J W Swanson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1045548 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J W Swanson |
| PRENOMES | J W |
| SOBRENOME | Swanson |
| ASSINATURA | SWANSON J W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9534-3342 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 141 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Reflections on the First Decade of Erpo Laws
Extreme Risk Protection Orders as Criminal Deflection and Diversion
The extreme risk protection order (ERPO) was conceived initially as a civil restraining order to temporarily suspend access to firearms for individuals behaving dangerously who are not otherwise legally barred from gun possession by a felony conviction or other gun-disqualifying record. In practice, however, ERPOs in many states are being applied in a range of different kinds of cases in conjunction with discretionary criminal law enforcement and…
Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide
PURPOSE: This article describes epidemiologic evidence concerning risk of gun violence and suicide linked to psychiatric disorders, in contrast to media-fueled public perceptions of the dangerousness of mentally ill individuals, and evaluates effectiveness of policies and laws designed to prevent firearms injury and mortality associated with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders. METHODS: Research concerning public attitudes toward…
Using Research Evidence to Reframe the Policy Debate Around Mental Illness and Guns
Recent mass shootings have prompted a national dialogue around mental illness and gun policy. To advance an evidence-informed policy agenda on this controversial issue, we formed a consortium of national gun violence prevention and mental health experts. The consortium agreed on a guiding principle for future policy recommendations: restricting firearm access on the basis of certain dangerous behaviors is supported by the evidence; restricting ac…
Critical Opportunities for Public Health Law
Although legal interventions are responsible for many sentinel public health achievements, law is underutilized as a tool for advancing population health. Our purpose was to identify critical opportunities for public health lawmaking. We articulated key criteria and illustrated their use with 5 examples. These opportunities involve significant health problems that are potentially amenable to change through law and for which an effective legal int…
Psychiatric Advance Directives and Social Workers
Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal documents that allow individuals to express their wishes for future psychiatric care and to authorize a legally appointed proxy to make decisions on their behalf during incapacitating crises. PADs are viewed as an alternative to the coercive interventions that sometimes accompany mental health crises for people with mental illness. Insofar as coercive interventions can abridge clients' autonomy and …
A Conceptually Based Scale to Measure Consumers’ Treatment Motivation
Objectives: The objective of this work was to assess the reliability and validity of the Treatment Motivation Questionnaire— Revised (TMQ-R) in people with serious mental illness (SMI). Method: A large sample of consumers of mental health services (n = 469) were administered the TMQ-R. Results: The factor structure specified in previous research did not fit the data well. However, a five-factor model with the two subtypes of introjected (i.e., fe…
Effectively implementing psychiatric advance directives to promote self-determination of treatment among people with mental illness
Statutes on psychiatric advance directives (PADs) allow competent individuals to document instructions for future mental health treatment in the event of an incapacitating crisis. PADs are aimed at promoting a stronger sense of patient self-determination, considered a central tenet of psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery; however, it is unknown what factors (if any) lead psychiatric patients with PADs to experience this benefit long term. The…
Endorsement of personal benefit of outpatient commitment among persons with severe mental illness
This study examines whether individuals who experienced involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) attribute benefit to this intervention. It was found that the majority of experimental subjects who underwent a period of OPC did not personally endorse OPC's benefits at the end of the study, either because they did not think it improved treatment adherence or because they rejected their own need for continued treatment. However, at the end of the stu…
Does involuntary outpatient commitment lead to more intensive treatment
Studies of involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) among persons with severe mental illness have concluded that OPC is only effective in improving treatment outcomes when it is sustained for 6 months or longer and is combined with frequent outpatient services. This article explores factors that influence the delivery of outpatient services to subjects in a randomized trial of OPC and finds 2 general patterns. Outpatient visits were more frequent …
The Social–Environmental Context of Violent Behavior in Persons Treated for Severe Mental Illness
Objectives. This study examined the prevalence and correlates of violent behavior by individuals with severe mental illness. Methods. Participants (N = 802) were adults with psychotic or major mood disorders receiving inpatient or outpatient services in public mental health systems in 4 states. Results. The 1-year prevalence of serious assaultive behavior was 13%. Three variables—past violent victimization, violence in the surrounding environment…
Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder
Medical futility decisions and physicians' legal defensiveness
Hispanic Americans and the state mental hospitals in Texas
Psychopathology and economic status in mother-only and mother-father families
The Philosophy of Language
Discussion on the D-Thesis
Reanimated for the contemporary literature in the writings of Quine ([15]), [16]) and Kuhn [7], the conventionalism of Duhem [2] and Poincaré [12] has emerged in the last few years as one of the genuinely interesting topics in the philosophy of science. The theory in question—let us follow Grünbaum [3] in calling it the D-thesis, after its founder, Pierre Duhem—claims three things: (1) a single scientific hypothesis H is never disconfirmable in i…
On a Problem of Nicod and Strawson
On Models
The Counter-University Movement
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJ. W. SwansonJ. W. Swanson is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts
Philosophy and Ordinary Language
Linguistic Relativity and Translation
Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder
Philosophy and Ordinary Language
The Social–Environmental Context of Violent Behavior in Persons Treated for Severe Mental Illness
Objectives. This study examined the prevalence and correlates of violent behavior by individuals with severe mental illness. Methods. Participants (N = 802) were adults with psychotic or major mood disorders receiving inpatient or outpatient services in public mental health systems in 4 states. Results. The 1-year prevalence of serious assaultive behavior was 13%. Three variables—past violent victimization, violence in the surrounding environment…
Using Research Evidence to Reframe the Policy Debate Around Mental Illness and Guns
Recent mass shootings have prompted a national dialogue around mental illness and gun policy. To advance an evidence-informed policy agenda on this controversial issue, we formed a consortium of national gun violence prevention and mental health experts. The consortium agreed on a guiding principle for future policy recommendations: restricting firearm access on the basis of certain dangerous behaviors is supported by the evidence; restricting ac…
Effectively implementing psychiatric advance directives to promote self-determination of treatment among people with mental illness
Statutes on psychiatric advance directives (PADs) allow competent individuals to document instructions for future mental health treatment in the event of an incapacitating crisis. PADs are aimed at promoting a stronger sense of patient self-determination, considered a central tenet of psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery; however, it is unknown what factors (if any) lead psychiatric patients with PADs to experience this benefit long term. The…
Medical futility decisions and physicians' legal defensiveness
On Models
Endorsement of personal benefit of outpatient commitment among persons with severe mental illness
This study examines whether individuals who experienced involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) attribute benefit to this intervention. It was found that the majority of experimental subjects who underwent a period of OPC did not personally endorse OPC's benefits at the end of the study, either because they did not think it improved treatment adherence or because they rejected their own need for continued treatment. However, at the end of the stu…
Does involuntary outpatient commitment lead to more intensive treatment
Studies of involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) among persons with severe mental illness have concluded that OPC is only effective in improving treatment outcomes when it is sustained for 6 months or longer and is combined with frequent outpatient services. This article explores factors that influence the delivery of outpatient services to subjects in a randomized trial of OPC and finds 2 general patterns. Outpatient visits were more frequent …
Discussion on the D-Thesis
Reanimated for the contemporary literature in the writings of Quine ([15]), [16]) and Kuhn [7], the conventionalism of Duhem [2] and Poincaré [12] has emerged in the last few years as one of the genuinely interesting topics in the philosophy of science. The theory in question—let us follow Grünbaum [3] in calling it the D-thesis, after its founder, Pierre Duhem—claims three things: (1) a single scientific hypothesis H is never disconfirmable in i…
On a Problem of Nicod and Strawson
Linguistic Relativity and Translation
Linguistic Relativity and Translation
Philosophy and Ordinary Language
The Counter-University Movement
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJ. W. SwansonJ. W. Swanson is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts
Discussion on the D-Thesis
Reanimated for the contemporary literature in the writings of Quine ([15]), [16]) and Kuhn [7], the conventionalism of Duhem [2] and Poincaré [12] has emerged in the last few years as one of the genuinely interesting topics in the philosophy of science. The theory in question—let us follow Grünbaum [3] in calling it the D-thesis, after its founder, Pierre Duhem—claims three things: (1) a single scientific hypothesis H is never disconfirmable in i…
On a Problem of Nicod and Strawson
On Models
The Philosophy of Language
Psychopathology and economic status in mother-only and mother-father families
