National Institute 

of Mental Health

FACT SHEET

National Institute of Mental Health 

Office of Communications 

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Web site: http://www.nimh.nih.gov

June 2003 

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 

develops and provides research information 

that will help people with mental illness get the 

best possible care. Mental health services 

research integrates research, practice, and 

policy to improve treatment and services for 

people with mental illness. Grounded in “realworld” settings, it looks at patients, providers, 

managed care, and state mental health 

systems. New knowledge gained through 

research leads to improved public mental 

health in meaningful and measurable ways. 

Health services research examines the 

effects of social factors, financing systems, 

organizational procedures, health technologies, 

and personal behaviors on quality, cost, and 

access to health care, and ultimately, our 

health and well-being. Research involves 

individuals, families, organizations, 

institutions, communities, and populations. It 

may encompass academic institutions, large 

state-wide service systems, and methods of 

“front-line” clinical care. 

Mental health services research looks at 

how traits of individuals, their families, and 

social and cultural environments affect 

whether, where, and when people will seek 

care, the types of care chosen or provided, 

what happens during care, and outcomes. 

Social, cultural, and psychological 

characteristics of providers and their 

interaction with patients are also considered. 

Services research takes into account the 

economic, social, political, and cultural 

environments in which services are 

delivered. This information affects the 

organization, financing, management, 

An NIMH Snapshot 

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 

27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 

the Federal Government’s principal biomedical and 

behavioral research agency. NIH is part of the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human Services. The FY 2003

budget for NIMH is approximately $1.3 billion. 

NIMH Mission 

The NIMH mission is to reduce the burden of mental 

illness and behavioral disorders through research on 

mind, brain, and behavior. This public health mandate 

demands that we harness powerful scientific tools to 

achieve better understanding, treatment, and eventually, 

prevention of these disabling conditions that affect 

millions of Americans. 

To fulfill its mission, the Institute: 

■ conducts research on mental disorders and the 

underlying basic science of brain and behavior; 

■ supports research on these topics at universities and 

hospitals around the United States; 

■ collects, analyzes, and disseminates information on the 

causes, occurrence, and treatment of mental illnesses; 

■ supports the training of more than 1,000 scientists to 

carry out basic and clinical research; and 

■ communicates information to scientists, the public, the 

news media, and primary care and mental health 

professionals about mental illnesses, the brain, mental 

health, and research in these areas.

Mental Health

Services

Research
delivery, and access to services, as well as the 

course, cost, and outcomes of care.

 Translating scientific breakthroughs 

into policies and procedures of clinical 

practice is an urgent, essential, and 

achievable task. A report by the NIMH 

National Advisory Mental Health Council, 

Bridging Science and Service, established that 

the Institute’s research must be useful and 

practical for people with mental illnesses, 

clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers. The 

report recommended that NIMH expand 

efficacy, effectiveness, practice, and systems 

research in order to foster research across 

fields and speed the dissemination of 

important findings.1

The NIMH Services Research 

Program

NIMH services research is housed primarily in 

the Division of Services and Intervention 

Research.2

 Research addresses services for the 

seriously mentally ill; the effectiveness of 

public, private, and community-based care; 

the economics and financing of mental health 

services, such as the impact of insurance 

design and the costs and benefits of delivery 

systems; care quality that examines treatment 

guidelines and outcomes; research methods; 

training; and the social and cultural contexts 

of mental health care treatment, acceptance, 

and delivery. 

With some 280 grants in the portfolio, 

ten of the programs include research centers 

and training grants. Given the breadth of 

services research, the Division of Mental 

Disorders, Behavioral Research, and AIDS 

(DMDBA) also supports studies. The Center for 

Mental Health Research on AIDS services 

portfolio has relevant programs in 

adherence, stigma, and health behavior 

spread throughout various branches. Services 

research ranges from population-specific 

initiatives involving childhood and 

adolescence, primary care, HIV and AIDS, 

financing, and rural research to primary 

care, dissemination, and implementation 

studies to improve clinical practice. 

Examining managed care systems 

and access barriers to treatment is part of 

the mental health services research agenda. 

