Biosocial Factors in Rehabilitation for Schizophrenia

Project Summary:
This study aims to increase the effectiveness of community mental health rehabilitation by quickly moving research findings into active care settings.

Project Description:
Recent literature has identified a serious gap between what is known from university-based clinical research about mental disorders and their treatment and what services actually are provided in community settings. This study will team university clinical researchers, practitioners and consumers from a psychosocial rehabilitation service agency with the goal of building a shared research infrastructure, disseminating evidence-based practices into agency settings and assessing their effectiveness, as well as expediting "research to practice" efforts by providing study discoveries to consumers and service providers administering programs in typical community rehabilitation settings.

Project Investigator(s):
John Brekke

Research Period: 09/01/05 - 05/31/10

Funding Source: National Institute of Mental Health

Total Award Amount: $ 2,704,413

Key Personnel: Robert Kern, (Co-PI), associate research psychologist, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute; Jana Plasters, (Co-PI), clinical director, Portals; Laura Pancake, (Co-PI), Portals.