Irsay Faculty Publications
Cutting-edge research from our socio-medical experts
Beyond Rational Choice: The Social Dynamics of How People Seek Help.
American Journal of Sociology 97(4):1096-1138
1992
Illness Careers and Network Ties: A Conceptual Model of Utilization and Compliance.
Advances in Medical Sociology 2:161-184
1991
Society and the Balance of Professional Dominance and Patient Autonomy in Medical Care.
Indiana Law Journal 96(4):1115-1122
1994
Communities of Care: A Theoretical Perspective on Case Management Models in Mental Health.
B.A. Pescosolido, E.R. Wright, and W.P. Sullivan
Advances in Medical Sociology 6:37-79
1995
Health, Illness, and Healing in an Uncertain Era: Challenges From and For Medical Sociology.
B.A. Pescosolido, J.C. Kronenfeld
Journal of Health and Social Behavior Extra Issue: 5-33
1995
Bringing the 'Community' into Utilization Models: How Social Networks Link Individuals to Changing Systems of Care.
Research in the Sociology of Health Care 13A:171-197
1996
Critical Ingredients of Assertive Community Treatment: Judgments of Experts.
Journal of Mental Health Administration 22:113-125
1995
Client Perspectives on Helpful Ingredients of Assertive Community Training.
J.C. McGrew, R.G. Wilson, G.R. Bond
*Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal *19(3):13-21
1996
Professional Work in Public and Private Settings: The Use and Evaluation of the *DSM* in Psychiatric Units.
B.A. Pescosolido, A. Figert, K. Lubell
Current Research on Occupation and Professions 9:31-52
1996
Medical Sociology and the Study of Severe Mental Illness: Reflections on Past Accomplishments and Directions for Future Research.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 35:95-114
1995
Choice of Health Insurance by Families of the Mentally Ill.
P. Deb, V. Wlcox-Göx, A. Holmes, J. Rubin
1996
Downsizing State Psychiatric Hospitals.
P.Deci, E. McDonel, J. Semke, T. Hadley, M. Hogan, B.A. Pescosolido.
1997
New Ethical Challenges to Mental Health Services Research in the Era of Community-Based Care.
E.R. Wright, B.A. Pescosolido, R. Levin Penslar
Journal of Mental Health Administration 24(2): 139-151
1997
The Human and Organizational Markers of Health System Change: Framing Studies of Hospital Downsizing and Closure.
Research in the Sociology of Health Care 14:69-95
1997
The Closing of Central State Hospital: An Alliance of Academic and Government Collaboration.
E.R. Wright, T.F. White, R.N. DeLiberty.
1997
Implementing State-Level Mental Health Policy Reforms in Indiana: Closing a State-Operated Psychiatric Hospital and Passing Major Mental Health Reform Legislation.
E.C. McDonel, L. Meyer, R. DeLiberty
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 19(3/4): 239-264
1996
Personal Networks and Anomie: Exploring the Sources and Significance of Gender Composition.
Sociological Focus 28(3): 261-282
1995
The Impact of Organizational Factors on Mental Health Professionals' Involvement With Families.
Psychiatric Services 48: 921-927
1997
Gendered Perceptions of Dependency in Discussions of Mental Illness.
Journal of Health & Social Behavior 38(December): 387-402
1997
Can We Conceptualize and Measure Continuity of Care in Individual Episodes? The Case of Mental Health Services in Puerto Rico.
M. Alegría, B.A. Pescosolido, D. Santos, M. Vera
Sociological Focus 30(2): 113-129
1997
Saying Goodbye to Midwest State: Notes on Leavetaking and Institutions.
C. Brooks Gardner and W.P. Gronfein
Perspectives on Social Problems 10: 249-266
1998
Developing a Public Mental Health Report Card: The Hoosier Assurance Plan Provider Profile Report Card,
Managed Care Quarterly 6(1): 1-7
1998
How People Get Into Mental Health Services: Stories of Choice, Coercion, and 'Muddling Through' from 'First-Timers.'
B.A. Pescosolido, C. Brooks Gardner, K.M. Lubell
Social Science and Medicine 46(2): 275-286
1998
Substitution of Physicians and Other Providers in Outpatient Mental Health Care.
1998
Social Networks and Patterns of Use Among the Poor with Mental Health Problems in Puerto Rico.
