Continuity of care in serious mental illness

Shared Care in Serious Mental Illness:

Travel Risks for Those With Serious Mental Illness

Introduction: It has been known for a long time in the French-speaking, but not the English-speaking literature that travel can exacerbate pre-existing psychosis. The purpose of this article was to review the literature on this subject and present recommendations for prevention. Methods: For this narrative review of the literature on travel risks in indivi...

Physical health care monitoring for people with serious mental illness.

BACKGROUND Current guidance suggests that we should monitor the physical health of people with serious mental illness, and there has been a significant financial investment over recent years to provide this. OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of physical health monitoring, compared with standard care for people with serious mental illness. SEARCH METHODS We searched the Cochrane Schizop...

Prenatal Care for Women with Serious Mental Illness

The lifetime prevalence of serious mental illness (SMI) for women in the United States is nearly 6% (NIMH, 2012). Women in this group often have lifestyle and socioeconomic characteristics that lead to poor health status and delays in seeking heath care. While women with SMI are just as likely to have children as their nonmentally ill counterparts, they are more likely to experience pregnancy c...

Mothers with serious mental illness.

Mental health services have generally ignored the parenting needs of women with serious mental illness. This chapter identifies the parenting risks and strengths that these women display, as well as the opportunities available to psychologists to play a key role in improving mother and child outcomes.