Steven P. Segal is professor of the graduate school at the School of Social Welfare. His research interests include mental health and social policy, research methods, adult residential care, self-help mental health services, violence and mental illness, community mental health, homelessness, social work practice, psychiatric epidemiology, social support systems, social ecology, health policy and psychiatric emergencies.
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Awards / Honors
2014 Senior Fulbright Specialist Status
2012 Distinguished Alumni Award, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2010 Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
2009 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University, Australia
2008 Awarded Lifetime Status, American Psychological Association
2006 Outstanding Practice Research Award, 5th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health (December 10-14, 2006; Hong Kong).
2003 Named among the best researchers in Social Work in June, 2003 survey reported in the Journal of Social Work Research.
2003 Hunter College Hall of Fame, Elected Member Hunter College of the City University of New York.
2003 Distinguished Achievement Award, Society for Social Work and Research.
2002 Distinguished Investigator Award, National Association for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.
1998-99 Senior Research and Lecture Fulbright Award Australia.
1995 Service Learning Award, University of California Berkeley.
1988-89 Harris Trust Award.
1987 Medal of Brescia, Italy, for presentation of Comparative International Research on Italian, United States, and British Mental Health Systems.
Expanded Publications
Copies of most articles are available on request from spsegal@berkeley.edu.
Segal, S. (2024). The Utility of Outpatient Civil Commitment. SMI Adviser. https://education.smiadviser.org/url/product/S6242802
Segal SP. (2023). Home First: Stability and Opportunity in Out-of-Home Care. Psych 2023, 5(1), 148-193 https://doi.org/10.3390/psych5010014
https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8611/5/1/14
Segal SP, Rimes L, Badran L (13 January 2023). Mortality-Risk With “CAPACITY” Constraints on Community Treatment Order Utilization. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 2023: 4(1), sgac077, https://doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgac077
Segal SP, Rimes L, Badran L (2023). Need for Treatment, A Less Restrictive Alternative to Hospitalization, and Treatment Provision: The Utility of Community Treatment Orders. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open. 4(1), January 2023, sgac071. https://doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgac071 PMC9894024 PMID: 36756191
Segal SP, Badran L, Rimes L. (2022). Accessing acute medical care to protect health: the utility of community treatment orders. General Psychiatry Online 2022-12-16;35:e100858. doi:10.1136/ gpsych-2022-100858 PMC9764604 PMID: 36654668 https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/gpsych/35/6/e100858.full.pdf
Rizkalla N, Bakr O, Alsamman S, Sbini S, Masud H, Segal SP (2022). The Syrian regime’s apparatus for systemic torture: A qualitative narrative study of testimonies from survivors. BMC Psychiatry. DOI10.1186/s12888-022-04425-w Online 2022-12-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04425-w https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12888-022-04425-w.pdf.
Segal, SP (2022) Protecting health and safety with needed-treatment: The effectiveness of outpatient commitment. Psychiatric Quarterly 93(1):55-79, Epub 2021 Jan 6. DOI:10.1007/s11126-020-09876-6 PMC8257759 PMID: 33404994 NIHMS1661410
Segal, SP (2021) Deinstitutionalization in Macro Practice. (2021). Encyclopedia of Social Work in Macro Practice. Co- published by the NASW Press and Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.1579. Published online: 22 Dec. 2021
Segal, SP (2021) Deinstitutionalization, 2021. Encyclopedia of Social Work. 21th Edition. Co- published by the NASW Press and Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.101.
Segal, SP (2021). Hospital utilization outcomes following assignment to outpatient commitment. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. September (2021) Volume 48(5), 942-961 #APMH-D-20-00248R1. DOI: 10.1007/s10488-021-01112-y PMC8329100 PMID: 33404994 NIHMS1677638
Segal, SP (2021). Protecting health and safety with needed-treatment: The effectiveness of outpatient commitment. Psychiatric Quarterly 93(1): 55-79. DOI:10.1007/s11126-020-09876-6 PMC8329100 PMID: 33404994 NIHMS1661410
Segal, SP (2020) Different patient group responses to community treatment orders suggest alternative approaches. Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education, 23(2): 61-71. PMC8136251 PMID: 34025111 NIHMS1685098. http://www.profdevjournal.org/articles/232061.pdf
Niveen Rizkalla R, Mallat NK, Arafa P, Adi S, Soudi L, Segal SP (2020). Children Are Not Children Anymore; They Are a Lost Generation”: Adverse Physical and Mental Health Consequences on Syrian Refugee Children. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8378. doi:10.3390/ijerph17228378 PMC7696198 PMID: 33198333
Segal SP, Khoury VC, Salah R, Ghannam J (2020)Unattended Mental Health Needs in Primary Care: Lebanon’s Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp. Clinical Medicine Insights: Psychiatry, 11: pp 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1177/1179557320962523
Rizkalla N, Segal SP (2020). Refugee trauma work: Effects on intimate relationships and vicarious posttraumatic growth. Journal of Affective Disorders.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.07.054 PMID: 32738669
Segal SP (2020). The utility of outpatient commitment: investigating the evidence.International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 70, 101565, 1-24
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2020.101565 PMC7394121 PMID: 32482302 NIHMS1597304
Rizkalla N, Arafa R, Mallat NK, Soudic L, Adid S, .Segal SP (2019). Women in refuge: Syrian women voicing health sequelae due to war traumatic experiences and displacement challenges. Journal ofPsychosomatic Research, Available online 24 December 2019, 109909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2019.109909
Rizkalla N, Segal SP (2019). Trauma during humanitarian work: the effects on intimacy, wellbeing and PTSD-symptoms, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10:1, 1679065. DOI: 10.1080/20008198.2019.1679065 PMC6818129 PMID: 31692832
Rizkalla N, Segal SP(2019). War can harm intimacy: Consequences for refugees who escaped Syria. Journal of Global Health. December 2019 9(2)
doi: 10.7189/jogh.09.020407 PMC6642814 PMID: 31360447
Segal SP, Hayes SL, Rimes L (2019). The utility of outpatient commitment: Reduced-risks of victimization and crime perpetration. European Psychiatry. 56, 97–104. DOI:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2018.12.001 PMC7202380 PMID: 30654319 NIHMS1582452
Segal SP, Hayes SL, Rimes L (2018). The utility of outpatient commitment: acute medical care access and protecting health. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology53(6), 597-606. DOI: 10.1007/s00127-018-1510-5\ PMC7336898 PMID: 29626237 NIHMS1593354