B.A. Pescosolido, E.R. Wright, M. Alegría, M. Vera
1998
Help Seeking for Mental Health Care Among Poor Puerto Ricans: Problem Recognition, Service Use, and Type of Provider,
M. Vera, M. Alegría, D.H. Freeman, Jr., R. Robles, B. Pescosolido, M. Peña
1998
The Formal Mental Health Care Burden Among Recently Deinstitutionalized Patients
Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 25(3): 346-356
1998
Decisions and Justifications by Community Mental Health Providers About Hypothetical Ethical Dilemmas.
D.V. Perkins, B.L. Hudson, D.M. Gray, and M. Stewart
Psychiatric Services 49(10): 1317-1322
1998
The Social Network Context of Caregiving in Mental Illness.
Research Community and Mental Health 9: 227-250
1998
Public Conceptions of Mental Illness: Labels, Causes, Dangerousness and Social Distance,
B. Link, J. Phelan, M. Bresnahan, A. Stueve, and B.A. Pescosolido
American Journal of Public Health 89(9): 1328-1333
1999
The Public's View of the Competence, Dangerousness, and Need for Legal Coercion Among Persons with Mental Illness,
B.A. Pescosolido, J. Monahan, B. Link, A. Stueve, and S. Kikuzawa
American Journal of Public Health 89(9): 1339-1345
1999
The Effects of Hospital Closure on Mental Health Workers: An Overview of Employment, Mental and Physical Health, and Attitudinal Outcomes,
D.J. Mesch, J.H. McGrew, B.A. Pescosolido, and D. Haugh
Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 26(3): 305-317
1999
The Changing Hopes, Worries and Community Supports of Individuals Moving from a Closing Long-Term Care Facility.
B.A. Pescosolido, E.R. Wright, and K. Lutfey.
*Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research *26(3): 276-288
1999
'Stakeholder' Attitudes Over Time Toward the Closing of a State Hospital.
B.A. Pescosolido, E.R. Wright, and S. Kikuzawa
Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 26(3): 318-328
1999
Public Conceptions of Mental Illness in 1950 and 1996: What is Mental Illness and is it to be Feared?
J.C. Phelan, B.G. Link, A. Stueve, and B.A. Pescosolido
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41(2): 188-207
2000
Responses to 'Nervous Breakdowns' in America over a 40-year Period: Mental Health Policy Implications.
R. Swindle, K. Heller, B.A. Pescosolido, and S. Kikuzawa
American Psychologist 55(7): 740-749
2000
Of Fear and Loathing: The Role of 'Disturbing Behavior,' Labels, and Causal Attributions in Shaping Public Attitudes Toward People with Mental Illness,
J.K. Martin, B.A. Pescosolido, and S.A. Tuch
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41(2): 208-223
2000
Nature, Nurture, Neither, Nor?: Black-White Differences in Beliefs about the Causes and Appropriate Treatment of Mental Illness.
J. Schnittker, J. Freese, and B. Powell
2000
Gender and Reactions to Psychological Problems: An Examination of Social Tolerance and Perceived Dangerousness.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41(2): 224-240
2000
Closing of a State Hospital: An Overview and Framework for a Case Study,
J.H. McGrew, E.R. Wright, B.A. Pescosolido
Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 26(3): 236-245
1999
The Closing of Central State Hospital: Long-Term Outcomes for Persons with Severe Mental Illness,
J.J. McGrew, E.R. Wright, B.A. Pescosolido, and E.C. McDonel
Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 26(3): 246-261
1999
Fiscal Outcomes of the Closing of Central State Hospital: An Analysis of the Costs to State Government,
Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 26(3): 262-275
1999
The Family Experience of Deinstitutionalization: Insights from the Closing of Central State Hospital.
E.R. Wright, G. Avirappattu, and J.E. Lafuze.
Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 26(3): 289-304
1999
Health and Self-Care Practices of Persons with Schizophrenia.
Psychiatric Services 50(6): 827-829
1999
Ambient Sound Levels in a State Psychiatric Hospital,
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing XIII (3): 117-126
1999
How Do People Come to Use Mental Health Services? Current Knowledge and Changing Perspectives.
B.A. Pescosolido & C.A. Boyer.
1999
The Social Dynamics of Responding to Mental Health Problems: Past, Present and Future Challenges to Understanding Individuals' Use of Services,
B.A. Pescosolido, C.A. Boyer, & K.M. Lubell.
1999
The Dimensionality of Stigma: A Comparison of its Impact on the Self of Persons with HIV/AIDS and Cancer,
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41(March): 50-67
2000
Deinstitutionalization, Social Rejection, and the Self-Esteem of Former Mental Patients,
E.R. Wright, W.P. Gronfein, & T.J. Owens
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41(March): 68-90
2000
Poverty and Child Emotional and Behavioral Problems: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Processes and Effects.
