik
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 98105, USA
Compr Psychiatry 45:239-45. 2004..Such use of the CAT-PAD may allow clinicians to better trust the content of PADs, which may, in turn, increase the likelihood PADs will be honored... - Cultural and contextual influences in mental health help seeking: a focus on ethnic minority youthAna Mari Cauce
Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 70:44-55. 2002..The authors argue that an understanding of these help-seeking pathways provides insights into ethnic group differences in mental health care utilization and that further research in this area is needed... - Geriatric patients improve as much as younger patients from hospitalization on general psychiatric unitsMark B Snowden
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1676-80. 2004..To determine whether geriatric patients aged 65 and older on general adult psychiatric units improve as much as younger patients, over what duration their improvement occurs, and their risk of readmission... - Unlinking disability income, substance use and adverse outcomes in dually diagnosed, severely mentally ill outpatientsRichard K Ries
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98107, USA
Am J Addict 13:390-7. 2004..Findings suggest that combined treatment/benefit management programs are clinically feasible and effective in stabilizing patients and keeping them in treatment...
Research Grants
- IMPACT OF MENTAL HEALTH ADVANCE DIRECTIVESDebra Srebnik; Fiscal Year: 2004..Multi- stakeholder focus groups will be conducted for Aim 2c. Electronic information systems will provide demographic, diagnostic, level-of-functioning, outpatient commitment status and service utilization data. ..