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  • 1963 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John S. Brekke is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research focuses on fields within Health Professions and Psychology, with notable emphasis on General Health Professions and subfields such as Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Epidemiology.

The main themes of Brekke's work relate to Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Homelessness and Social Issues, and broader topics like Mental Health and Psychiatry, Community Health and Development, and cognitive aspects involving Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, and Treatment.

The scientist has contributed multiple papers to various research venues. Selected recent publications include:

  • Psychiatry's Myopia-Reclaiming the Social, Cultural, and Psychological in the Psychiatric Gaze (2020, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Definitions of Community for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses: Implications for Community Integration and Recovery (2020, Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research)
  • Is It Safe? Community Integration for Individuals With Serious Mental Illnesses (2020, Research on Social Work Practice)
  • Service Use by Medicaid Recipients With Serious Mental Illness During an RCT of the Bridge Peer Health Navigator Intervention (2021, Psychiatric Services)
  • Managing substance use for clients with serious mental illnesses: Knowledge, attitude, and training challenges among outpatient behavioral health providers in California, Ohio, and New York (2021, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment)

Frequently publishing in venues such as Research on Social Work Practice, JAMA Psychiatry, Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, and Psychiatric Services, Brekke's work is oriented toward applied and policy-related aspects of mental health.

Collaborators frequently include Erin L. Kelly, Rohini Pahwa, Melissa E. Smith, Helle Thorning, and Joel T. Braslow. These coauthors have appeared in research efforts on multiple occasions alongside Brekke.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Brekke was awarded the title of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1963.

Best Publications

  • Biosocial pathways to functional outcome in schizophrenia

    John Brekke;Diane D. Kay;Kimmy S. Lee;Michael F. Green

  • Is Emotion Processing a Predictor of Functional Outcome in Schizophrenia

    Kimmy S. Kee;Michael F. Green;Jim Mintz;John S. Brekke

  • Risks for Individuals With Schizophrenia Who Are Living in the Community

    John S. Brekke;Cathy Prindle;Sung Woo Bae;Jeffrey D. Long

  • Intrinsic motivation, neurocognition and psychosocial functioning in schizophrenia: testing mediator and moderator effects.

    Eri Nakagami;Bin Xie;Maanse Hoe;John S. Brekke

  • How Neurocognition and Social Cognition Influence Functional Change During Community-Based Psychosocial Rehabilitation for Individuals with Schizophrenia

    John S. Brekke;Maanse Hoe;Jeffrey Long;Michael F. Green

  • Neuropsychological and Psychophysiological Correlates of Psychosocial Functioning in Schizophrenia

    John S. Brekke;Adrian Raine;Mark Ansel;Todd Lencz

  • Translational Science at the National Institute of Mental Health: Can Social Work Take Its Rightful Place?

    John S. Brekke;Kathleen Ell;Lawrence A. Palinkas

  • Psychosocial Functioning and Subjective Experience in Schizophrenia

    John S. Brekke;Shelley Levin;George H. Wolkon;Eugene Sobel

  • Shaping a Science of Social Work

    John S. Brekke

  • Neuropsychological functioning as a moderator of the relationship between psychosocial functioning and the subjective experience of self and life in schizophrenia

    John S. Brekke;Brandon Kohrt;Michael F. Green

  • Community-Based Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Prospective Change in Functional, Clinical, and Subjective Experience Variables in Schizophrenia

    John S. Brekke;Jeffrey D. Long

  • The causal relationships between neurocognition, social cognition and functional outcome over time in schizophrenia: a latent difference score approach.

    M. Hoe;E. Nakagami;M. F. Green;J. S. Brekke

  • The impact of service characteristics on functional outcomes from community support programs for persons with schizophrenia: a growth curve analysis.

    John S. Brekke;Jeffrey D. Long;Noel Nesbitt;Eugene Sobel

  • Cross-ethnic Symptom Differences in Schizophrenia: The Influence of Culture and Minority Status

    John S. Brekke;Concepcion Barrio

  • The Prospective Relationships Among Intrinsic Motivation, Neurocognition, and Psychosocial Functioning in Schizophrenia

    Eri Nakagami;Maanse Hoe;John S. Brekke

  • Intensity and Continuity of Services and Functional Outcomes in the Rehabilitation of Persons With Schizophrenia

    John S. Brekke;Mark Ansel;Jeffrey Long;Elizabeth Slade

  • Grand Challenges for Social Work

    Edwina Uehara;Marilyn Flynn;Rowena Fong;John Brekke

  • Direct assessment of functional abilities: relevance to persons with schizophrenia

    Christine L. McKibbin;John S. Brekke;Danielle Sires;Dilip V. Jeste;Dilip V. Jeste

  • A model for measuring the implementation of community support programs: results from three sites.

    John S. Brekke;Mary Ann Test

  • A Pilot Test of a Peer Navigator Intervention for Improving the Health of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

    Erin Kelly;Anthony Fulginiti;Rohini Pahwa;Louise Tallen

  • In Search of a Theoretical Structure for Understanding Motivation in Schizophrenia

    Alice Medalia;John Brekke

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey D. Long
Jeffrey D. Long University of Iowa
Michael F. Green
Michael F. Green University of California, Los Angeles
Richard P. Barth
Richard P. Barth University of Maryland, Baltimore
Raymond W. Novaco
Raymond W. Novaco University of California, Irvine
Dilip V. Jeste
Dilip V. Jeste University of California, San Diego
Jan S. Greenberg
Jan S. Greenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine University of Pennsylvania
Eric Rice
Eric Rice University of Southern California
Shirley M. Glynn
Shirley M. Glynn University of California, Los Angeles
John W. Graham
John W. Graham Pennsylvania State University

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