J.D. McLeod & J.M. Nonnemaker
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41(2): 137-161
2000
The American Health Care System: Entering the Twenty-first Century with High Risk, Major Challenges, and Great Opportunities.
B.A. Pescosolido & C.A. Boyer.
2001
Rethinking Models of Health and Illness Behavior.
2000
Determinants of Antidepressant Treatment Compliance: Implications for Policy.
M. Tai-Seale, T.W. Croghan, & R. Obenchain
Medical Care Research and Review 57(4): 491-512
2000
The Profession of Medicine and the Public: Examining Americans' Changing Confidence in Physician Authority from the Beginning of the 'Health Care Crisis' to the Era of Health Care Reform.
B.A. Pescosolido, S.A. Tuch, & J.K. Martin
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 42(March): 1-16
2001
The Controversy of Increased Spending for Antidepressants.
2001
The Role of Social Networks in the Lives of Persons with Disabilities.
2000
A Family Network-Based Model of Access to Child Mental Health Services.
E.J. Costello, B.A. Pescosolido, A. Angold, & B.J. Burns
Research in Community and Mental Health 9: 165-190
1998
The Web of Group Affiliations Revisited: Social Life, Postmodernism, and Sociology.
B.A. Pescosolido & B.A. Rubin
American Sociological Review 65(February): 52-76
2000
Predicting Work Outcomes and Service Use in Supported Employment Services for Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities.
C.J. Jones, D.V. Perkins, & D.L. Born.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 25(1): 53-59
2001
Managing a Forensic Diversion Program in the PES.
A.D. Schmetzer & M.J. Trent.
Journal of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry 7(2): 29-31
2001
Social Status Determinants of Control in Individuals' Accounts of Their Mental Illness.
Social Science and Medicine 55:949-961
2002
Sorry, I Forgot: The Role of Recall Error in Longitudinal Personal Network Studies.
E.R. Wright & B.A. Pescosolido
Social Networks & Health 8: 113-129
2002
Risk Adjustment in the Hoosier Assurance Plan: Impact on Providers.
R.N. DeLiberty, F.L. Newman, & E.O. Ward
Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 28(3): 301-318
2001
Update on the Status of Former Central State Hospital Patients.
2002
Pastors' Perceptions of Mental Disorders.
J.E. Lafuze, D.V. Perkins, & G.A. Avirappattu
Psychiatric Services 53(7): 900-901
2002
Case Manager Perspectives on Assertive Community Treatment: Critical Ingredients, Clinical Ingredients, and Variations in Implementation.
J. McGrew, B.A. Pescosolido, & E.R. Wright
Psychiatric Services 54: 370-376
2003
American Attitudes Toward and Willingness to Use Psychiatric Medications.
T.W. Croghan, M. Tomlin, B.A. Pescosolido, J. Schnittker, J.K. Martin, K. Lubell, & R. Swindle
*The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease *191(3): 166-174
2003
The Effect of Chronic Illness on the Psychological Health of Family Members.
The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 6: 13-22
2003
The Role of Social Networks in Health, Illness, Disease and Healing: The Accepting Present, The Forgotten Past, and the Dangerous Potential For A Complacent Future.
B.A. Pescosolido & J.A. Levy.
Social Networks and Health 8: 3-25
2002
The Effect of Organizational Climate on the Climate Care of Patients With Mental Health Problems.
E.R. Wright, B. Linde, N.L. Rau, M. Gayman, & T. Viggiano
Journal of Emergency Nursing 29(4): 314-321
2003
The Public's Opinions of Physicians: Do Perceived Choice and Exercised Choice Matter?
M. Tai-Seale & B.A. Pescosolido
The American Journal of Managed Care 9: 631-638
2003
The View From Two Worlds: The Convergence of Social Network Reports Between Mental Health Clients and Their Ties.
B.A. Pescosolido & E.R. Wright
Social Science and Medicine 58: 1795-1806
2004
Public Attitudes Toward the Use of Psychiatric Medications for Children.
J.D. McLeod, B.A. Pescosolido, D.T. Takeuchi, & T.F. White.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45: 53-67
2004
Performance Assessment in Community Mental Health Care and At-Risk Populations.
Health Care Financing Review 26:1 75-84
2004
Misgivings of Medicine?: African Americans' Skepticism of Psychiatric Medication.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44: 506-524
2003
Cultural Authority and the Sovereignty of American Medicine: The Role of Networks, Class and Community.