Studying financing among employers, 

insurers, and patients can affect whether 

treatments for illnesses are available, who 

receives them, and the costs and quality of 

care. Sixty NIMH studies contributed to the 

research base for evaluating mental health 

parity. 

Breadth of NIMH Services Research

■ Child & Adolescent 

■ Primary Care 

■ Quality of Care & Outcomes 

■ Financing & Managed Care 

■ Systems Research 

■ Sociocultural 

■ Research Methods 

■ Clinical Epidemiology 

■ Dissemination Research 

■ Disablement & Functioning 

Interventions That Work

Many who are discharged from psychiatric 

inpatient facilities need assistance in 

community settings. Continued medication, 

rehabilitation and vocational assistance, 

and social support are of critical importance 

to help ensure successful treatment. Services 

should be flexible and adaptable to needs, 

preferences, and expectations. 

For more than two decades, 

researchers have been working to develop 

and refine models that will provide the care 

people need, but not rob them of self-
determination. One successful model, the 

Program for Assertive Community Treatment 

(PACT), was designed to engage the client and 

provide services in client-based settings with 

multidisciplinary teams and individual care 

plans. 

Assertive community treatment (ACT) 

assists people most seriously disabled by their 

mental illness—whether schizophrenia, 

bipolar disorder, or depression, with or 

without co-occurring substance abuse—and 

are most at risk for rehospitalization. The 

treatment method was devised to provide 

support for people with limited problemsolving skills whose symptoms worsen 

rapidly when they are under stress. 

Those receiving ACT services have 

fewer days in the hospital; for people with a 

history of chronic hospitalization, ACT is also 

cost effective. Some studies show gains in 

quality of life and function. As a result of that 

evidence, the director of the Health Care 

Financing Administration, renamed the 

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 

advised state Medicaid directors to support 

assertive community treatment programs of 

the Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research 

Team (PORT) funded by NIMH and the Agency 

for Health Care Policy and Research. 

Care for people with severe mental 

disorders in community settings will continue 

to be a challenge for those providing care or 

organizing systems that respond to need. The 

research investment in PACT and other 

community-based approaches has produced 

knowledge on setting up programs that can 

reduce hospitalization and address the needs 

of clients living in the community. 

Infrastructure Development

The initiatives are setting standards for 

scientific rigor and relevance. A new grant is 

focusing on infrastructure development in 

“real-world” settings with a training 

program to facilitate collaborative clinical 

research and team building among 

clinicians and investigators. 

A family services agency in New York 

City is partnering with 16 clinical sites and 

an academic institution to improve mental 

health care and study important research 

questions on child trauma and 

posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). An 

infrastructure will be created to conduct 

studies of trauma screening and treatment 

and to evaluate the system’s ability to 

support the collaborative research. The 

project will assess screening methods for 

childhood victimization/trauma history in a 

large clinical service delivery system and 

compare the efficacy of treatment for 

children and youths with PTSD to usual care 

in a complex clinical service delivery 

system.3

Another grant aims to develop a 

sustainable mental health research 

infrastructure to support clinical trials and 

effectiveness studies on the detection, 

diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of 

mental disorders in incarcerated adults. The 

Center for Correctional Mental Health 

Services Research is a collaboration between 

the State of Connecticut Department of 

Correction, Correctional Managed Health 

Care, and the University of Connecticut 

Health Center. The initial research project 

will examine the effectiveness of a validated 

treatment approach, the Texas 

Implementation of Medication Algorithm 

(TIMA), when it is modified and applied in a 

correctional setting. TIMA is an evidence-
based protocol for diagnosis, clinical case 

management, and psychoeducation. Bipolar 

disorder was selected as the target illness 

because of its prevalence and adverse impact 

on clinical and behavioral management in 

correctional settings, as well as on 

readjustment and recidivism after reentry in 

the community.4

Now-or-Never Research

Another type of grant encourages research to 

take place in “real time,” in other words, not 

coinciding with the normal NIH grant cycle. It 

enables researchers to take advantage of nowor-never opportunities. If someone is going to 

make a major change in a health care system 

on July 1, for example, researchers have an 

opportunity to study that change and expedite 

a grant submission for the funding cycle. 

A proposed time-sensitive study of 488 

homeless children in 300 families will supply 

important information on how providing 

services and housing for homeless families 

affects the mental health and behavior of 

homeless children over a 15-month period. 