Rizkalla N, Segal SP (2018). Wellbeing and Growth among Syrian Refugees in Jordan. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31(2):213-222. doi: 10.1002/jts.22281. Epub 2018 Mar 31 PMID: 29604123
Segal SP, Khoury VC, Salah R, Ghannam J. (2018). Contributors to Screening Positive for Mental Illness in Lebanon's Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 2018 Jan; 206(1):46-51. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000751. PMID: 28976407
Rizkalla N, Zeevi-Barkay M, Segal SP (2017). Rape Crisis Counseling: Trauma Contagion and Supervision. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-24. doi:10.1177/0886260517736877 PMID: 29294964
Segal SP (2017). Assessment of outpatient commitment in randomised trials. Lancet-Psychiatry. 4(12): e26 - e28. doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30286-9 PMID: 29179938
Segal SP, Hayes SL, Rimes L (2017). The utility of outpatient commitment: I. A need for treatment and a least restrictive alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. (APPI-PS-2016-00161.R5) Psychiatric Services. 68(12): 1247-1254. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201600161 PMC7138506 PMID: 28760100 NIHMS1553563
Segal SP, Hayes SL, Rimes L (2017). The utility of outpatient commitment: II. Mortality risk, protecting health, safety, and quality of life (APPI-PS-2016-00164.R5) Psychiatric Services. 68(12): 1255–1261. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201600164 PMC7213026 PMID: 28760099 NIHMS1582450. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7213026/
Segal, SP and Franskoviak, P (2017). Denial of access to individuals seeking inpatient care: disposition determinants and 12 month outcomes. Journal of Forensic Sciences & Criminal Investigation. 2017; 2(4): 555592. DOI: 10.19080/JFSCI.2017.02.555592. PMC7434094 PMID: 32832845 NIHMS1595741 https://juniperpublishers.com/jfsci/pdf/JFSCI.MS.ID.555592.pdf https://juniperpublishers.com/jfsci/Current%20Issue-jfsci.php
Namkee G, Choi NG, DiNitto DM, Nathan Marti CN, Segal SP (2017). Adverse childhood experiences and suicide attempts among those with mental and substance use disorders. Child Abuse & Neglect. 69 (2017) 252–262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.04.024 PMID: 28500922
Segal SP (2017). Looking for continuity of care. Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 32(3):187-188, DOI: 10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000246 PMID: 28212165.
Hayes SL, Segal SP (2016). Fear of adverse mental health treatment experiences: initial psychometric properties of a brief self-report measure. Psychological Assessment, 2016 Jul 21. DOI: 10.1037/pas0000362 PMID: 27442625. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27442625
Segal SP, Hayes S (2016). Consumer-run services research and implications for mental health care. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 25(5): 410-416
doi:10.1017/S2045796016000287 PMC7048404 PMID: 27118346 NIHMS1553545
Portacolone E, Segal SP, Mezzina R, Scheper-Hughes N, Okin RL (2015). A Tale of Two Cities: The Exploration of the Trieste Public Psychiatry Model in San Francisco. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2015 Dec;39(4):680-97. doi: 10.1007/s11013-015-9458-3 PMID: 25998781
Segal SP (2015). Both Section 17s and CTOs are clinical mechanisms testing treatment stability on hospital release. Letter in response to Dr Segal's commentary on Tom Burns OCTET. Evidenced Based Mental Health 2013;16:4 117. doi:10.1136/eb-2013-101579 PMID: 24104556
Kisely S, Preston N, Xiao A, Lawrence D, Louise S, Crowe E (2014). Segal S. An eleven-year evaluation of the effect of community treatment orders on changes in mental health service use. Journal of Psychiatric Research 47(5):650-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.01.010. PMID: 23415453
Moore M, Winkelman A, Kwong S, Segal SP, Manley GT, Shumway M (2014). The emergency department social work intervention for mild traumatic brain injury.Brain Injury28(4):448-55. doi: 10.3109/02699052.2014.890746. Epub 2014 Apr 4.
Segal SP (2014). Commentary to community treatment orders do not reduce hospital readmission in people with psychosis. Evidenced-Based Mental Health 2013; 16: 116. DOI:10.1136/eb-2013-101438
Segal, SP (2013). Involuntary care and mandated settings. Encyclopedia of Social Work. 21th Edition. Co-published by the NASW Press and Oxford University Press.
Segal SP, Jacobs L (2013). Deinstitutionalization. Encyclopedia of Social Work. 21th Edition. Co-published by the NASW Press and Oxford University Press. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leah-Jacobs-3/publication/273576079...
Segal SP. (2013). Self-Help Groups and Organizations. Encyclopedia of Social Work. 21th Edition. Co-published by the NASW Press and Oxford University Press.
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T (2013) Self stigma in consumer-operated and community mental health services: Two randomized controlled trials. Psychiatric Services. 64(10): 990-996. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201200490 PMC7100964 PMID: 23771604 NIHMS1553556
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T. (2013) Are All Consumer-Operated Programs Empowering Self-Help Agencies? Social Work in Mental Health, 11(1), 1-15.
doi: 10.1080/15332985.2012.718731 PMC7486029 PMID: 32922215 NIHMS1623840
Segal, SP. (2012) Civil Commitment Law, Mental Health Services, and U.S. Homicide Rates. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 47:1449–1458
doi: 10.1007/s00127-011-0450-0 PMC7336875 PMID: 22072224 NIHMS1600730
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T (2011) Outcomes from Consumer-operated and community mental health services: A randomized controlled trial. Psychiatric Services. 62(8), 915-921. DOI: 10.1176/ps.62.8.pss6208_0915 PMC7012386 PMID: 21807831 NIHMS1553571
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T. (2010). Self-help and community mental health agency outcomes: A recovery-focused randomized trial. Psychiatric Services. 61(9), 905-910. doi: 10.1176/ps.2010.61.9.905 PMC7518881 PMID: 20810589 NIHMS1623841
Segal, S. P., & Burgess, P. (2009) Preventing psychiatric hospitalization and involuntary outpatient commitment. Social Work in Health Care. 48(3), 232-242.
doi: 10.1080/00981380802605567 PMC7797203 PMID: 19360528 NIHMS1657889
Segal SP, Preston N, Kisely S, and Xiao J (2009) Conditional release in Western Australia: effect on hospital length of stay. Psychiatric Services, 60(12), 94-99.
doi: 10.1176/ps.2009.60.1.94 PMC7609020 PMID: 19114577 NIHMS1639898
Segal SP, Burgess PM (2008) Use of community treatment orders to prevent psychiatric hospitalization. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 42:733-740. doi: 10.1080/00048670802206312 PMC7690455 PMID: 18622781 NIHMS1639894
Segal, S.P. (2008) Deinstitutionalization. Encyclopedia of Social Work. 20th Edition. Co-published by the NASW Press and Oxford University Press. 2: 10-20
Segal, S. P. (2008) Self Help Groups. Encyclopedia of Social Work. 20th Edition. Co-published by the NASW Press and Oxford University Press.
