VISN 5 MIRECC Matters Newsletter

Regular features include "From the Director's Desk", conference updates, upcoming events, recognition of investigators' accomplishments, and a welcome to new staff members.

• December 2008
  Highlights: 2008 Advisory Board Meeting; MIRECC Launches Studies at DC VAMC
  
  
• October 2008
  Highlights: Evaluation of the Points Incentive Program: A Contemporary Token Economy Program; What is a Peer Support Technician?; VISN-5 MIRECC Veterans Advisory Panel
  
  
• August 2008
  Highlights: Small Grants Program Update; Screening for Metabolic Side Effects; National Mental Health Conference 2008
  
  
• June 2008
  Highlights: An Integrated Approach to Smoking Cessation in SPMI; MIRECC Small Grants Program Supports WRAP Training; MIRECC Small Grants Program Supports Holistic Health Symposium
  
  
• April 2008
  Highlights: The Family Intervention Team (FIT); USPRA Annual Conference
  
  
• February 2008
  Highlights: Psychosocial Rehabilitation Training Program; MIRECC Evaluation a Success
  
  
• December 2007
  Highlights: Updating the Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) Treatment Recommendations; Does Diabetes Worsen Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia?
  
  
• October 2007
  Highlights: OOOPS, You Did It Again! (A Study Of Error-Related Brain Activity); New Behavioral Health Lab
  
  
• August 2007
  Highlights: CDP-Choline & Galantamine In Schizophrenia: A Sustained Alpha-7 Nicotinic Agonist Strategy; Transforming VHA Mental Health Care: Promoting Recovery and Integrated Care
  
  
• June 2007
  Highlights: Overlooking the Obvious: A Meta-analytic Comparison of Digit Symbol Coding Task and Other Cognitive Measures in Schizophrenia; Psychiatrists and Primary Caring; Psychology Interns Lead Recovery Groups at Baltimore PHP
  
  
• April 2007
  Highlights: MHICM Veterans Expand Their Cultural Horizons; MIRECC In JAMA; Understanding Treatment Study Drop-Out and Retention
  
  
• February 2007
  Highlights: Improving Consent Capacity for Research in Schizophrenia; Perry Point PHP Veterans Volunteer at Local Nursing Home; Does Family Member Provider Outreach Improve the Quality of Care for Persons with Severe Mental Illness?
  
  
• December 2006
  Highlights: The Returning Veterans Outreach, Education And Care Program (RVOEC); New Peer Housing Location Assistance Group (PHLAG); Mental Illness: Pathways To Recovery Conference
  
  
• October 2006
  Highlights: The MHICM Study, and Family Forum: Implementing Family Services for Persons with SMI in the VA: Barriers, Facilitators, and Solutions
  
  
• August 2006
  Highlights: Monthly Clinic for VAMHCS Clinicians; Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy with Trauma Survivors; Cognitive Therapy at Mental Health Recovery Conference; Veterans Lend a Hand
  
  
• April 2006
  Highlights: New VISN 5 MIRECC Administrative Database for Patients with Severe Mental Illness; New PIP Up and Running; and Evaluation of the Peer-to-Peer Program
  
  
• February 2006
  Highlights: Small Grant Program Awards; Social Skills Training the Centerpiece of Health Improvement Program (HIP); VISN 5 MIRECC South by Southwest (DC update)
  
  
• December 2005
  Highlights: HIV Dual Diagnosis Research; Another Successful Family Conference; Learning Through Teleconferencing
  
  
• October 2005
  Highlights: Assessing the Family-to-Family Education Program; Program Evaluation for PTSD Treatment Programs; DVD: “Schizophrenia And Other Mental Illnesses: Involving The Family, Improving Care”
  
  
• August 2005
  Highlights: Taking a Look at Stigma; Small Grants Program for Recovery-Fostering Clinical and Educational Innovations; New Training Series: Treating Dually Diagnosed Veterans in the MHICM Program
  
