Recent mass shootings have prompted a national dialogue around mental illness and gun policy. To advance an evidence-informed policy agenda on this controversial issue, we formed a consortium of national gun violence prevention and mental health experts. The consortium agreed on a guiding principle for future policy recommendations: restricting firearm access on the basis of certain dangerous b...

Mental disorders, especially depression, are an important health problem whose growing prevalence is observed in the Primary Care and Mental Health Medical Offices.1 A comprehensive approach for depressive disorders in which primary care professionals and mental health professionals work in a coordinated and complementary way is important.2 There is evidence available that the chronic care mode...

OBJECTIVES To examine the uptake by general practitioners (GPs) of the five key components of the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care (BOiMHC) initiative: education and training for GPs; the three-step mental health process; focussed psychological strategies; access to allied health services; and access to psychiatrist support. SETTING All Australian states and territories during the first ...

Conceptual blending is a mental process that serves a variety cognitive purposes, including human creativity. In this line of thinking, human creativity is modeled as a process that takes different mental spaces as input and combines them into a new mental space, called a blend. According to this form of combinational creativity, a blend is constructed by taking the commonalities among the inpu...

Study selection Studies were selected if they were randomised controlled trials (RCTs), controlled clinical trials (CCTs), or descriptive studies in which current or former users of mental health services with serious psychiatric illness (schizophrenia or bipolar disorder) participated in the design and data collection process of mental health service evaluation. Studies were also selected if u...

BACKGROUND The serious mental illness Health Improvement Profile [HIP] is a brief pragmatic tool, which enables mental health nurses to work together with patients to screen physical health and take evidence-based action when variables are identified to be at risk. Piloting has demonstrated clinical utility and acceptability. METHODS/DESIGN A single blind parallel group cluster randomised con...

background: there is a significant proportion of workers with mental disorders who either are struggling at work or who are trying to return to work from a disability leave. objective: using a population-based survey of working adults in ontario, canada, this paper examines the perceptions of workers towards mental disorders in the workplace. methods: data are from a sample of 2219 working adul...

Systemic reform in education is changing how schools address mental health and psychosocial concerns and is redefining the role of pupil service personnel in the process. This paper (a) highlights how schools currently address mental health, (b) discusses new directions that build on emerging reform themes and reframe prevailing reform models, and (c) outlines ways pupil-service professionals c...

BACKGROUND Little research attention has been given to attempts to implement organisational initiatives to improve quality of care for mental health care, where there is a high level of indeterminacy and clinical judgements are often contestable. This paper explores recent efforts made at an organisational level in England to improve the quality of primary care for people with mental health pro...

The ability to understand and process multiple mental contexts is an important aspect of human cognition. By “mental contexts” we mean different beliefs, states of knowledge, points of view, or suppositions, all of which may change over time. In this paper, we propose an approach for modeling and reasoning about the interactions among multiple mental contexts using the context activation scheme...