Psychiatry

    Douglas A. Bigelow, Ph.D.

    Selected Publications:

  1. Bigelow, DA, Cutler, DL, Moore, McComb MD & Leung, P. (1988). Characteristics of hard to place patients. Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 39, 181-185.
  2. Bigelow, DA, & McFarland, BH. (1989). Comparative costs and impacts of Canadian and American payment systems for mental health services. Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 40(8), 805-808.
  3. Bigelow, DA. (1989). State data systems and research opportunities. In Bloom, JD, Faulkner, LR, & Cutler, DL (Eds.). Chapter 9. The university and public psychiatry in Oregon. New Directions for Mental Health Services, 44, San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass.
  4. Bigelow, DA, & McFarland, BH. (1989). Comparative costs and impacts of Canadian and American payment systems for mental health services. Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 40(8), 805-808.
  5. Bigelow, DA, Bloom, JD, & Williams, MH. (1990). Expenditures associated with the management and treatment of insanity acquittees under a Psychiatric Security Review Board system. Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 41, 613-614.
  6. Bigelow, DA, Gareau, MJ, & Young, DJ. (1990). A quality of life interview for chronically mentally disabled people. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 14, 94-98.
  7. McFarland, BH & Bigelow, DA. (1990). Commentary: can we afford the costs of U.S. health payment systems? The Psychiatric Times: Medicine & Behavior, 7(9), 31-32.
  8. Bloom, JD, Williams, MH, & Bigelow, DA. (1991). Monitored conditional release of persons found not guilty by reason of insanity. American Journal of Psychiatry, 148, 444-448.
  9. Bigelow, DA & Young, DJ. (1991).
  10. Effectiveness of a case management program. Community Mental Health Journal, 27, 115-123.

  11. Bigelow, DA, McFarland, BH, Gareau, MJ, & Young, DJ.(1991). Implementation and effectiveness of a bed reduction project. Community Mental Health Journal, 27, 125-133.
  12. Bigelow, DA, McFarland, BH, & Olson, MM. (1991). Quality of life of community mental health program clients: validating a measure. Community Mental Health Journal, 227, 43-55.
  13. Bloom, JD, Williams, MH, & Bigelow, DA. (1992). The involvement of schizophrenic insanity acquittees in the mental health and criminal justice systems. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 15, 591-604.
  14. Cutler, DL, Bigelow, DA, & McFarland, BH. (1992). The cost of fragmented mental health financing: is it worth it? Community Mental Health Journal, 28. 121-133.
  15. Buckley, R & Bigelow, DA. (1992). The multi-service network: reaching the unserved multi-problem individual. Community Mental Health Journal, 28, 43-59.
  16. Sladen-Dew, N, Bigelow, DA, Buckley, R, & Borneman, S. (1993). The Greater Vancouver Mental Health Society - a model of caring for the person with schizophrenia in the community. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 308-314.
  17. McFarland, BH & Bigelow, DA. (1993). Financial aspects of the Psychiatric Security Review Board. In Bloom, J & Williams, M (Eds.). The Management and Treatment of Insanity Acquittees: A Model for the 1990's. Progress in Psychiatry Series. Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, Inc.
  18. Torrey, E, Bigelow, D, & Sladen-Dew, N. (1993). Quality and cost of service for individuals with serious mental illnesses in British Columbia compared to the states. Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 44, 493-450.
  19. Barker, S, Barron, N, McFarland, BH, Bigelow, D, & Carnahan, T. (1994). A community ability scale for chronically mentally ill clients, Part II. Community Mental Health Journal, 30 (5), 459-472.
  20. Barker, S, Barron, N, McFarland, BH, & Bigelow, D. (1994). A community ability scale for chronically mentally ill clients, Part I, Reliability and Validity. Community Mental Health Journal, 30 (4),363-384.
  21. Bigelow, DA & McFarland, BH. (1994). Financing Canada’s mental health care. In Bachrach, LL, Wasylenki, D, and Goering, P (Eds.). Mental Health Services in Canada: New Directions for Mental Health Services , Number 61. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass.
  22. Bigelow, DA, Sladen-Dew, N, & Russell, J. (1994). Meeting the challenges of serving persons with severe and persistent mental illness in a major Canadian city. In Bachrach, LL, Wasylenki, D, and Goering, P (Eds.). Mental Health Services in Canada: New Directions for Mental Health Services , Number 61. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass.
  23. McFarland, BH, Bigelow, DA, Smith, J, Hornbrook, M, Mofidi, A, & Payton P. (1995). Capitated payment system for involuntary clients. Health Affairs, 14 (3), 220, 186-196.
  24. McFarland, BH, Smith, J, Bigelow, D, & Mofidi, A. (1995). Unit costs of community mental health services. Administration & Policy in Mental Health Journal, 23 (1), 27-42.
  25. McEwan, K. & Bigelow, D. (1997). Using a logic model to focus health services on population health. (A research and practice note.) Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 12, 167-174.
  26. McFarland, B. & Bigelow, D. Community mental health program efficiency. (1997) Administration & Policy in Mental Health, 24, 459-474.
  27. Bigelow, D. (1998). Supportive homes for life versus treatment way-stations. Community Mental Health Journal, 4, 403- 405.
  28. Bigelow, DA, Bloom, JD, Williams, M. & McFarland, BH. (1999). An administrative model for close monitoring and managing high risk individuals. Behavioral Sciences & The Law, 17, 227-235.
  29. Falk, N., McFarland, B.H. & Bigelow, D. Distribution of psychiatric services in Canada. Poster session. Fifth workshop on costs and assessment in psychiatry, May 10, 2000. University of Chicago.
  30. Bloom, JD, Williams M & Bigelow, DA. (2000). The forensic psychiatric system in the United States. International Journal of Law & Psychiatry. 23, 605-613.
  31. Wilson W, Bigelow D. Homosexuality. Emedicine Journal [serial online]. (2001). Available at: http://www.emedicine.com/med.3359.htm
  32. Grover, J, Gabriel, R, Bigelow, D, McFarland, B, McCamant, L, Barron, N. (Submitted) Financing wraparound services for publicly funded substance abuse treatment under managed care. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.
  33. Bigelow, DA, Sekiya, U, Kinzie, JD, and Boehnlein, JM.(Submitted). Approaches to definition and measurement of quality of life for Cambodian refugees with PTSD. Transcultural Psychiatry.
  34. McFarland, BH, Bigelow, DA, Zani, B, Newsom, J. & Kaplan, M. (submitted). Disparities in complementary and alternative medicine use in Canada and the United States. American Journal of Public Health.
  35. Bigelow, DA, Wilson, WH, McFarland, BH & Smith, J. (In prep.) A test of food distribution principles.
  36. Cutler DL, Bigelow DA, Collins V, Jackson C & Field G. (2002). Why are severely mentally ill persons in jail and prison? In Backlar, P & Cutler DL. Ethics in community mental health care. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
  37. Bigelow DA, McFarland BH, Laws KM, et al. (In prep). Access to mental health services for medicaid substance abuse treatment clients under managed care.
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