B.A. Pescosolido & J.K. Martin
The Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 29 (Nos. 4-5, August - October): 735-756
2004
Are African Americans Really Less Willing to Use Health Care?
J. Schnittker, B.A. Pescosolido, & T.W. Croghan
Social Problems 52(2): 255-271
2005
Medical Students' Attitudes Toward Mental Disorders Before and After a Psychiatric Rotation.
Academic Psychiatry 29: 357-361
2005
Building a Model to Understand Youth Service Access: The Gateway Provider Model.
A.R. Stiffman, B.A. Pescosolido, & L.J. Cabassa
Mental Health Services Research 6(4): 189-198
2005
Of Pride and Prejudice: The Role of Sociology and Social Networks in Integrating the Health Sciences.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 47(September): 189-208
2006
The Construction of Fear: Americans' Preferences for Social Distance From Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Problems.
J.K. Martin, B.A. Pescosolido, S. Olafsdottir, & J.D. McLeod
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48(March): 50-67
2007
Culture, Children, and Mental Health Treatment: Special Section on the National Stigma Study- Children.
Psychiatric Services 58(5): 611-612
2007
Stigmatizing Attitudes and Beliefs About Treatment and Psychiatric Medications for Children and Mental Illness.
B.A. Pescosolido, D.L. Fettes, J.K. Martin, J.D. McLeod, & P.S. Jensen
Psychiatric Services 58(5): 613-618
2007
Perceived Dangerousness of Children with Mental Health Problems and Support for Coerced Treatment.
B.A. Pescosolido, D.L. Fettes, J.K. Martin, J. Monahan, & J.D. McLeod
Psychiatric Services 58(5): 619-625
2007
Public Knowledge, Beliefs, and Treatment Preferences Concerning Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
J.D. McLeod, D.L. Fettes, P.S. Jensen, B.A. Pescosolido, & J.K. Martin
Psychiatric Services 58(5): 626-631
2007
Comparison of Public Attributions, Attitudes, and Stigma in Regard to Depression Among Children and Adults.
B.L. Perry, B.A. Pescosolido, J.K. Martin, J.D. McLeod, & P.S. Jensen
Psychiatric Services 58(5) 632-635
2007
Mental Illness Careers in an Era of Change.
E.K. Pavalko, C.M. Harding, and B.A. Pescosolido
Social Problems 54(4): 504-522
2007
Public Knowledge and Assessment of Child Mental Health Problems: Findings from the National Stigma Study-Children.
B.A. Pescosolido, P. Jensen, J.K. Martin, B. Perry, S. Olafsdottir, & D. Fettes
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 47(3): 339-349
2008
Cross-Cultural Aspects of the Stigma of Mental Illness,
B.A. Pescosolido, S. Olafsdottir, J.K. Martin, & J.S. Long.
2008
Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Stigma: A Framework Integrating Normative Influences on Stigma (FINIS).
B.A. Pescosolido, J.K. Martin, A. Lang, & S. Olafsdottir
Social Science and Medicine 67: 431-440
2008
Similar Pressures, Different Contexts: Public Attitudes Toward Government Intervention for Health Care in 21 Nations.
S. Kikuzawa, S. Olafsdottir, & B.A. Pescosolido.
*Journal of Health and Social Behavior *49(December); 385-399
2008
Under the Influence of Genetics: How Transdisciplinarity Leads Us to Rethink Social Pathways to Illness.
B.A. Pescosolido, B.L. Perry, J.L. Long, J.K. Martin, J.I. Nurnberger, & V. Hesselbrock
American Journal of Sociology 114(Suppl.): S171-S201
2008
What Do American Adults Think of Children's Mental Health Problems? Findings and Lessons From the First National Study.
B.A. Pescosolido & J.K. Martin
2009
Drawing the Line: The Cultural Cartography of Utilization Recommendations for Mental Health Problems.
S. Olafsdottir & B.A. Pescosolido.
*Journal of Health and Social Behavior *50(2): 228-244
2009
Unexamined Discourse: The Outcomes Movement as a Shift from Internal Medical Assessment to Health Communication.
B.A. Pescosolido, T. Croghan, & J. Howell.
2009
Review: *Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization. By George Weisz.*
American Journal of Sociology114(1): 236-238
2008
'A Disease Like Any Other'? A Decade of Change in Public Reactions to Schizophrenia, Depression, and Alcohol Dependence.