Segal, SP and Tauber, A.I. (2007) Revisiting Hume’s Law. American Journal of Bioethics 7(11): 43-45. doi.org/10.1080/15265160701638694
Segal, S. P., & Burgess, P. (2006). Conditional hospital release: Interpreting the message. Psychiatric Services, 57(12), 1810.
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2006.57.12.1810 PMID: 17158504https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ps.2006.57.12.1810
Segal, S. P., & Burgess, P. (2006). The utility of extended outpatient civil commitment. International Journal of Law and Mental Health, 29(6), 525-534.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2006.09.001 PMC7735736 PMID: 17070577 NIHMS1639892
Segal, S. P., & Burgess, P. (2006). Factors in the selection of patients for conditional release from their first psychiatric hospitalization. Psychiatric Services, 57, 1614-1622. DOI: 10.1176/ps.2006.57.11.1614 PMC7155892 PMID: 17085610 NIHMS1569733
Segal SP. Burgess P (2006). Effect of conditional release from hospitalization on mortality risk. Psychiatric Services, 57, 1607-1613. DOI: 10.1176/ps.2006.57.11.1607 PMC7075631 PMID: 17085609 NIHMS1569735
Segal SP, Burgess P (2006). Conditional release: A less restrictive alternative to hospitalization? Psychiatric Services, 57, 1600-1606. DOI: 10.1176/ps.2006.57.11.1600 PMC7117616 PMID: 17085608 NIHMS1569731
Segal SP, Burgess P. (2006). Extended outpatient civil commitment and treatment utilization. Social Work in Health Care, 43(2/3), 37-51. ISSN: 0098-1389. doi: 10.1300/J010v43n02_04 PMC7852557 PMID: 16956852 NIHMS1657870
Prince J, Segal SP (2005). An empowering medical model of mental health care. Psychiatric Services, 56(4), 901. https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/epub/10.1176/appi.ps.56.8.901
Barretto R, Segal SP (2005). Use of mental health services by Asian Americans. Psychiatric Services, 56(6), 746-748. doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.746 PMC7333528 PMID: 15939954 NIHMS1600733
Segal SP (2005). Service use by Asian Americans: In Reply. Psychiatric Services, 56(10), 1314. doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.10.1314-ahttps://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/epub/10.1176/appi.ps.56.10.1314-a
Hahm, H., & Segal, S. P. (2005). Failure to seek needed health care among the mentally ill. American Journal of Ortho Psychiatry, 75(1), 54-62. doi: 10.1037/0002-9432.75.1.54 PMC7690558 PMID: 15709850 NIHMS1639900
Theriot, M., & Segal, S. P. (2005). Involvement with the criminal justice system among new clients at outpatient mental health agencies. Psychiatric Services, 56(2), 179-185. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.56.2.179 PMC7486029 PMID: 15703345 NIHMS1623842
Segal, S. P. (2004) Managing transitions and insuring good care. Psychiatric Services, 55(11),1205. DOI:10.1176/appi.ps.55.11.1205. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8186927_Managing_Transitions_an...
Hodges, J. Q., Hardiman, E. R., & Segal, S. P. (2004) Predictors of hope among members of mental health self-help agencies. Social Work in Mental Health, 2(1), 1-16. DOI: 10.1300/J200v02n01_01 PMC7869839 PMID: 33564277
Segal, S. P., Lauri, T., & Franskoviak, P. (2004). Ambivalence of PES patients hospitalization and factors in their disposition. International Journal of Law and Mental Health, 27(1), 87-99. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2003.12.003 PMC7337012 PMID: 15019770 NIHMS1595740
Hardiman, E. R., & Segal, S. P. (2003) Community membership and social networks in mental health self-help agencies. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 27(1): 25-33. doi: 10.2975/27.2003.25.33. PMC7878020 PMID:12967229
Segal, S. P., & Riley, S. (2003). Caring for persons with serious mental illness: Policy & practice suggestions. Social Work and Mental Health, 1(3), 1-17. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.54.5.745-a. PMC7470224 PMID:12719511.
Theriot, M. T., Segal, S. P. & Cowsert, M. J. Jr. (2003). African-Americans and comprehensive service use. Community Mental Health Journal, 29(3), 225-237. doi: 10.1023/a:1023390223253 PMC7699027 PMID:12836804.
Segal, S. P. (2003). Large data sets are powerful. Psychiatric Services, 54(5), 745-746. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.54.5.745-a. PMC7470224 PMID:12719511.
Segal, S. P. (2002) Policy Suggestions and Practice/Research Perspectives on Treatment Objectives and Outcomes. Public Affairs Report 43(1):1-23. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.4191.5764
Segal, S. P., Hodges, J. Q., & Hardiman, E. R. (2002). Factors in the decisions to seek help from self-help and co-located community mental health agencies. American Journal of Ortho Psychiatry, 72(2), 241-249. doi: 10.1037/0002-9432.72.2.241 PMC7690453 PMID: 15792063 NIHMS1647118
Segal, S. P., Watson, M., & Akutsu, P. (2002). Involuntary return to a psychiatric emergency service within twelve months. Social Work in Health Care, 35(1/2), 591-603. doi: 10.1300/J010v35n01_13 PMID:12365760
Segal, S. P., Hardiman, E. R., & Hodges, J. Q. (2002). Characteristics of new clients at self-help and community mental health agencies located in geographic proximity. Psychiatric Services, 53,1145-1152. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.53.9.1145. PMC7852554 PMID: 12221314 NIHMS1657871
Franskoviak, P., & Segal, S. P. (2002). Substance use and mental disorder diagnostic profiles in a sample long-term self-help agency users. American Journal of Ortho Psychiatry, 72(2), 232-240. doi: 10.1037/0002-9432.72.2.241. PMC7575409 PMID:15792063.
