Papers and Background Material

We will be putting up materials to prepare participants for the symposium, both as general background materials and as specific information related to the discussion panels. Some documents are available as Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf), for which you can download the free Acrobat Reader program to view them.

We have a text version of a speech given by Judge Harold Shabo, who will be participating in the panel discussion on treatment perspectives during the symposium. In this document, he addresses some of the basic questions regarding the social costs of our current mental health public policies, including what he regards as the progressive "criminalization" of mental illness.
Social Costs: Criminal Justice and Mental Health System Gaps that Contribute to the Criminalization of Mentally Disordered Persons

Also, the Little Hoover Commission of California's state government has several reports online regarding the state of mental health care which can be accessed via their website.

More information and background can be found at the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers website, as well as at the wbsite for the Health Services Research Center at UCLA.

Barbara Havassy has sent an abstract of her latest study, reproduced below:
New Perspectives on Comorbidity: Co-Occurring Major Mental and Substance Use Disorders in Public-Sector Psychiatric and Drug Treatment Patients

Richard Scheffler has provided us with the text of two papers of which he is a co-author:
Professional Psychology in a New Era: Practice-based Evidence from California
Psychologist Supply, Managed Care, & the Effects on Income: Fault Lines Beneath California Psychologists

Helen Thomson has submitted the text of an op-ed piece she wrote:
Erasing Stigma is Essential to Reform

Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley