As the total number of persons held within the U.S. immigration detention system has grown, the number of detained persons with severe mental illnesses has grown correspondingly. Reports issued by the government, legal and human rights advocates, and the media have brought to light a problematic and growing detention system with pervasive legal and mental health care disparities. Described are ...

Many housing programs for people with mental illnesses rely on models that require the person to adhere to treatment as a condition of continuing access to housing. These models that 'bundle' housing and treatment are relics of a past in which persons with mental illnesses were afforded little real choice in treatment, housing and other social supports. Conditioning access to housing in this ma...

Walter E. Penk, PhD, ABPP We begin by thanking the Editor of the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD) for commissioning a special issue on psychosocial rehabilitation (PSR) for persons with serious mental illnesses. For many years, the conventional wisdom in the field of mental health has been that serious mental illnesses result in inevitable deterioration. Professional pr...

In this paper, we investigate the influence of self-reported health and register-based prescription medicine purchases on re-employment chances, and whether these health indicators measure similar aspects of health in this analysis. Data came from a 2006 Danish unemployment survey among a random sample of unemployed individuals enriched with register data (2006-2008, N=1806). The survey partici...

Stigma is the society's development of prejudiced attitudes and behaviors against individual due to diagnosis treatment associated with mental illnesses, individual's exposure discrimination within social group. can be observed as internalized. Social stigma limit people's opportunities, options competitive conditions. Internalized internalization beliefs related discriminatory approach environ...

Mental illnesses affect roughly 20 percent of the US population. Like other health conditions, mental impose costs on individuals; they also generate that extend to family members and larger society. Care for has evolved quite differently from rest care sector. While medical in general seen major advances technology treatment this not been case same extent illnesses. Relative illnesses, cost gr...

Mental illness and its treatment are largely invisible. We use multiple publicly available data sources to evaluate changes in the well-being of Americans with mental illnesses over the past decade. We find that access to care, including specialty psychiatric and inpatient care, and financial protection have improved. However, not all people with mental health problems have shared in these impr...

With the passage of the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA), Congress took an important first step toward equalizing treatment under medical plans between physical and mental illnesses by requiring parity in annual and lifetime dollar limits between physical and mental illness. But the Act was limited in scope: it did not mandate mental health benefits nor prohibit other common types of dif...

Brain research on mental illnesses has made substantial advances in recent years, supported by conceptual and technological developments in cognitive neuroscience. Brain-based cognitive models of illnesses such as schizophrenia and depression have been tested with a variety of techniques, including the lesion method, tract tracing, neuroimaging, animal modeling, single-cell recording, electroph...