Hodges, J. Q., & Segal, S. P. (2002). Goal advancement among mental health self-help agency members. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 26(1), 78-85. doi: 10.2975/26.2002.78.85. PMC7894211 PMID:12171286. NIHMS1657865
Holschuh, J., & Segal, S. P. (2002). Factors related to multiplexity in support networks of persons with severe mental illness. In J. A. Levy and B. A. Pescosolido (Eds.), Social Networks and Health, Vol. 8, Advances in Medical Sociology (pp. 2985-323). Oxford: Elsevier Science. DOI:10.1016/S1057-6290(02)80031-6
Segal, S. P., & Silverman, C. (2002). Determinants of outcomes in mental health self-help agencies. Psychiatric Services, 53(3), 304-309. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.53.3.304 PMC7833670 PMID: 11875224 NIHMS1657864
Segal, S. P., & Deitrich, E. (2001). Quality of care for dual diagnosis patients in psychiatric emergency assessments. American Journal of Ortho Psychiatry, 71(1), 72-78. doi: 10.1037/0002-9432.71.1.72. PMC7725058 PMID:11271719
Segal, S. P. (2001). Effectiveness of involuntary outpatient commitment. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 654-655. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.158.4.654
Segal, S. P., Lauri, T., & Segal, M. J. (2001). Factors in the use of coercive retention in civil commitment evaluations in psychiatric emergency services. Psychiatric Services, 52(4), 514-521. DOI:10.1176/appi.ps.52.4.514 PMC7269008 PMID: 11274499
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Redman, D. (2000). Measuring clients’ satisfaction with self-help agencies. Psychiatric Services, 51(9),1148-1152. DOI:10.1176/appi.ps.51.9.1148 PMC7759341 PMID:10970918 NIHMS1653887
Segal, S. P. (1999). Social work in a managed care environment. International Journal of Social Welfare, 8, 47-55. doi: 10.1111/1468-2397.00061 PMC7643903 PMID: 33162778 NIHMS1636795
Segal, S. P. (1998). The impact of managed care on the practice of psychotherapy, a review. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 25(2), 186-188. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2498&context=...
Segal, S. P., Watson, M., & Akutsu, P. (1998). Factors associated with involuntary return to a psychiatric emergency service within twelve months. Psychiatric Services, 49(9), 1212-1217. DOI: 10.1176/ps.49.9.1212 PMC7321807 PMID: 9735965 NIHMS1585102
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Gomory, T. (1998). Health status of long-term users of self-help agencies. Health and Social Work, 23(1), 45-52. DOI:10.1093/hsw/23.1.45 PMC8232065 PMID:9522203 NIHMS1706935
Segal S. P., Tracy, L., & Silverman, C. (1997). Coping, catastrophic life events and disabling experiences among users of mental health self-help agencies. Psychiatry in Medicine, 27(4), 350- 351. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vt4n3gf
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T. (1997). Social networks and psychological disability and homeless users of SHAs. Social Work in Health Care, 25(3), 49-61 DOI:10.1300/J010v25n03_05 PMC7774868 PMID:9358599
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T. (1997). Program environments of self-help agencies. Journal of Mental Health Administration, 24(4), 456-464. DOI: 10.1007/BF02790506 PMC7797204 PMID: 9364113
Segal, S. P. Egley, L., & Watson, M., & Goldfinger, S. (1997). The quality of psychiatric emergency evaluations. Breakthrough, 1(3), 17-30. PMC9635401 PMID: 36338827
Segal SP (1997). Response to Fuller Torrey. Psychiatric Services, 48(5), 604. https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/epdf/10.1176/ps.48.5.604a
Segal SP, Sawyer D (1996). Sheltered care facility size and the social integration of mentally ill adults. Adult Residential Care, 10(2), 75-87. PMC7434103 PMID: 32831476
Silverman CJ, Segal SP (l996). When neighbors complain: Correlates of neighborhood opposition to sheltered care facilities. Adult Residential Care Journal, 10(2), 137-148. PMC7853654 PMID: 33536701 NIHMS1657887
Segal SP, Silverman C, Temkin T (1996). Self-help mental health programs. Breakthrough, 1(1), 23-34.
Segal SP, Watson M, & Akutsu P (1996). Quality of care and use of less restrictive alternatives in the psychiatric emergency service. Psychiatric Services, 47(6), 623-627. doi: 10.1176/ps.47.6.623 PMC7269009 PMID: 8726490 NIHMS1585093
Hwang SD, Segal SP (1996). Criminality of the mentally ill in sheltered care: Are they more dangerous? International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 19(1), 93-105. doi: 10.1016/0160-2527(95)0 PMC7773135 PMID: 8929663
Segal, S. P., VanderVoort, D. J., & Liese, L. H. (1996). Health and a residential care population. Social Science and Medicine, 42(5), 713-719. DOI:10.1016/0277-9536(95)00196-4 PMC7423193 PMID: 8685739 NIHMS1609685
Segal, S. P., & VanderVoort, D. J. (1996). Differences in daily hassle patterns among California’s seriously mentally ill sheltered residents. Adult Residential Care, 10(1), 54-65. PMC7513960 PMID: 32982046 NIHMS1628648
Segal, S. P., & Choi, J. (1996). Ownership form and quality of care in sheltered care facilities: Chain-affiliated business vs. sole proprietorship. Adult Residential Care, 10(1), 28-37. PMC7434105 PMID: 32831475 NIHMS1609680
Segal, S. P., Bola, J. R., & Watson, M. (1996). Race, quality of care, and antipsychotic prescription practices in the psychiatric emergency service. Psychiatric Services, 47(3), 282-286. doi: 10.1176/ps.47.3.282 PMC7306413 PMID:8820552
Temkin, T., Silverman, C., & Segal, S. P. (1996). Making self-help work. The Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, 6(3), 4-5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303994468_Making_self-help_work
Segal, S. P., Egley, L. Watson, M., Miller, L., & Goldfinger, S. (1995). Factors in the quality of patient evaluations in general hospital psychiatric emergency services. Psychiatric Services, 46(11),1144-1149. doi: 10.1176/ps.46.11.1144. PMC7321804 PMID:8564503. NIHMS1585087
Segal, S. P., Egley, L. Watson, M., Goldfinger, S. (1995). The quality of psychiatric emergency evaluations and patient outcomes in county hospitals. American Journal of Public Health, 85(10), 1429-1431. doi: 10.2105/ajph.85.10.1429 PMC1615605 PMID: 7573631
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T. (1995). Measuring empowerment in client-run self help agencies. Community Mental Health Journal, 31(3), 215-227. doi: 10.1007/bf02188748 PMID:7621659.