  
• June 2005
  Highlights: Advisory Board a Success; The Role of Motivation to Change Substance Use in Schizophrenia Patients; National MIRECC Conference highlights; Understanding and Treating PTSD in Women Conference highlights
  
  
• April 2005
  Highlights: MOVE! Weight Management and Physical Activity Intervention for Seriously Mentally Ill Veterans; HIV Infection Among Seriously Mentally Ill Veterans
  
  
• February 2005
  Highlights: New MIRECC Recovery Coordinator; Monthly Family Support and Education Program; New MIRECC website
  
  
• December 2004
  Highlights: VA Special Fellowship Program in Advanced Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry; M-PROVE: The Maryland Program for Vocational Effectiveness; Working with Families of the Mentally Ill conference update
  
  
• October 2004
  Highlights: Two New MIRECCs; New Clinical Core Associate Director; MIRECC Clinical Psychophysiology Lab
  
  
• August 2004
  Highlights: Does a Critical Time Intervention Improve Psychiatric Inpatient-Outpatient Transition Outcomes?; Best Practices in Network Mental Healthcare Systems conference update
  
  
• June 2004
  Highlights: Conference updates
  
  
• April 2004
  Highlights: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training update; The Making of a DVD: "Involving Families: Improving Care for Individuals with Schizophrenia"
  
  
• January 2004
  Highlights: Development of a Computerized Method for Veterans to Enter Clinical Reminder Data; Spotlight: Guvant Thaker, MD
  
  
• October 2003
  Highlights: New Schizophrenia Research Training Program; Suicidality presentation update; Preventative Health Behaviors in Women with SMI
  
  
• June 2003
  Highlights: MIRECC Walks for the Mind of America update; Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders in People with Schizophrenia; Implementing Recovery-Oriented Approaches for Veterans with SMI
  
  
• March 2003
  Highlights: Engaging Dually Diagnosed Vets; The Academic Scaffolding of the Mental Health Service Line; CBT & Me
  
  
• January 2003
  Highlights: Advisory Committee update; IRIS Database; conference update
  
  
• November 2002
  Highlights: Computer Assisted Cognitive Remediation study; Critical Time Intervention for Vets with SMI; Discharging Long-Stay Patients Into the Community: Understanding Our Successes and Failures
  
  
• September 2002
  Highlights: Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders; Risperidone Long-Acting Injection; Generalization of Training in Schizophrenia study
  
  
• July 2002
  Highlights: How Well Do You Know VA Culture?; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Addictions; VISN 5 Prison Initiative
  
  
• April 2002
  Highlights: Conference update; Empirically Based Therapies in Addiction Treatment; Advancing Evidence-Based Prescription of Antipsychotic Medications in the VA
  
  
• February 2002
  Highlights: New Interventions for Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia; What Leads to a Successful Discharge?
  
  
• December 2001
  Highlights: Database Management System; "Virtual Voices"; The Assessment Core
  
  
• October 2001
  Highlights: MIRECC Conferences: Our First Year and Beyond
  
  
• August 2001
  Highlights: Veterans Family Contact Project; Cognitive Remediation Program
  
  
• June 2001
  Highlights: Novel Continuum of Care for SMI Veterans; H. McKee Jarboe Award winners; Stanley Foundation Treatment Trial grant awardees
  
  
• April 2001
  Highlights: Investigator accomplishments; Family Needs Assessment Project
  
  
• February 2001
  Highlights: Points Incentive Program (PIP) at Perry Point VAMC
  
  
• December 2000
  Highlights: MIRECC Dedication ceremony; new Associate Director of Research; MIRECC Research Database
  
  
• October 2000
  Highlights: Protection of Human Research Subjects; Women Veterans Needs Assessment update
  
  
• August 2000
  Highlights: National & state resources; Psychopharmacology and Movement Disorders clinics
  
  
• May 2000
  Highlights: MIRECC mission, structure, & focus
  
  

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