The parent grant, funded by the Substance 

Abuse and Mental Health Services 

Administration, focuses on the outcomes of 

mothers. With funds to supplement this 

clinical trial, researchers will study the 

children, who may be major beneficiaries. 

By working with mothers, 

teachers/caregivers, and the children 

themselves, NIMH researchers suggest that 

interventions may lead to lower levels of 

neighborhood and environmental stressors, 

increased family support, and changes in 

mothers, which in turn result in better 

parenting and services to children. Because of 

this research, the county where the study is 

taking place has agreed to base future 

decisions on organizing services.5

Improved Data on Family 

Intervention Research

Another study is an enhancement of a 

statewide effectiveness trial using a homebased family preservation model for families 

who are at risk for child neglect. Previous 

studies have shown modest behavioral 

changes and reduced maltreatment 

recidivism. The proposed study would 

establish a data collection system for 

existing state-funded home-based service 

agencies serving over 1,200 new families 

annually. Independent data collectors will 

test the importance of intervention and 

collect post-treatment follow-up information 

to evaluate gains.6

A Call for Innovation

A new announcement, “From Intervention 

Development to Services Research,” aims to 

encourage research on developing or pilot 

testing new or adapted interventions; pilot 

testing interventions that demonstrate 

efficacy in broader scale effectiveness trials; 

or on innovative services research requiring 

preliminary testing or development. It 

provides resources to evaluate the 

feasibility, acceptability, and safety of novel 

approaches to improving mental health, 

modifying health risk behavior, and 

obtaining data needed for a larger scale 

intervention or services study.7

In another announcement, NIMH and 

the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 

Services Administration (SAMHSA) are 

partners in supporting evidence-based 

mental health treatment practices in state 

mental health systems. NIMH is funding 
states that determine the most effective ways 

to implement evidence-based practices in state 

clinical practices; SAMHSA aims to provide 

direct support to states and localities 

committed to adopting these practices.8

Partnerships, both within the federal 

government and beyond, are enhancing 

research opportunities in the field. The Center 

for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), 

formerly the Health Care Financing 

Administration, has a large quality 

improvement program using peer review 

organizations. Last year CMS funded two 

projects in mental health. One program is 

looking at improving screening for depression 

and another is studying care for people who 

have just had heart attacks. 

Other grants include:

Helping homeless men transition from 

hospital to the community. 

This controlled study involves a Critical Time 

Intervention (CTI) for men and women with 

severe mental illness during the transition 

from psychiatric hospital to community care. 

The grant’s primary aim is to diminish 

homelessness. Suicidal thinking and 

behavior, violence toward others, and 

psychiatric rehospitalization may also 

decrease. A key aspect of CTI is that staff who 

have established relationships with patients 

during their institutional stay continue to 

work with them during the post-discharge 

phase of the intervention. 

CTI does not replace community 

treatment and supports, but complements 

available services. CTI has demonstrated 

effectiveness with severely mentally ill men 

following discharge from psychiatric care in a 

shelter institution to community care. State 

officials write that if this program is 

successful, they will not only implement it 

in their state, but will also reimburse it.9

The labor force, outreach, and 

treatment for depression. 

With this grant, five large employers will 

screen tens of thousands of people for 

depression. An effectiveness study will 

evaluate the impact of depression outreach 

treatment on work-related behaviors. 

Researchers will make detailed assessments 

of sickness absence, job-related accidents, 

work quantity and quality, relationships, 

and job turnover. Those with the disorder 

will be in a number of intervention 

programs. Cost benefit analysis will 

estimate the net benefit of the program to 

employers. 

Participating companies are American 

Airlines, Delta Airlines, the Massachusetts 

State Employees Association, Northeast 

Utilities, and Raytheon. The program aims 

to show employers that depression 

interventions are investment opportunities 

with positive returns. Regional business 

groups on health and behavioral health 

management consultants will work with 

researchers to create purchaser demand for 

more depression treatment. This rapid and 

widespread dissemination will augment the 

knowledge base of treatment effectiveness 

in an important “real-world” setting.10

Improving Hispanic retention in 

antidepressant therapy. 