Segal, S. P. (1995). Deinstitutionalization. In Encyclopedia of Social Work (19th ed., pp. 704-712). Washington DC: NASW Press.
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T. (1995). Characteristics and service use of long-term members of self-help agencies for mental health clients. Psychiatric Services, 46(3), 269-274. doi: 10.1176/ps.46.3.269. PMC7699826 PMID: 7796216
Silverman, C. J., & Segal, S. P. (l994). Who belongs?: An analysis of ex-mental patient's subjective involvement in the neighborhood. Adult Residential Care Journal, 8(2), 103-113. PMC7544154 PMID: 33041503
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T. (l994). Issues in self -help agency research. Innovations and Research, 3(1), 47-49. PMC7810207 PMID: 33456297 NIHMS1657872
Segal, S. P., & Hwang, S. D. (1994). Licensure of sheltered-care facilities. Social Work, 39(1), 124-131. doi: 10.1093/sw/39.1.124 PMC7511087 PMID: 32973369 NIHMS1628650
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T. (1993). Empowerment and self-help agency practice for people with mental disabilities. Social Work, 38(6), 705-712. PMC7575187 PMID:8256142 NIHMS1632777
Watson, M. A., Segal, S. P., & Newhill, C. E. (1993). Police referral to psychiatric emergency services and its effect on disposition decisions. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 44(11), 1085-1090. doi: 10.1176/ps.44.11.1085 PMC7336889 PMID: 8288179
Segal, S. P., & Silverman, C. (1993). The survival of sheltered care homes: facility and neighborhood contributions. Adult Residential Care Journal, 7(2), 88-103. PMC7447195 PMID: 32848295 NIHMS1610494
Segal, S. P., VanderVoort, D. J., & Liese, L. H. (1993). Residential status and the physical health of a mentally ill population. Health & Social Work, 18(3), 208-214. DOI:10.1093/hsw/18.3.208 PMC7577797 PMID:8406225
Segal, S. P., & VanderVoort, D. J. (1993). Daily hassles of persons with severe mental illness. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 44(3), 276-278. DOI: 10.1176/ps.44.3.276 PMC7797225 PMID: 8444441
Segal, S. P., & VanderVoort, D. J. (1993). Daily hassles and health among persons with severe mental disabilities. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 16(3), 27-40. DOI: 10.1037/h0095677 PMC7720888 PMID: 33293752
Segal, S. P., & Kotler, P. L. (1993). Sheltered-care residence and personal outcomes ten years later. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 63(1), 80-91. DOI:10.1037/h0079409 PMC7394057 PMID:8427315 NIHMS1609652
Segal, S. P., Hines, A. M., & Florian, V. (1992). Early life experiences and residential stability: A ten-year perspective on sheltered care. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 62(4), 535-544. DOI:10.1037/h0079387 PMC7560998 PMID:1443062 NIHMS1632778
Segal, S. P., Cohen, D., & Marder, S. (1992). Neuroleptic medication and prescription practices for mentally ill sheltered care residents. American Journal of Public Health, 82(6), 846-852. doi: 10.2105/ajph.82.6.846 PMC1694183 PMID: 1350181
Segal, S. P., & Ben-Ari, A. (1992). Reductions in services for severely mentally disabled sheltered- care residents: A 12-year perspective. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 16(1), 163-168. doi: 10.1037/h0095721 PMC7561029 PMID: 33071390 NIHMS1632779
Segal, S. P., & Choi, N. G. (1991). Factors affecting SSI support for sheltered care residents with serious mental illness. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 42(11), 1132-1137. doi: 10.1176/ps.42.11.1132 PMID: 1743641
Segal, S. P., & Holschuh, J. (1991). Effects of sheltered care environments and resident characteristics on the development of social networks. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 42(11), 1125-1131. DOI: 10.1176/ps.42.11.1125 PMC7720736 PMID: 1743640
Segal, S. P., & Liese, L. H. (1991). A ten-year perspective on three models of sheltered care. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 42(11), 1120-1124. DOI: 10.1176/ps.42.11.1120 PMC7474966 PMID: 1743639
Segal, S. P., Kotler, P. L., & Holschuh, J. (1991). Attitudes of sheltered care residents toward others with mental illness. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 42(11), 1138-1143. DOI: 10.1176/ps.42.11.1138 PMC7547833 PMID: 1743642
Segal, S. P., & Kotler, P. L. (1991). A ten-year perspective of mortality risk among mentally ill patients in sheltered care. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 42(7), 708-713. DOI: 10.1176/ps.42.7.708 PMC7505209 PMID: 1885180
Segal, S. P. (1991). Civil commitment standard and patient mix in three countries. In K. Graziosi, E. Rebecchi, and V. Spinedi (Eds.), Psichiatria Senza Manicomi (p. 479). Bologna, Italy: Editrice CLUEB Bologna.
Segal, S. P., Hazan, A. R., & Kotler, P. (1990). Characteristics of sheltered-care facility operators in California in 1973 and 1985. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 41(11), 1245-1248. DOI: 10.1176/ps.41.11.1245 PMC7491704 PMID: 2249805
Segal, S. P., Silverman, C. J., & Baumohl, J. (1989). Seeking person-environment fit in community care placement. In W. R. Shadish, A. J., Lurigio, and D. A. Lewis (Eds.), Journal of Social Issues, 45(3), 49-64. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1989.tb01554.x. PMC7486064 PMID: 32921808 NIHMS1626593
Segal, S. P., & Kotler, P. L. (1989). Do we need board and care homes? Adult Residential Care Journal, 3(1), 24-32. PMC7486031 PMID: 32921914 NIHMS1626590
Segal, S. P. (1989). Civil commitment standards and patient mix in England/Wales, Italy, and the United States. American Journal of Psychiatry, 146(2), 187-193.
doi: 10.1176/ajp.146.2.187 PMC7331948 PMID: 2912261 NIHMS1595585
Segal, S. P., Watson, M., Goldfinger, S., & Averbuck, D. (1988). Civil commitment in the psychiatric emergency room: III. Disposition as a function of mental disorder and dangerousness indicators. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 759-763. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1988.01800320075010 PMC7328705 PMID: 3395206 NIHMS159557
Segal, S. P., Watson, M., Goldfinger, S., & Averbuck, D. (1988). Civil commitment in the psychiatric emergency room: II. Mental disorder indicators and three dangerousness criteria. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 753-758. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1988.01800320069009 PMC7336891 PMID: 3395205 NIHMS1595569
Segal, S. P., Watson, M., Goldfinger, S., & Averbuck, D. (1988). Civil commitment in the psychiatric emergency room: I. The assessment of dangerousness by emergency room clinicians. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 748-752. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1988.01800320064008 PMC7325725 PMID: 3395204 NIHMS1595568
Segal, S. P., & Moyles, E. A. (1988). Sheltered care: A typology of residential facilities. Adult Foster Care Journal, 2(2), 118-134. PMC7451254 PMID: 32864661NIHMS1609679
Segal, S. P. (1987). Deinstitutionalization. Encyclopedia of Social Work (18th ed., Vol. 1, pp. 367-382)
Segal, S. P., Watson, M. A., & Nelson, L. S. (1986). Consistency in the application of civil commitment standards in psychiatric emergency rooms. The Journal of Psychiatry and Law, 125-148. doi: 10.1177/0093185386014001-205 PMC7723356 PMID: 33299260 NIHMS1650397
Segal, S. P., Watson, M. A., & Nelson, L. S. (1986). Indexing civil commitment in psychiatric emergency rooms. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 484, 56-69. DOI: 10.1177/0002716286484001005 PMC7723320 PMID: 10276575 NIHMS1638796
Segal, S. P., Watson, M. A., & Nelson, L. S. (1985). Application of involuntary admission criteria in psychiatric emergency rooms. Social Work, 30(2), 160-166. doi: 10.1093/sw/30.2.160 PMC7774823 PMID: 10311093 NIHMS1653783
Segal, S. P., & Baumohl, J. (1985). The community living room. Social Casework, 66(2), 111-116. DOI: 10.1177/104438948506600208 PMC7470223 PMID: 32905488 NIHMS1621064
Segal, S. P., & Kaplan, M. S. (1984). One project and twenty-two reviews. Grants Magazine, 7(4),216-224. PMC7456541 PMID:10271845 NIHMS1621087
Segal, S. P., & Baumohl, J. (1984). Deinstitutionalization. In Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Social Work (17th ed., pp. 19-24). Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers.
Segal, S. P., & Specht, H. (1983). A poorhouse in California, 1983: Oddity or prelude? Social Work, 28(4), 319-323. doi: 10.1093/sw/28.4.319 PMC7853406 PMID: 33536690 PMID: 33536690
Segal, S. P., & Baumohl, J. (1981). Toward harmonious community care placement. In R. Budson (Ed.), Issues in community residential care (pp. 49-61). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Segal, S. P., & Baumohl, J. (1981). The prevention of social deterioration among community care residents. The Journal of Urban Psychiatry, 1(2), 26-30. PMC7531603 PMID: 33012967 NIHMS1628715
Segal, S. P., & Baumohl, J. (1981). Social work practice in community mental health. Social Work,26(1), 16-25. PMC7833691 PMID: 10249850 NIHMS1657831
Segal, S. P. (1980). The impact of recent rehospitalization on community adjustment. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 27(3), 163-172. DOI: 10.1177/002076408102700301 PMC7825744 PMID: 7327865
Segal, S. P. (1980). Community care and human service responsiveness. Journal of the National Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals, 11(5), 18-21. PMC7839652 PMID:10250252 NIHMS1657886
Segal, S. P., & Baumohl, J. (1980). Factors in the receipt of therapeutic assistance in community care. Social Science and Medicine, 14A, 581-587. DOI:10.1016/0160-7979(80)90061-2 PMC7719401 PMID:6259759
Segal, S. P., Chandler, S., & Aviram, U. (1980). Antipsychotic drugs in community-based sheltered-care homes. Social Science and Medicine, 14A, 589-596. doi: 10.1016/0160-7979(80)90062-4 PMC7434100 PMID: 6111128 NIHMS1609229
Segal, S. P., Baumohl, J., & Moyles, E. W. (1980). Neighborhood types and community reaction to the mentally ill: A paradox of intensity. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 24, 345-359. DOI:10.2307/2136411 PMC7423177 PMID:7204928
Segal, S. P., & Baumohl, J. (1980). Engaging the disengaged: Recommendations on madness and vagrancy. Social Work, 25, 358-365. DOI10.1525/sp.1977.24.3.03a00100 PMC7470109 PMID: 32905443 NIHMS1619907
Segal, S. P., & Dille, L. E. (1980). Coping styles and factors in male/female social integration. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 61, 8-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1980.tb00561 PMC7920496 PMID: 7361583
Segal, S. P., & Moyles, E. W. (1979). Management style and institutional dependency in sheltered care. Social Psychiatry, 14, 159-165. DOI:10.1007/BF00577866 PMC7423165 PMID: 32792751 NIHMS1609227
Segal, SP, & Aviram, U. (1979). Reintegrating the mentally ill in the community. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2(4), 499-506. doi: 10.1097/00004356-197912000-00005 PMID: 536070 PMC8281593 NIHMSID: NIHMS1706936.
Segal, SP (1979). Community care and deinstitutionalization: A review. Social Work, 24(6), 521-527. doi: 10.1093/sw/24.6.521 PMC7669462 PMID: 10313883 NIHMS1638793
Segal, SP (1979). Sheltered-care needs. Health and Social Work, 4(2), 42-57. doi: 10.1093/hsw/4.2.41 PMC7581470 PMID:488837 NIHMS1638792
Segal, SP, Dille, LE., & Moyles, E. W. (1979). Congruent perceptions in the evaluation of community-care facilities. Community Psychology, 7, 60-68. DOI:10.1002/1520-6629(197901)7:1<60: PMC7723328 PMID:10240152 NIHMS1638790
Segal, S. P. (1978). Issues in the utilization and evaluation of social work treatment. International Social Work, 21(1), 1-17. DOI: 10.1177/002087287802100103 PMID: 33564197 PMC7869838
Segal, S. P. (1978). Attitudes toward the mentally ill: A review. Social Work, 23(3), 211-217. doi.org/10.1093/sw/23.3.211 PMC7561268 PMID:10297098
Segal, S. P. (1978). Reaction to Segal's literature review: Segal comments. Social Work, 14(6), 436, 516-517.
