4 years ago
An update has been posted today and shared with all TMACT users across the US and abroad, as well as posted on our website (where you can download the TMACT). When developing the TMACT, we omitted DACTS’ items that addressed features of the team that were not necessarily defining of ACT program fidelity, albeit likely …
4 years ago
“What Schizophrenia Does to Families“ A mother, a son, an unraveling mind — and a mental health system that can’t keep up This is an overwhelmingly familiar, sad, discouraging read. It evoked many reactions, including — a continued fragmented, underfunded, antiquated system of care (day treatment; unregulated group homes). I’m thankful that, despite the many …
4 years ago
Impairments in social functioning are central to Schizophrenia (SCZ). Patients with SCZ have challenges in the ability to evaluate their functioning. A correlate of self-assessments in SCZ is depression, wherein negligible depression predicts overestimation. Healthy individuals misestimate their functioning, but mild dysthymia predicts accuracy. We examined depression, gender, and schizophrenia as predictors of self-reported everyday …
4 years ago
Black Americans are disproportionately diagnosed with schizophrenia and experience worse objective functional outcomes than their White counterparts. This study assessed race and domains of functioning known to be associated with objective outcomes in a sample of individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders from the Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation (SCOPE) study…read more. Nagendra A, Halverson TF, Pinkham AE, …
4 years ago
Persons diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) often experience pervasive feelings of loneliness, which are considered a significant barrier to treatment and recovery. As impaired social cognition may contribute to increased loneliness and less skillful social interactions, this study examines the relationships between loneliness and measures of social cognition and functional outcome from the Social …
4 years ago
Psychosocial treatments have demonstrated reliable improvements in social cognition (SC) abilities, highlighting the need for accurate identification of SC deficits for efficient and individualized treatment planning. To this end, the Observable Social Cognition Rating Scale (OSCARS) is a scale with both self and informant versions. This study investigated psychometric properties of the OSCARS as both …
4 years ago
Suicide risk among individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) is intractably high, with over 40% of individuals attempting to take their own lives during their lifetime and an estimated 5-10% completing suicide. Aerobic exercise (AE) has been shown to improve a number of predictors of suicide risk (e.g., depressed mood, sleeping difficulties)…read more. Beck-Felts K, Goodman M, …
4 years ago
Face perception is a highly developed function of the human visual system. Previous studies of event-related potentials (ERPs) have identified a face-selective ERP component in healthy participants. In contrast, patients with schizophrenia exhibit reduced amplitude of the N170 component, which may represent a pathological deficit in the neurophysiology of face perception…read more Ahn S, Lustenberger …
4 years ago
This 2 1/2-day in-person training accompanied with pre-recorded webinars covers ACT topics, including: ACT History, Research, and Fidelity; ACT Staffing; ACT Leadership: ACT Medical Team; ACT specialists and related specialty services (co-occurring substance use, employment, peer support, housing, psychiatric rehabilitation); assertive outreach; assessment and person-centered planning; and daily team meeting. Training is led by UNC …
4 years ago
The idea came as many great ideas come. Thava Mahadevan was watching an HGTV show about the latest real estate craze, Tiny Homes. “Certainly it made sense. You build it small,” he said. Finding affordable housing for people in need had been a lifelong goal of his, and suddenly he saw a way to make …
5 years ago
A Wisconsin colleague and friend had posed a question to the listserv last month, of which 20 of you provided some responses (thank you!). The essence of the question was — do you have access to a specialized psychiatric crisis response center and/or do you interface with a general hospital’s crisis center. Related questions sought …
5 years ago
The Institute’s Penny Liles & Melissa DeHaven presented on IPS Fidelity at the recent NC APSE Conference in Blowing Rock. Trends in the state’s 5 years of data were compared to the IPS Learning Collaborative’s larger data set. In the afternoon, Melissa & Penny continued by speaking on Assertive Engagement strategies. Training Dates: October 9-11, …