A pilot study with depressed, culturally 

traditional Hispanics entering 

antidepressant therapy suggests that 

cultural differences in patients’ and 

psychiatrists’ expectations and concerns 

about treatment produce ambivalence about 

taking medication or following physician 

instructions, which in turn interferes with 

retention. The association between 
ambivalence about treatment and dropout is 

predicted by stages that individuals 

experience during behavioral change, a model 

that has not been empirically tested in 

Hispanics. This study will yield pilot data on 

stages of behavioral change using a brief, 

effective form of psychotherapy that targets 

ambivalence about treatment and on 

enhanced retention of Hispanics in 

antidepressant therapy. 

The goal is a culturally compatible 

intervention for psychiatrists in outpatient 

pharmacological practice to increase 

retention of Hispanics with major depressive 

disorder (MDD). Hispanic dropout from 

medication therapy for MDD is two to three 

times the rate of non-Hispanic whites. Mental 

health treatment in general is lowest among 

less acculturated, migrant Hispanics, even 

after controlling for socio-economic factors 

and psychiatric diagnosis, suggesting that 

cultural factors are causes.11

American Indian and Alaska Native 

mental health research. 

The University of Colorado Health Sciences 

Center has obtained support to continue the 

highest quality research on the mental 

health of these special populations. 

Research program and training opportunities 

address assessment, epidemiology, and 

prevention of psychological dysfunction and 

major mental illness among American 

Indians and Alaska Natives. The program 

aims to carry out interdisciplinary research 

with emphasis on assessing dysfunction and 

major mental illness among children, 

adolescents, and adults; service use among 

the Indian population at large and within 

service settings, as well as gauging 

outcomes of mental health services; the 

development, adaptation, implementation, 

and evaluation of preventive intervention 

programs for children and youth; 

structuring training as an integral part of 

the research program; and disseminating 

results to guide the design, conduct and 

interpretation of future mental health 

services in Alaska Native and American 

Indian communities. The project will assist 

individuals and organizations to plan and 

implement mental health research; continue 

to enhance the growing body of knowledge 

on mental health and mental illness among 

these populations; and serve as a catalyst 

for both programmatic and theoretical 

research.12

Medical practice patterns 

involving children with autism. 

Clinical studies are addressing the safety 

and effectiveness of treatment and 

rehabilitation interventions for children with 

autism or pervasive developmental 

disorders. This multisite study examines the 

structure, utilization, and expenditures for 

the care and treatment of autism. The threeyear study will identify services accessed by 

families with autistic children in different 

age groups. The work will provide 

information to clinical researchers and 

policymakers on which treatments are used, 

by whom, treatment combinations, and 

circumstances under which they apply. 

Research results can inform clinical trials 

and future projects, which may involve 

multiple medical, educational, and 

behavioral treatments, as well as 

complementary and alternative treatments. 

This first grant for the services portfolio in 

autism received funding recently.13

Fostering collaboration between 

mental health and criminal justice. 

This Development Research Centers grant 

explains symptoms and treatment of severe 

mental illness in minor offenders to the 
criminal justice staff. By establishing the 

Mental Health Services and Criminal Justice 

Research Center, the program focuses on 

mental health services issues that arise when 

people with mental illness encounter the 

criminal justice system. A multi-disciplinary 

team will be in a borderless research 

environment that includes researchers and 

sites located around the country. The 

emphasis is on the individual with mental 

illness, how that person comes to the 

attention of the criminal justice (CJ) system, 

and the system’s response to the person’s 

illness as he or she moves from court to 

jail/prison to the community. Understanding 

this dynamic is central to developing 

prevention strategies. Research will address 

identification and evaluation of mental 

illness, its treatment inside the jail and in the 

post release period, and the policy initiatives 

and innovations that impact the CJ system’s 

response to mental illness.14

A business research grant offers a twoday curriculum for professionals working 

with adult offenders with co-occurring 

disorders. It aims to improve mental health 

and substance abuse services both within the 

criminal justice systems and during and after 

community reentry. Addressing the interface 

between substance abuse, mental health and 

criminal justice, the program aims to develop 

ongoing collaborative implementation plans. 

The five modules include: Overview and 

Mapping the System, Screening and 

Assessment, Treatment Issues and Strategies, 

Systems Integration, and Blueprint for Action. 

