The proposed project is designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between social psychology and mental health services research. The project is unique because it begins not with data collection, but with existing data from a randomized controlled services evaluation that can serve as catalyst for exchanging, explaining, and defending field-specific methods and theoretical perspectives. A work group of leading social psychologists and mental health services researchers will collaborate on the data analysis of an experimental evaluation of two widely disseminated, but very different, models of mental health service, PACT and ICCD Clubhouse. The Massachusetts Employment Intervention Demonstration Project (MA EIDP), funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) from 1995-2000, will provide 4 years of outcome and service data on 162 persons with serious mental illness, with a minimum of two and one-half year follow-up per participant. Social psychologists serving as co-investigators will include Elliot Aronson (UCSC), John Harvey (U of Iowa), and Gifford Weary (Ohio State). Psychiatric service researchers will include William Hargreaves (UCSF Medical School), Leonard Bickman (Vanderbilt), and Courtenay Harding (Boston U). Consultation in forensics, managed care issues, cultural and gender issues, and statistics will be provided by William Fisher (Umass Medical School), Paul Barreira (McLean Hospital, Harvard), Paulette Hines (UMDNJ), Nydia Garcia-Preto (Rutgers), and Patrick Shrout (NYU). An ethnographer with expertise in cross-discipline research Tanya Luhrmann (U of Chicago) will provide a qualitative evaluation of research collaboration. The primary communication modality will be a computer listserv, an electronic discussion group accessed via the internet. The research team will respond individually to these postings and to one another's comments. The project will produce joint publications of findings, theoretical causal models of service delivery, and collaborative proposals for testing these models in future research. An interactive Advisory Council, composed of leading vocational service researchers, consumers, family members, state officials, and service model representatives will provide consultation and collaboration on method, policy, and practice issues.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
1R01MH062628-01A1
Application #
6382616
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZMH1-SRV-C (01))
Program Officer
Hohmann, Ann A
Project Start
2001-09-21
Project End
2002-08-31
Budget Start
2001-09-21
Budget End
2002-08-31
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
2001
Total Cost
$291,000
Indirect Cost
Name
Fountain House
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10036
Gold, Paul B; Macias, Cathaleene; Rodican, Charles F (2016) Does Competitive Work Improve Quality of Life for Adults with Severe Mental Illness? Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Supported Employment. J Behav Health Serv Res 43:155-71
Gold, Paul B; Jones, Danson R; Macias, Cathaleene et al. (2012) A four-year retrospective study of Assertive Community Treatment: change to more frequent, briefer client contact. Bull Menninger Clin 76:314-28
Gold, Paul B; Macias, Cathaleene; Barreira, Paul J et al. (2010) Viability of using employment rates from randomized trials as benchmarks for supported employment program performance. Adm Policy Ment Health 37:427-32
Macias, Cathaleene; Gold, Paul B; Hargreaves, William A et al. (2009) Preference in random assignment: implications for the interpretation of randomized trials. Adm Policy Ment Health 36:331-42
Macias, Cathaleene; Aronson, Elliot; Hargreaves, William et al. (2009) Transforming Dissatisfaction with Services into Self-Determination: A Social Psychological Perspective on Community Program Effectiveness. J Appl Soc Psychol 39:1835-1859
Jones, Danson; Macias, Rosemarie Lillianne; Gold, Paul B et al. (2008) WHEN PARENTS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS LOSE CONTACT WITH THEIR CHILDREN: ARE PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS OR SUBSTANCE USE TO BLAME? J Loss Trauma 13:261-287
Macias, Cathaleene; Jones, Danson R; Hargreaves, William A et al. (2008) When programs benefit some people more than others: tests of differential service effectiveness. Adm Policy Ment Health 35:283-94
Macias, Cathaleene; Aronson, Elliot; Barreira, Paul J et al. (2007) Integrating peer providers into traditional service settings: the Jigsaw strategy in action. Adm Policy Ment Health 34:494-6
Macias, Cathaleene; Rodican, Charles F; Hargreaves, William A et al. (2006) Supported employment outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of ACT and clubhouse models. Psychiatr Serv 57:1406-15
Macias, Cathaleene; Barreira, Paul; Hargreaves, William et al. (2005) Impact of referral source and study applicants' preference for randomly assigned service on research enrollment, service engagement, and evaluative outcomes. Am J Psychiatry 162:781-7

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