B.A. Pescosolido, J.K. Martin, J.S. Long, T.R. Medina, J.C. Phelan, & B.G. Link
American Journal of Psychiatry 167(11): 1321-1330
2010
Functional Specificity in Discussion Networks: The Influence of general and Problem-Specific Networks on Health Outcomes.
B.L. Perry & B.A. Pescosolido
2010
The Cultural Turn in Sociology: Can It Help Us Resolve an Age-Old Problem in Understanding Decision-Making for Health Care?
B.A. Pescosolido & S. Olafsdottir
Sociological Forum 25(4): 655-676
2010
The American Health Care System: Beginning the Twenty-First Century with High Resk, Major Challenges, and Great Opportunities.
B.A. Pescosolido & C.A. Boyer.
2010
Understanding the Context and Dynamic Social Processes of Mental Health Treatment.
B.A. Pescosolido & C.A. Boyer.
2010
Responses to the Onset of Mental Health Problems: Issues and Findings from Research on Illness Behaviour and the Use of Health Services.
2010
Children, Culture, and Mental Illness: Public Knowledge and Stigma Toward Childhood Problems.
B.L. Perry & B.A. Pescosolido.
2011
The Sociology of Suicide.
M. Wray, C. Colen, & B.A. Pescosolido
Annual Review of Sociology 37: 505-528
2011
Constructing Illness: How the Public in Eight Western Nations Responds to a Clinical Description of 'Schizophrenia'.
S. Olafsdottir & B.A. Pescosolido
Social Science and Medicine 73: 929-938
2011
Pathways to Care: Narratives of American Indian Adolescents Entering Substance Abuse Treatment.
D.K. Novins, P. Spicer, A. Fickenscher, & B.A. Pescosolido
Social Science and Medicine 74: 2037-2045
2012
Social Network Dynamics and Biographical Disruption: The Case of 'First-Timers' with Mental Illness.
American Journal of Sociology 118(1): 134-175
2012
The Social Dynamics of Respnding to Mental Health Problems.
B.A. Pescosolido, C.A. Boyer, & T.R. Medina.
2013
The Public Stigma of Mental Illness: What Do We Think; What Do We Know; What Can We Prove?
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 54(1): 1-21
2013
The 'Backbone' of Stigma: Identifying the Global Core of Public Prejudice Associated with Mental Illness.
B.A. Pescosolido, T.R. Medina, J.K. Martin, & J.S. Long
American Journal of Public Health 103: 853-860
2013
Beyond Dichotomies: Confronting the Complexity of How and Why Individuals Come or Do Not Come to Mental Health Care.
B.A. Pescosolido & S. Olafsdottir
World Psychiatry 12(3): 269-271
2013
Gender-Specific Gene-Environment Interaction in Alcohol Dependence: The Impact of Daily Life Events and GABRA2.
Behavior Genetics 43(5): 402-414
2013
Stigma, Discrimination, Treatment Effectiveness, and Policy: Public Views About Drug Addiction and Mental Illness.
C.L. Barry, E.E. McGinty, B.A. Pescosolido, & H.H. Goldman
Psychiatric Services 65(10): 1269-1272
2014
Portraying Mental Illness and Drug Addiction as Treatable Health Conditions: Effects of A Randomized Experiment on Stigma and Discrimination.
E.E. McGinty, H.H. Goldman, B.A. Pescosolido, & C.L. Barry
Social Science & Medicine 126: 73-85
2015
Social Network Activation: The Role of Health Discussion Partners in Recovery from Mental Illness.
B.L. Perry & B.A. Pescosolido
Social Science & Medicine 125: 116-128
2015
Erving Goffman: The Moral Career of Stigma and Mental Illness.
2015
Linking the Social Brain to the Social World through Network Connections.
2015
The Theory of Industrial Society and Cultural Schemata: Does the 'Cultural Myth of Stigma' Underlie the WHO Schizophrenia Paradox?
B.A. Pescosolido, J.K. Martin, S. Olafsdottir, J.S. Long, K Kafadar, T.R. Medina
American Journal of Sociology 121(3): 783-825
2015
The Beginning of the End? Deploying Rigorous Research in Real-World Settings to Reduce Stigma.
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 55(5): 353-354
2016
At the Intersection of Lay and Professional Social Networks: How Community Ties Shape Perceptions of Mental Health Treatment Providers.
B.L. Perry, E. Pullen, B.A. Pescosolido
Global Mental Health 3, e3, 17pp.
2016