The  Research and Evaluation Section of  San Bernardino County's Department of Behavioral Health conducts basic and applied research on serious mental illnesses, and assesses the effectiveness of service-delivery programs in order to benefit clients and contribute new knowledge to the field of public mental health.

Current Projects (2003+)

• Effects of Ethnic Matching on Treatment Outcomes [Post-hoc design]

• Client Receptivity and Benefit from Telepsychiatry Services [Randomized design without control group]

• Effects of the Implementation of a Medication Algorithm for persons with severe mental illnesses (psychoses) - [this is a quasi-experimental design]

• Effects of Establishing Urgent Care Services at Traditional Outpatient Mental Health Clinics

• Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Self Perception in Persons with Serious Mental Illness

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