A5032397947- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Community Health and Development
Valparaiso University
2022
University of Valparaíso
2022
Columbia University
2014-2021
Unexpected death of a loved one was associated with heightened vulnerability for virtually all commonly occurring psychiatric disorders, including depression, PTSD, manic episodes, phobias, panic disorder, and substance use disorders in the first population-based studies to examine these relations across lifespan.
Several Latin American countries have made remarkable strides towards offering community mental health care for people with psychoses. Nonetheless, clinics generally a very limited outreach in the community, tending to weaker links primary care; rarely engaging patients providing and usually not recovery-oriented services. This paper describes pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Critical Time Intervention-Task Shifting (CTI-TS) aimed at addressing such limitations. The RCT was...
This pilot randomized controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness of critical time intervention-task shifting (CTI-TS) for people with psychosis in Santiago, Chile, and Rio de Janeiro. CTI-TS is a 9-month intervention involving peer support workers designed to maintain treatment effects up 18 months.A total 110 were recruited when they enrolled community mental health clinics (Santiago, N=60; Janeiro, N=50). Participants within each city randomly assigned either or usual care 9 months....
Background: Latin America, and Chile in particular, has a rich tradition of community mental health services programs. However, vivo community-based psychosocial interventions, especially those with recovery-oriented approach, remain scarce the region. Between 2014 2015, Critical Time Intervention-Task Shifting project (CTI-TS) was implemented Santiago, Chile, as part larger pilot randomized control trial. CTI is time-limited intervention delivered at critical-time to users, organized by...
Lower and middle income countries (LMICs) are home to >80% of the global population, but mental health researchers LMIC investigator led publications concentrated in 10% LMICs. Increasing research outputs, such as form peer reviewed publications, require increased capacity building (CB) opportunities The National Institute Mental Health (NIMH) initiative, Collaborative Hubs for International Research on reaches across five regional 'hubs' established LMICs, provide training support emerging...
The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and initial accomplishments a training program young leaders in community mental health research as part Latin American initiative known RedeAmericas. RedeAmericas was one five regional 'Hubs' funded by National Institute Mental Health (NIMH) improve care build capacity low- middle-income countries. It included investigators six cities - Santiago, Chile; Medellín, Colombia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Córdoba, Neuquén, Buenos Aires...