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| November 22, 2009 | HOME BACK SEARCH UH |
| CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM |
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Gordon L. Paul, Ph.D., Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director Justin Springer, Ph.D., Sarah Garnaat, M.A., J. Leigh Noblin, M.A. and Alicia Pardee, B.A. -- Local Program Members The Clinical Research Program is focused on understanding and ameliorating problems of people with psychoses and other severe and chronic mental disorders as well as improving the mental health systems that serve them. More than 35 years of research and development with collaborators in several states have resulted in evidenced-based psychosocial procedures that provide effective and cost-efficient treatment and integrated aftercare to hospitalized mental patients who were previously thought to be untreatable. In addition, the Clinical Research Program has developed and thoroughly evaluated a comprehensive approach to assessment and monitoring of patient, staff, and program functioning in residential and inpatient treatment settings. Both the treatment program and the comprehensive computerized assessment/information system have been prominently featured in Catalog of Clinical Training Opportunities: Best Practices for Recovery and Improved Outcomes for People with Serious Mental Illness (2007) by the APA/CAPP Task Force on Serious Mental Illness and Severe Emotional Disturbance (http://www.apa.org/practice/grid.html). Materials are currently being developed to aid implementation of the treatment program and assessment system. Opportunities exist for consulting with mental health agencies to help them provide evidence-based assessment and treatment to those individuals most in need of such services. Selected Publications: Coleman, J. C., & Paul, G. L. (2001). Relationship between staffing ratios and effectiveness of inpatient psychiatric units. Psychiatric Services, 52, 1374-1379. Coleman, J. C., Paul, G. L., & Schatschneider, C. (2007). Impact of staff attention on predicting post-discharge community tenure of psychiatric inpatients. Psychological Services, 4, 306-315. Hall, S. L., Paul, G. L., Wilson, K. P., & Garnaat (2009). How do on-the-floor staffing levels relate to attention received by public psychiatric hospital residents? Manuscript in preparation. Hall, S.L., Paul, G.L., Newbill, W.A., & Menditto, A.A. (2009). Aggressive behavior and setting structure within treatment programs at a forensic psychiatric hospital. Manuscript in preparation. Kline, M. L., & Paul, G. L. (2009). Prediction of irregular discharge from adult psychiatric facilities by patient characteristics: The influence of treatment approach. Manuscript in preparation. Lindsey, K. P., Paul, G. L., & Mariotto, M. J. (2009). Urban psychiatric commitments: Outcomes for black and white recent admissions. Manuscript in preparation. Mariotto, M. J., Paul, G. L., & Licht M. H. (2002). Assessment in inpatient and residential settings. In J. N. Butcher (Ed.). Clinical personality assessment: Practical approaches. 2nd Ed., 466-490. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Menditto, A. A., Paul, G. L., Mariotto, M. J., Licht, M. H., & Springer, J. R. (2009). Treatment-unit effectiveness as a function of actual staff-resident interaction patterns. Manuscript in preparation. Newbill, W. A., Paul, G. L., Menditto, A. A., Mehta, P., & Springer, J. R. (2009). The course of individual change among psychiatric inpatients in response to treatment within a social-learning program. Manuscript in preparation. Paul, G. L. (2000). Evidence-based practices in inpatient and residential facilities. The Clinical Psychologist, 53, (3), 3-11. Salinas, J. A., Paul, G. L., & Newbill, W. A. (2002). Is paranoid status a positive prognostic indicator? It depends. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 1029-1039. Salinas, J. A., Paul, G. L., & Springer, J. R. (2008). Consensus judgments of discharge readiness based on paranoid behavior: To what are clinical staff responding? Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 5, 380-386. Springer, J. R., & Paul, G. L. (2007). Predicting time-to-independent-release from current level of functioning for psychiatric inpatients: A "survivor" analysis. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 10, 1-26. Wilson, K. P., & Paul, G. L. (2009) Does the Ward Atmosphere Scale differentiate comparitive effectiveness of adult inpatient psychiatric units? Manuscript in preparation. |
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