Segal, SP, Baumohl, J., & Johnson, E. (1977). Falling through the cracks: Mental disorder and social margin in a young vagrant population. Social Problems, 24(3), 387-400. doi.org/10.1525/sp.1977.24.3.03a00100 PMC7485939
Aviram, U., & Segal, S. P. (1977). From hospital to community care: The change in the mental health treatment system in California. Community Mental Health Journal 13(2), 158-167. DOI: 10.1007/BF01410885 PMID: 330094
Trute, B., & Segal, S. P. (1976). Census tract predictors and the social integration of sheltered-care residents. Social Psychiatry, 11(4), 153-161.
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Segal, S. P., & Aviram, U. (1976). Transition from mental hospital to community. In Social welfare forum 1975 (pp. 121-130.). New York: Columbia University Press. https://www.academia.edu/28703404/Transition_from_mental_hospital_to_community_Issues_in_providing_a_continuing_sheltered_care_environment._In_National_Conference_of_Social_Welfare?auto=download
Aviram, U., & Segal, S. P. (1973). The exclusion of the mentally ill: Reflection on an old problem in a new context. Archives of General Psychiatry, 126-131. doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1973.04200010095016
Segal, SP (1972). Research on the outcome of social work therapeutic interventions: A review of the literature. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 13, 3-17. doi.org/10.2307/2136968 PMC7574953 PMID: 4402055 NIHMS1635383
Gruenberg, E. D., Turns, D., Segal, S. P., & Solomon, M. (1972). Social breakdown syndrome: Environmental and host factors associated with chronicity. American Journal of Public Health, 62:91-94. DOI: 10.2105/ajph.62.1.91 PMCID: PMC1530015 PMID: 5008650
The Mental Health and Social Welfare Research Group (MHSWRG)
The Mental Health and Social Welfare Research Group (MHSWRG) is an interdisciplinary group of researchers established to link policy to practice and person outcomes in the mental health field. The name of the group derives from its mission of improving the life situation of people with mental illness. While psychological disturbance plays havoc with one's internal environment, its effects are largely experienced in the "real world" — the world of work, social and community relationships, and in the quality of a person's life situation. It is the nexus between an individual's life situation, the mental health services designed to help the individual deal with their psychological disability, and the programs and policies designed to make these services effective that is the focus of the research effort of MHSWRG. While policy initiatives have made significant differences in the field, they have suffered in their implementation by lack of specification of their relationship to outcomes actually experienced by people with psychological disabilities. For 50 years, with the support of the NIMH, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, NARSAD, and the Zellerbach Family Fund, this group has contributed to the knowledge of how to link policy and practice to improved person outcomes.
Selected Contributions to Science
Compulsory Community Treatment: Outpatient Commitment, Assisted Outpatient Treatment, Community Treatment Orders
Outpatient Civil Commitment has become quite controversial, particularly due to studies that have reported "failure to find" differences in outcomes of those patients placed on outpatient orders and those simply released from hospital without such oversight. My work has pointed to the deficiencies of these investigations in the Lancet and begun the building of a knowledge base on the utility of outpatient commitment for reducing threats to health and safety, and providing needed treatment to those refusing treatment.
- Segal SP & Badran, L (2024). Cochrane meta-analysis fuels invalid skepticism about compulsory community treatment effectiveness. Psychiatry research, 342, 116218. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2024.116218
- Segal SP, Hayes SL, Rimes L (2019). Reduced-risks of victimization and crime perpetration. European Psychiatry. 56, 97–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2018.12.001
- Segal SP, Hayes SL, Rimes L (2018). Acute medical care access and protecting health. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 53(6), 597-606. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s00127-018-1510-5
- Segal SP, Hayes SL, Rimes L (2017). The Utility of Outpatient Commitment: A need for treatment and a least restrictive alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. Psychiatric Services. 68(12): 1247-1254 (APPI-PS-2016-00161.R5)
- Segal SP, Hayes SL, Rimes L (2017). Mortality risk, protecting health, safety, and quality of life. Psychiatric Services. 68(12): 1255–1261 (APPI-PS-2016-00164.R5)
Refugees and Immigrants
Working with colleagues in and from the Middle East and support from the Milton and Florence Krenz Mack Chaired Professorship, in 2009 MHSRG founded the Mack Center on Mental Health and Social Conflict. Given the fact that of forty-plus million refugees in 2014 only a half of one percent returned home or were repatriated to another country in that year, the Mack Center on Mental Health and Social Conflict* sought to find solutions to improve the situation of refugees in situ. See:
- Rizkalla N, Segal SP (2019). Trauma during humanitarian work: the effects on intimacy, wellbeing and PTSD-symptoms. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 10:1, 1679065, DOI: 10.1080/20008198.2019.1679065
- Rizkalla N, Segal SP (2019).War can harm intimacy: Consequences for refugees who escaped Syria. Journal of Global Health. December 2019 9(2) doi: 10.7189/jogh.09.020407
- Segal SP, Khoury VC, Salah R, Ghannam J (2018). Contributors to Screening Positive for Mental Illness in Lebanon's Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 2018 Jan; 206(1):46-51. https://doi.o10.1097/NMD.0000000000000751
- Rizkalla N, Segal SP (2018). Wellbeing and Growth among Syrian Refugees in Jordan. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31(2):213-222. doi: 10.1002/jts.22281. Epub 2018 Mar 31.
*Since 2016, the Mack Center on Mental Health and Social Conflict has been part of Risk Resilience Research group.
Consumer Empowerment
Working with consumers, MHSWRG helped develop the Center for Self Help Research (CSHR) have developed a knowledge base related to consumer driven service. The Center for Self Help Research — an organization with half professional and half consumer researchers jointly funded by NIMH and SAMHSA — helped in conceptualizing and measuring consumer valued concepts.
- Segal SP, Silverman C, & Temkin T (1995). Measuring empowerment in client-run self-help agencies. Community Mental Health Journal, 31(3), 215-227.
Among other investigations conducted were clinical trials involving ten consumer led agencies and companion community mental health agencies that have demonstrated the importance of empowering procedures in consumer-led organizations — procedures distinguishing these agencies from other NGOs. See:
- Segal, S. P., Silverman, C., & Temkin, T (2013). Self-stigma in consumer-operated and community mental health services: Two randomized controlled trials. Psychiatric Services. 64(10): 990-996.
