Joe Westermeyer

..A low rate of mental health treatment since military duty may have contributed to increased symptoms and a lower remission rate...

..Fifth, comorbidity would become a more useful concept if defined as major, intermediate, and minor comorbidity, occurring at class, subclass, and infraclass levels...

..Controlled studies of buprenorphine/naloxone withdrawal regimens over varying time frames would help to illuminate the most effective means of opioid discontinuation and inform clinical care...

..Remission was associated with absence of a current Axis 1 diagnosis, especially absence of a current post-traumatic stress disorder...

..Primary prevention and early treatment of SUD in SCZ patients are still relatively neglected, though they offer our greatest hope for enhancing the lives of people with SCZ and improving the cost efficacy of care...

..To assess psychiatric morbidity associated with having no, one, or two parents with Substance Use Disorder (SUD), among patients receiving SUD care...

..Sleep logs especially under-count awakenings in PTSD patients with sleep complaints...

..Clinicians can expect that adoptees should manifest milder levels of SUD morbidity, similar to "non-heredity" SUD...

..SAMPLE STUDY: participants consisted of 557 North Central American Indian veterans...

..VA facilities should out-reach to American Indian women, who report a willingness to seek mental health services but may avoid VA care...

..This study assessed whether a simple, readily implemented four-symptom somatic screen would be able to effectively identify current posttraumatic stress symptoms in victimized populations...

..Finally, the account summarizes those clinical, research, educational, consultative, and leadership roles that cultural training influenced during my career...

..Strategies used for resettlement of these two groups differed greatly. Based on these differences, the author recommends a refugee resettlement strategy aimed at improved mental health and optimal acculturation for future refugee groups...

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..To assess the association between numbers of parents (i.e., 0, 1 or 2) with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and proband's SUD severity and morbidity...

..Although female gender and lower SES were both associated with CPA, the relationships were separate (i.e., women did not have lower SES)...

..Self-help tends to occur more often after exposure to addicted relatives or addiction treatment. Clinicians and public adult education should promulgate self-help methods in the general population...

..This community-based study was undertaken to understand why Native-American veterans in the Upper Midwest choose not to use VA mental health services despite high rates of certain psychiatric disorders...

..This study in a clinical population did not demonstrate its utility as a screening instrument; additional work is needed to reveal its utility for this purpose...

..Network complexity may be amenable to short-term change, whereas network size may be more related to longer-term coping...

..CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the need to recognize torture in African refugees, especially women, identify indicators of posttraumatic stress in torture survivors, and provide additional resources to care for tortured refugees...

..We examined the prevalence and clinical correlates of pathological gambling among 1228 American Indian and Hispanic American veterans in the southwest and north central regions of the United States...

..Maintaining a culture of trust was crucial in recovering from damaging environmental events that threatened data collection...

..Participatory and qualitative methods reveal events and event types that have not been previously defined. The CTI warrants further testing after revision to incorporate items and event types determined by qualitative methods...

..We also examined the relationship between alcohol craving and the clinical characteristics of alcohol-dependent patients...

..This paper reports a study identifying the demographic characteristics, self-reported trauma and torture prevalence, and association of trauma experience and health and social problems among Somali and Oromo women refugees...

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..Demographic characteristics, psychiatric disorder, and past psychiatric treatment did not differ in association with ASPD...

..Post hoc tests supported cut-off levels at 3 and at 4 symptoms. Conclusion is that the HADStress Screen can serve as an efficient, nonthreatening screen for posttraumatic stress symptoms among refugees...

..Legal and family problems appear to be powerfully associated with ASPD and predictive of other problems as well as SUD treatment...

..Daily charting of PTS symptoms over prolonged periods is feasible. This prospective PTSD symptom charting method may have therapeutic, clinical, and research potential for understanding individual and group patterns in PTSD over time...

..To examine demographic factors, childhood experiences and behaviour problems and adult psychopathology associated with a history of adult traumatic brain injury (TBI) with unconsciousness in patients with substance use disorders (SUD)...

..This unmet need, coupled with the evidence for positive clinical outcomes, highlights the call for implementing socially sanctioned mechanisms of coercion...

..Refugees experience multiple traumatic events and have significant associated health problems, but data about refugee trauma and health status are often conflicting and difficult to interpret...

..The CTI-104 is reliable and valid, and assesses a broader range of traumatic war-related events in a broader range of refugees than currently available instruments...

..The philosophical, historical, and societal aspects of coerced treatment are considered...