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Jeffrey W. Swanson

Jeffrey W. Swanson

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
74
Citations
21543
World Ranking
589
National Ranking
279

Overview

Jeffrey W. Swanson is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology, health, and sociology and political science. This work spans multiple subfields including general health professions and social psychology.

The main topics of Swanson's research include gun ownership and violence research, suicide and self-harm studies, mental health treatment and access, healthcare decision-making and restraints, psychiatric care and mental health services, schizophrenia research and treatment, and traumatic ocular and foreign body injuries.

Swanson's recent scholarly contributions feature studies such as:

  • Extreme risk protection orders in response to threats of multiple victim/mass shooting in six U.S. states: A descriptive study (2022) published in Preventive Medicine
  • Preventing Suicide Through Better Firearm Safety Policy in the United States (2020) published in Psychiatric Services
  • Impact of psychiatric advance directive facilitation on mental health consumers: empowerment, treatment attitudes and the role of peer support specialists (2020) published in Journal of Mental Health
  • The color of risk protection orders: gun violence, gun laws, and racial justice (2020) published in Injury Epidemiology
  • Suicide Prevention Effects of Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws in Four States (2024) published in PubMed

Frequent collaborators in their work include Michele M. Easter, Marvin S. Swartz, Shannon Frattaroli, April M. Zeoli, and Reena Kapoor. These coauthors appear repeatedly across multiple studies, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Swanson's publications appear regularly in several venues such as PubMed, Psychiatric Services, Injury Epidemiology, JAMA Network Open, and UNC Libraries. Each of these venues has published multiple works by Swanson, reflecting an established presence in these scientific outlets.

Best Publications

  • Violence and Psychiatric Disorder in the Community: Evidence From the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Surveys

    Jeffrey W. Swanson;Charles E. Holzer;Vijay K. Ganju;Robert Tsutomu Jono

  • A National Study of Violent Behavior in Persons With Schizophrenia

    Jeffrey W. Swanson;Marvin S. Swartz;Richard A. Van Dorn;Eric B. Elbogen

  • Violence and severe mental illness: the effects of substance abuse and nonadherence to medication.

    M. S. Swartz;Jeffrey W. Swanson;V. A. Hiday;Randy Borum

  • Medication adherence and long-term functional outcomes in the treatment of schizophrenia in usual care.

    Haya Ascher-Svanum;Douglas E Faries;Baojin Zhu;Frank R Ernst

  • Mental disorder, substance abuse, and community violence: An epidemiological approach.

    Jeffrey W. Swanson

  • Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited.

    Eric Silver;Edward P. Mulvey;Jeffrey W. Swanson

  • Reliability and validity of the SF-12 health survey among people with severe mental illness.

    Michelle P. Salyers;Hayden B. Bosworth;Jeffrey W. Swanson;Jerilynn Lamb-Pagone

  • Psychotic symptoms and disorders and the risk of violent behaviour in the community

    Jeffrey W. Swanson;Randy Borum;Marvin S. Swartz;John Monahan

  • Can Involuntary Outpatient Commitment Reduce Hospital Recidivism?: Findings From a Randomized Trial With Severely Mentally Ill Individuals

    M S Swartz;J W Swanson;H R Wagner;B J Burns

  • Recent victimization in women and men with severe mental illness: prevalence and correlates.

    Lisa A. Goodman;Michelle P. Salyers;Kim T. Mueser;Stanley D. Rosenberg

  • Involuntary out-patient commitment and reduction of violent behaviour in persons with severe mental illness

    Jeffrey W. Swanson;Marvin S. Swartz;H. Ryan Wagner;Barbara J. Burns

  • Criminal Victimization of Persons With Severe Mental Illness

    V. A. Hiday;M. S. Swartz;Jeffrey W. Swanson;Randy Borum

  • The social-environmental context of violent behavior in persons treated for severe mental illness.

    Jeffrey W. Swanson;Marvin S. Swartz;Susan M. Essock;Fred C. Osher

  • Violence and severe mental disorder in clinical and community populations: the effects of psychotic symptoms, comorbidity, and lack of treatment

    Jeffrey Swanson;Sue Estroff;Marvin Swartz;Randy Borum;Randy Borum

  • Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: bringing epidemiologic research to policy.

    Jeffrey W. Swanson;Emma Elizabeth McGinty;Seena Fazel;Vickie M. Mays

  • Use of Leverage to Improve Adherence to Psychiatric Treatment in the Community

    John Monahan;Allison D. Redlich;Jeffrey Swanson;Pamela Clark Robbins

  • Facilitated Psychiatric Advance Directives: A Randomized Trial of an Intervention to Foster Advance Treatment Planning Among Persons with Severe Mental Illness

    Jeffrey W. Swanson;Marvin S. Swartz;Eric B. Elbogen;Richard A. Van Dorn

  • Making the case for laws that improve health: a framework for public health law research.

    Scott Burris;Alexander C. Wagenaar;Jeffrey W. Swanson;Jennifer K. Ibrahim

  • Comparison of antipsychotic medication effects on reducing violence in people with schizophrenia

    Jeffrey W. Swanson;Marvin S. Swartz;Richard A. Van Dorn;Jan Volavka

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of Outpatient Commitment in North Carolina

    Marvin S. Swartz;Jeffrey W. Swanson;Virginia A. Hiday;H. Ryan Wagner

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Van Dorn
Richard A. Van Dorn Policy Research Associates
Eric B. Elbogen
Eric B. Elbogen Duke University
Virginia Aldigé Hiday
Virginia Aldigé Hiday North Carolina State University
Randy Borum
Randy Borum University of South Florida
John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia
Linda K. Frisman
Linda K. Frisman University of Connecticut
Henry J. Steadman
Henry J. Steadman Policy Research Associates
Linda K. George
Linda K. George Duke University
Lisa A. Goodman
Lisa A. Goodman Boston College
Allison D. Redlich
Allison D. Redlich George Mason University

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