- Segal SP, Silverman C, & Temkin T (2011). Outcomes from consumer-operated and community mental health services: A randomized controlled trial. Psychiatric Services. 62(8), 915-921.
- Segal SP, Silverman C, Temkin T (2010). Self-help and community mental health agency outcomes: A recovery-focused randomized trial. Psychiatric Services, 61(9), 905-910.
Vulnerable Populations: Ethnic minorities, criminal justice and high-risk patients
Service Impacts: A finding of significantly higher dosing of chlorpromazine equivalent medication given to African American males compared to other patients in PES evaluations, led to changes in PES procedures around the country and better evaluations of the posology of such medications by race. It changed PES dosing procedures. See:
- Segal SP, Bola JR, & Watson M (1996). Race, quality of care, and antipsychotic prescription practices in the psychiatric emergency service. Psychiatric Services, 47(3), 282-286.
Service Utilization: Studies have enhanced the understanding of minority service utilization and helped to target services to the most needy among minority group populations. See:
- Badran L, Rizkalla N, Segal SP (2024). Social determinants for understanding Muslims’ intentions toward seeking mental health help based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, DOI 10.1177/00207640241288193
- Theriot MT, Segal SP (2005). Criminal Justice System Involvement among New Clients at Outpatient Mental Health Agencies. Psychiatric Services. 56(2): 179-185.
- Barretto R, Segal SP (2005). Asian American Mental Health Services Utilization. Psychiatric Services, 56(6):1-3.
- Theriot MT, Segal SP, Cowsert MJ (2003). African-Americans and comprehensive service use. Community Mental Health Journal, 29(3), 225-2.
Psychiatric Emergency and Inpatient Civil Commitment Criteria
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) proposed changes in civil commitment criteria based on assumptions indicating that dangerousness could not be reliably assessed, that individual coming to psychiatric emergency service(PES) were dangerous and not the most severely mentally ill, and that disposition of individuals was not dependent on the severity of their disorder. Our research showed these assumptions were not correct and changed the direction of APA advocacy. The group completed a study that in concert with psychiatric emergency services (PES) staff developed The TRIAD Simulation of Clinical Judgment. TRIAD (Three Ratings of Involuntary Admissibility) simulates clinical judgment by scoring patterns of behavior and circumstance as more or less dangerous. TRIAD was developed through an iterative process resulting in the identification and ranking of patterns of behavior and circumstance more or less likely to lead to the determination that a patient is involuntarily admissible by the standards of California LPS Act 5150. TRIAD consists of three checklists with a total of 88 numbered items that can be combined to yield 166 patterns of behavior and circumstance relevant to the clinical prediction of violence and suicide and the assessment of grave disability. In our recorded observational assessments of 710 patients evaluated in ten PESs in California, TRIAD scores correctly predicted disposition, a concurrent measure of perceived dangerousness, in 82% cases observed. The use of TRIAD in addition to other measures on the project enabled the assessment of quality of care in the PES, workload limitations, and revealed needs for training staff in de-escalation skills. See for example:
- Segal, SP and Franskoviak, P (2017). Denial of access to individuals seeking inpatient care: disposition determinants and 12-month outcomes. Journal of Forensic Sciences & Criminal Investigation. 2017; 2(4): 555592. DOI: 10.19080/JFSCI.2017.02.555592.
- Segal SP, Egley L, Watson M, Goldfinger S (1995). The quality of psychiatric emergency evaluations and patient outcomes in county hospitals. American Journal of Public Health, 85(10), 1429-1431.
- Segal SP, Watson M, Goldfinger S, Averbuck D (1988). Civil commitment in the psychiatric emergency room: Assessment of dangerousness by emergency room clinicians. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45,748-52.
- Segal SP, Watson M, Goldfinger S, Averbuck D (1988). Civil commitment in the psychiatric emergency room: Mental disorder indicators & three dangerousness criteria. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 753-758.
- Segal SP, Watson M., Goldfinger S., & Averbuck D (1988). Civil commitment in the psychiatric emergency room: Disposition as a function of mental disorder and dangerousness indicators. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 759-763.
Supported Community Care for People with Severe Mental Illness
Conceptualization and Measurement of the Social Integration of a probability sample of all people leaving state psychiatric hospitals for residential care facilities in California: 427 people, in 211 facilities, in 157 census tracts. The sample was followed for 10 years with NIMH and RWJ support. We determined factors associated with enhancing their involvement in the community of the facility and the external community, addressed factors associated with improving resident health and mental health, evaluated medication practices, assessed the quality of the facilities and suggested ways to improve community, facility, and person fit. The Segal & Aviram book on the topic remains one of the most cited in the field. See sample of publications:
- Segal SP, & Kotler PL (1993). Sheltered-care residence and personal outcomes ten years later. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 63(1), 80-91.
- Segal SP, VanderVoort DJ, & Liese LH (1993). Residential status and the physical health of a mentally ill population. Health & Social Work, 18(3), 208-214.
- Segal SP, Cohen D, & Marder S (1992). Neuroleptic medication and prescription practices for mentally ill sheltered care residents. American Journal of Public Health, 82(6), 846-852.
- Segal SP, Aviram U (1978). The Mentally Ill In Community-based Sheltered Care: A Study of Community Care and Social Integration. New York: Wiley-Interscience.
Homeless services
- Segal, S. P., & Baumohl, J. (1985). The community living room. Social Casework, 66(2), 111-116. DOI: 10.1177/104438948506600208 PMC7470223 PMID: 32905488NIHMS1621064
- Segal, SP & Baumohl, J. (1980). Engaging the disengaged: Recommendations on madness and vagrancy. Social Work, 25, 358-365. DOI10.1525/sp.1977.24.3.03a00100 PMC7470109 PMID: 32905443 NIHMS1619907
- Segal, SP, Baumohl, J., & Johnson, E. (1977). Falling through the cracks: Mental disorder and social margin in a young vagrant population. Social Problems, 24(3), 387-400. doi.org/10.1525/sp.1977.24.3.03a00100 PMC7485939
Foster vs. Institutional Care
- Segal SP. (2023). Home First: Stability and Opportunity in Out-of-Home Care. Psych 2023, 5(1), 148-193 (as of 22 March 2024, Psych has been renamed to Psychology International) https://doi.org/10.3390/psych5010014 https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8611/5/1/14