This Month's Highlights 

December 2007: This Month's Highlights

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Our Reviewers 

Appreciation to Reviewers

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Taking Issue 

Carol E. Adair

Postdisharge Follow-Up: Research and Practice Disconnect

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Articles 

Benjamin L. Cook, Thomas McGuire, and Jeanne Miranda

Measuring Trends in Mental Health Care Disparities, 2000–2004

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Hoyt S. Alverson, Robert E. Drake, Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song, Edward Chu, Mieka Ritsema, and Beverly Smith

Ethnocultural Variations in Mental Illness Discourse: Some Implications for Building Therapeutic Alliances

Psychiatr Serv 2007 58: 1541-1546 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Transcripts]

Erum Nadeem, Jane M. Lange, Dawn Edge, Marie Fongwa, Tom Belin, and Jeanne Miranda

Does Stigma Keep Poor Young Immigrant and U.S.-Born Black and Latina Women From Seeking Mental Health Care?

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Todd P. Gilmer, Victoria D. Ojeda, David P. Folsom, Dahlia Fuentes, Piedad Garcia, and Dilip V. Jeste

Initiation and Use of Public Mental Health Services by Persons With Severe Mental Illness and Limited English Proficiency

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Bradley D. Stein, Jane N. Kogan, Mark J. Sorbero, Wesley Thompson, and Shari L. Hutchinson

Predictors of Timely Follow-Up Care Among Medicaid-Enrolled Adults After Psychiatric Hospitalization

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Aileen B. Rothbard, Sungeun Lee, Kenneth Culnan, and Sandra Vasko

Service Use and Cost in 2002 Among Clients in Community Settings Who Were Discharged From a State Hospital in 1989

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Jeffrey Draine and Daniel B. Herman

Critical Time Intervention for Reentry From Prison for Persons With Mental Illness

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Melissa Schaefer Morabito

Horizons of Context: Understanding the Police Decision to Arrest People With Mental Illness

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Columns 

Beth Ann Griffin, Rajeev Ramchand, Katherine Harris, Daniel McCaffrey, and Andrew Morral

Datapoints: Smoking Rates Among Adolescents in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs

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Cathleen E. Willging, Leslie Tremaine, Richard L. Hough, Jill S. Reichman, Steven Adelsheim, Karen Meador, and Elizabeth A. Downes

State Mental Health Policy: "We Never Used to Do Things This Way": Behavioral Health Care Reform in New Mexico

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Open Forum 

Rob Whitley

Cultural Competence, Evidence-Based Medicine, and Evidence-Based Practices

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Brief Reports 

Alejandro Interian, Igda E. Martinez, Peter J. Guarnaccia, William A. Vega, and Javier I. Escobar

A Qualitative Analysis of the Perception of Stigma Among Latinos Receiving Antidepressants

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Dawn M. Johnson and Caron Zlotnick

Utilization of Mental Health Treatment and Other Services by Battered Women in Shelters

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Henry J. Steadman, Pamela Clark Robbins, Tariqul Islam, and Fred C. Osher

Revalidating the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen to Increase Accuracy for Women

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Rosario Arce-Cordon, Maria M. Perez-Rodriguez, Enrique Baca-Baldomero, Maria A. Oquendo, and Enrique Baca-Garcia

Routine Laboratory Screening Among Newly Admitted Psychiatric Patients: Is It Worthwhile?

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Letters 

Lisa B. Dixon

The Ten Commandments of Services Research

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Erik Roskes

States' Priorities for Persons With Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System

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Noel A. Mazade and Robert W. Glover

States' Priorities for Persons With Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: Reply

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Stefan Larkin

Origins of the Quadrant Model for Persons With Co-occurring Disorders

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Mark P. McGovern, Robin E. Clark, and Mihail Samnaliev

Origins of the Quadrant Model for Persons With Co-occurring Disorders: Reply

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Book Reviews 

Jeffrey L. Geller

Godless Medicine and The Sixth Cow

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Carolyn B. Robinowitz

Scholar by the Warsaw Fire

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Kayla L. Fisher

Delirium: A Novel

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Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia

Hurricane Punch: A Novel

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Lee Combrinck-Graham

Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

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Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan

Ordinary Heroes: A Novel

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Anita Everett

Last Seen Leaving: A Novel

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Roger Peele and Sheela Kadekar

The Uses Of Enchantment: A Novel

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Joseph Berger

Arthur and George

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Alan D. Schmetzer

The Inhabited World: A Novel

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Edward Kantor

Free Food for Millionaires

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Patricia R. Recupero

Errors and Omissions

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Maggie Bennington-Davis

The Double Bind

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Chuck R. Joy

Dope: A Novel

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Richard Balon

Memorial: A Novel

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Nabil Ali

What You Have Left: A Novel

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Caroline Fisher

Riley's Fire

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News & Notes 

CMHS Report to Congress on Child Mental Health Emphasizes a Public Health Approach

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Status of California's County Mental Health Programs

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News Briefs

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