Cultural competence and the special needs of 

women are included. Case study materials 

include examples appropriate for both 

institutional and community settings.15

Research Goals, Direction

In April 2002 NIMH conducted a workshop 

entitled “Evidence in Mental Health Services 

Research: What Types, How Much, and 

Then What?”16 to stimulate interest in the 

field and funding projects. The conference 

addressed types of evidence needed; 

methods to acquire, rank, and quantify it; 

and how best to broadcast and use the 

evidence we have. Experts from the mental 

health community and related fields 

presented research on mental health policy 

and management, innovations in trials, 

mental disorders and work functioning, 

using sociocultural research, primary care 

interventions, mental health disparities 

among underserved populations, diagnostic 

and service use, cost versus care, and 

attitudes toward stigma. 

A large task facing the field of mental 

health services research is determining the 

best ways to disseminate information on 

effective treatments and services in diverse 

settings to improve care for those with 

mental disorders. The workshop focused on 

the challenge of weaving together research, 

practice, and policy to improve care. It 

established goals to promote interaction 

between practitioners, researchers, 

policymakers, and consumers regarding 

evidence in mental health services research. 

Mental health services research aims to: 

■ present innovative conceptual and 

theoretical models for considering evidence 

and its use in mental health services 

research; 

■ propose alternative methodologies, 

especially from traditionally underutilized 

disciplines, to address the evidence 

questions above; 

■ present research findings from 

successful and unsuccessful attempts to 
move evidence into real world settings; 

■ promote interaction between 

practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and 

consumers regarding research on evidence in 

mental health services research; 

■ link trainees with more seasoned 

researchers; and 

■ promote collaborations between mental 

health services researchers and other less 

utilized research disciplines.17

Senator William Frist, M.D., called for 

an improved NIH framework in an editorial in 

the Journal of the American Medical 

Association.18 “Greater efforts are needed to 

help research discoveries into practice and 

apply them to patients,” he wrote. Senator 

Frist reinforced the services research vision of 

translating scientific knowledge into 

improved public health. Mental health 

services research in communities will 

ultimately benefit medical practice and patient 

care. A broadened NIH framework will 

translate scientific knowledge into practice by 

incorporating advancements, fostering 

partnerships, and increasing quality care for 

people with mental disorders. 

Services research aims to inform the 

provision of consistent quality care across all 

settings for all people who suffer from mental 

disorders and their loved ones, and to 

improve all outcomes, especially functioning 

and reintegration. 

The Broad NIMH Research Program

NIMH supports and conducts a broad-based, 

multidisciplinary program of scientific inquiry 

aimed at improving the diagnosis, prevention, 

and treatment of mental disorders in people of 

all ages. Increasingly the public, as well as 

health care professionals, are recognizing 

these disorders as real and treatable medical 

illnesses of the brain. Still, there is a need for 

more research that examines in greater depth 

the relationships among genetic, behavioral, 

developmental, social, and other factors to 

find the causes of these illnesses. NIMH is 

meeting this need through a series of 

research initiatives. 

■ NIMH Human Genetics Initiative

This project has compiled a large repository 

of clinical information and DNA obtained 

from families affected by schizophrenia, 

bipolar disorder, autism, Alzheimer’s 

disease, and other mental disorders. 

Qualified scientists are given access to these 

data and genetic materials in order to 

characterize the genetic bases of mental 

disorders. See http://www.nimh.nih.gov/ 

research/geneticsinitiative.cfm for more 

information. 

■ Neuroinformatics: Human

Brain Project 

This federal effort is using state-of-the-art 

computer science technologies to organize 

the immense amount of data being 

generated through neuroscience and related 

disciplines, and to make this information 

readily accessible through the World Wide 

Web for simultaneous study by interested 

investigators. Because the scope of the 

Human Brain Project extends to all facets of 

brain and behavioral research and includes 

a range of technology sciences, this 

initiative is sponsored, in a coordinated 

fashion, by fifteen federal organizations 

across four federal agencies: the National 

Institutes of Health, National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration, National Science 

Foundation, and U.S. Department of Energy. 

For additional detailed information see 

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/

neuroinformatics/index.cfm.