Hispanic Americans and the state mental hospitals in Texas
Medical futility decisions and physicians' legal defensiveness
The Social–Environmental Context of Violent Behavior in Persons Treated for Severe Mental Illness
Objectives. This study examined the prevalence and correlates of violent behavior by individuals with severe mental illness. Methods. Participants (N = 802) were adults with psychotic or major mood disorders receiving inpatient or outpatient services in public mental health systems in 4 states. Results. The 1-year prevalence of serious assaultive behavior was 13%. Three variables—past violent victimization, violence in the surrounding environment…
Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder
Endorsement of personal benefit of outpatient commitment among persons with severe mental illness
This study examines whether individuals who experienced involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) attribute benefit to this intervention. It was found that the majority of experimental subjects who underwent a period of OPC did not personally endorse OPC's benefits at the end of the study, either because they did not think it improved treatment adherence or because they rejected their own need for continued treatment. However, at the end of the stu…
Does involuntary outpatient commitment lead to more intensive treatment
Studies of involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) among persons with severe mental illness have concluded that OPC is only effective in improving treatment outcomes when it is sustained for 6 months or longer and is combined with frequent outpatient services. This article explores factors that influence the delivery of outpatient services to subjects in a randomized trial of OPC and finds 2 general patterns. Outpatient visits were more frequent …
Effectively implementing psychiatric advance directives to promote self-determination of treatment among people with mental illness
Statutes on psychiatric advance directives (PADs) allow competent individuals to document instructions for future mental health treatment in the event of an incapacitating crisis. PADs are aimed at promoting a stronger sense of patient self-determination, considered a central tenet of psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery; however, it is unknown what factors (if any) lead psychiatric patients with PADs to experience this benefit long term. The…
Psychiatric Advance Directives and Social Workers
Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal documents that allow individuals to express their wishes for future psychiatric care and to authorize a legally appointed proxy to make decisions on their behalf during incapacitating crises. PADs are viewed as an alternative to the coercive interventions that sometimes accompany mental health crises for people with mental illness. Insofar as coercive interventions can abridge clients' autonomy and …
A Conceptually Based Scale to Measure Consumers’ Treatment Motivation
Objectives: The objective of this work was to assess the reliability and validity of the Treatment Motivation Questionnaire— Revised (TMQ-R) in people with serious mental illness (SMI). Method: A large sample of consumers of mental health services (n = 469) were administered the TMQ-R. Results: The factor structure specified in previous research did not fit the data well. However, a five-factor model with the two subtypes of introjected (i.e., fe…
Critical Opportunities for Public Health Law
Although legal interventions are responsible for many sentinel public health achievements, law is underutilized as a tool for advancing population health. Our purpose was to identify critical opportunities for public health lawmaking. We articulated key criteria and illustrated their use with 5 examples. These opportunities involve significant health problems that are potentially amenable to change through law and for which an effective legal int…
Using Research Evidence to Reframe the Policy Debate Around Mental Illness and Guns
Recent mass shootings have prompted a national dialogue around mental illness and gun policy. To advance an evidence-informed policy agenda on this controversial issue, we formed a consortium of national gun violence prevention and mental health experts. The consortium agreed on a guiding principle for future policy recommendations: restricting firearm access on the basis of certain dangerous behaviors is supported by the evidence; restricting ac…
Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide
PURPOSE: This article describes epidemiologic evidence concerning risk of gun violence and suicide linked to psychiatric disorders, in contrast to media-fueled public perceptions of the dangerousness of mentally ill individuals, and evaluates effectiveness of policies and laws designed to prevent firearms injury and mortality associated with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders. METHODS: Research concerning public attitudes toward…
Extreme Risk Protection Orders as Criminal Deflection and Diversion
The extreme risk protection order (ERPO) was conceived initially as a civil restraining order to temporarily suspend access to firearms for individuals behaving dangerously who are not otherwise legally barred from gun possession by a felony conviction or other gun-disqualifying record. In practice, however, ERPOs in many states are being applied in a range of different kinds of cases in conjunction with discretionary criminal law enforcement and…
Reflections on the First Decade of Erpo Laws
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