Specialties: Mental Health Services/ Psychiatric Epidemiology/ Social Work
Steven P. Segal is a professor of the graduate school at the School of Social Welfare. His research interests include mental health and social policy, research methods, adult residential care, self-help mental health services, violence and mental illness, community mental health, homelessness, social work practice, psychiatric epidemiology, social support systems, social ecology, health policy, and psychiatric emergencies.
I am involved in two ongoing projects, one on the treatment of severe mental illness (SMI) and another on refugee mental health in conflict areas. The Middle East project addresses refugee responses to conflict. The project on SMI covers 30 years of experience including all involvements of 145,000 people with all systems of health, mental health, and corrections in Victoria Australia. Among other questions, analyses can help in understanding the role of outpatient commitment in preventing suicide and help determine the relationship between mental health service strategy, access to medical care, and elevated physical illness morbidity and mortality risk among those with SMI. These studies require programming and statistical skill in analyzing very large data sets. I would be willing to mentor interested students and/or work with other faculty to address these research questions and several others the Australian experience can address. Service work includes Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Welfare of the Family; Loan and Grant Committee of San Francisco Jewish Family and Children's Services. Non-academic interests include hiking and fishing around the world.