■ Prevention Research Initiative 

Prevention research can be broadly 

characterized as seeking to understand the 
development and expression of mental illness 

throughout the course of life so that 

appropriate interventions can be designed and 

applied in order to prevent mental disorders 

and promote mental health. Advances in 

biomedical, behavioral, and cognitive sciences 

led NIMH to formulate a plan, Priorities for 

Prevention Research at NIMH

(

984321.htm), which marries these sciences 

to prevention efforts. Focusing on the 

expansion of prevention research to include 

the prevention of relapse, disability, and cooccurring conditions, the plan provides a 

blueprint for NIMH prevention research in the 

years to come. 

Key Areas of NIMH Research

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publist/

In total, NIMH supports more than 2,000 

research grants and contracts at universities 

and other institutions across the nation and 

overseas. It also conducts basic research and 

clinical studies at its own facilities on the 

National Institutes of Health campus in 

Bethesda, MD, and elsewhere. Key areas of 

NIMH research include: 

■ basic research on behavior, emotion, 

and cognition to provide a knowledge base for 

a better understanding of mental illnesses; 

■ basic sciences, including cellular and 

molecular biology, developmental 

neurobiology, neurochemistry, neurogenetics, 

and neuropharmacology, to provide essential 

information about the anatomical and 

chemical basis of brain function and brain 

disorders; 

■ neuroscience and behavioral aspects of 

acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) 

and behavioral strategies to reduce the spread 

of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); 

■ clinical trials to test interventions to 

treat, prevent, and reduce the frequency of 

mental disorders and their disabling 

consequences; 

■ mental health services research, 

including mental health economics and 

improved methods of services delivery; 

■ co-occurrence among mental 

disorders and with substance abuse and 

other medical conditions, such as 

depression and heart disease; 

■ the prevalence of mental disorders; 

■ risk factors for mental disorders and 

protective factors against them; 

■ suicide, suicidal behavior, risk and 

protective factors, and preventive 

interventions; 

■ differences in mental health and 

mental illness among special populations; 

■ children and adolescents who suffer 

from or who are at risk for serious mental 

disorders and learning disabilities; 

■ aging and mental health, including 

the impact of caregiving; 

■ responses to terrorist acts and major 

traumatic events; and 

■ psychotherapies and 

pharmacotherapies for specific disorders. 

For More Information

The NIMH Office of Communications carries 

out educational activities, such as the Real 

Men, Real Depression campaign 

(http://menanddepression.nimh.nih.gov), 

and publishes and distributes research 

reports, press releases, fact sheets, and 

informational materials intended for 

researchers, health care providers, and the 

general public. All of these materials, and 

this fact sheet, are in the public domain and 

may be copied or reproduced without 

permission from the Institute, although 

citation of NIMH as the source is 

appreciated. Materials may be downloaded 

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References

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National Advisory Mental Health Council. 


Bridging Science and Service: A Report by the 


National Advisory Mental Health Council’s 


Clinical Treatment and Services Research 


Workgroup. NIH Publication No. 99-4353, 


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2

NIMH Division of Services and Intervention 


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index.cfm


3

Chemtob, C. Creating a Collaborative Field 


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Trestman, R. Mental Health Research 


Infrastructure in Corrections. NIMH Grant 


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Samuels, J. The Impact of Family CTI 


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6

Chaffin, M. Effectiveness Trial Project 


SafeCare for Child Neglect. NIMH Grant 


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8

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Herman, D. CTI in the Transition from the 


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Depression in the Labor Force. NIMH Grant 


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11Lewis-Fernandez, R. Improving Hispanic 


Retention in Antidepressant Therapy. NIMH 


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12Manson, S. American Indian and Alaska 


Native Mental Health Research. NIMH Grant 


Number: P01MH042473-17. 


13Morrissey, J. Structure, Use & 


Expenditures for Autism Services. NIMH 


Grant Number: R21MH066143. 


14Wolff, N. Mental Health Services/Criminal 


Justice Research Center. NIMH Grant 


Number: IP20MHD66170-01. 


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for Professionals Working with Adult 


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Disorders. SBIR contract N43MH22055. 


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18Frist, W. Federal Funding for Biomedical 


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