This special issue is meant to start a conversation about the role of psychiatric rehabilitation researchers, professionals, and consumers in shaping future policies affecting and affected by mental illness.
In particular, this issue focuses on the application of rigorous research methodologies to answer policy-relevant questions to help ensure that decisions affecting our field are evidence-based and address the issues that matter most in the lives of consumers.
Guest Editor
Table of contents
Editorial
- The Application and Importance of Disability Policy Research to the Mental Health Field
Pages 117–122
Blyler, Crystal R.
Employment, Education, and Disability Policy
- Preventing Unemployment and Disability Benefit Receipt Among People With Mental Illness: Evidence Review and Policy Significance
Pages 123–152
O'Day, Bonnie; Kleinman, Rebecca; Fischer, Benjamin; Morris, Eric; Blyler, Crystal - Characteristics of Adults With Psychiatric Disabilities Participating in the Federal Disability Programs
Pages 153–162
Livermore, Gina A.; Bardos, Maura - Psychiatric Versus Physical Disabilities: A Comparison of Barriers and Facilitators to Employment
Pages 163–171
Sevak, Purvi; Khan, Shamima - Occupations and the Prevalence of Major Depressive Episode in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Pages 172–178
Woodward, Albert; Lipari, Rachel; Eaton, William - The Promise of Demand Side Employer-Based Strategies to Increase Employment Rates for People Living With Serious Mental Illnesses
Pages 179–182
Delman, Jonathan; Kovich, Lynn; Burke, Sara; Martone, Kevin - Public Provision of Postsecondary Education for Transition-Age Youth With Mental Health Conditions
Pages 183–196
Honeycutt, Todd C.; Anand, Priyanka; Rubinstein, Max; Stern, Steven N. - Supported Education for Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities: State of the Practice and Policy Implications
Pages 197–206
Ringeisen, Heather; Langer Ellison, Marsha; Ryder-Burge, Amy; Biebel, Kathleen; Alikhan, Shums; Jones, Emily
Medicaid Policy and Health Reform
- Integrating Health Care for High-Need Medicaid Beneficiaries With Serious Mental Illness and Chronic Physical Health Conditions at Managed Care, Provider, and Consumer Levels
Pages 207–215
Kim, Jung Y.; Higgins, Tricia Collins; Esposito, Dominick; Hamblin, Allison - Value of Psychiatric Rehabilitation in a Behavioral Health Medicaid Managed Care System
Pages 216–224
Hutchison, Shari L.; MacDonald-Wilson, Kim L.; Karpov, Irina; Maise, Amanda M.; Wasilchak, Deborah; Schuster, James M. - State Strategies for Coordinating Medicaid and Housing Services
Pages 225–232
Kleinman, Rebecca; Kehn, Matthew; Wishon Siegwarth, Allison; Brown, Jonathan - Relations Among Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Mental Health Status in Primary Care Use
Pages 233–243
Deb, Shreyasi; Miller, Nancy A. - Intersectional Policy Analysis of Self-Directed Mental Health Care in Canada
Pages 244–251
Cook, Judith A.; Morrow, Marina; Battersby, Lupin
Supporting the Workforce
- Working Overtime in Community Mental Health: Associations With Clinician Burnout and Perceived Quality of Care
Pages 252–259
Luther, Lauren; Gearhart, Timothy; Fukui, Sadaaki; Morse, Gary; Rollins, Angela L.; Salyers, Michelle P.
Education and Training
- The Long Road From Policy to Practice
Pages 260–262
Nemec, Patricia B.; Mullen, Michelle G.
