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Faculty

Kathryn Elizabeth (Beth) Angell, Ph.D.

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Biography

Beth Angell is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration and a Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Health Administration Studies and the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy. During 2008-2009, she will be on leave from SSA while serving as Associate Professor at the School of Social Work; an Associate Member of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research; and a Faculty Affiliate with the Center for Criminal Justice and Mental Health at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Professor Angell's research concerns the community treatment of individuals with serious mental illness, particularly in assertive community treatment and intensive case management models.  Within these settings, her work has examined the factors contributing to impoverished social relationships among persons with schizophrenia; methods used by practitioners to address adherence problems in intensive or involuntary treatment settings; the nature of client-provider relationships in intensive mental health treatment; stigma and serious mental illness; and the treatment of individuals with dual involvement in the mental health and criminal justice systems.

Dr. Angell is currently involved in several collaborative research projects: a mixed-method evaluation of a prison reentry program for persons with serious mental illness, funded by the Chicago Community Trust; a study aimed at understanding the role of fairness and respect (procedural justice) in the outcomes of interactions between police officers and people with mental illness, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health; and an implementation study of the adoption of Crisis Intervention Teams within the Chicago Police Department, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.

Professor Angell received her M.S.S.W. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received both a SAMHSA clinical training fellowship and a National Research Service Award for individual predoctoral fellows from the National Institute of Mental Health. She has practiced in outpatient mental health programs providing assertive community treatment to adults with serious mental illness. Prior to her appointment at SSA, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Publications
  • Watson, A.C., Angell, B., Morabito, M., & Robinson, N. In press. Defying negative expectations: Dimensions of fair and respectful treatment by police officers as perceived by people with mental illness. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research.
  • Rao, D., Angell, B., Corrigan, P., and Lam, C. In press. Stigma in the workplace: Employer attitudes about people living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Chicago. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Angell, B. 2008. "Behavioral theory." Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition, eds. T. Mizrahi & L. Davis. New York: Oxford University Press and NASW.
  • Tsang, H., Angell, B., Corrigan, P., Lee,Y.T., Shi, K., Lam, C.S., Jin, S., & Fung, K.M.T. 2007. A cross-cultural study of employers' concerns about hiring people with psychotic disorder: Implications for recovery. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 42, 723-733.
  • Watson, A.C., & Angell, B. 2007. Applying theories of procedural justice to understanding police interactions with people who have serious mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 58, 787-793.
  • Angell, B., Martinez, N.I., Mahoney, C., & Corrigan, P (2007). Payeeship, financial leverage, and the client-provider relationship. Psychiatric Services, 58, 365-372.
  • Angell, B., & Mahoney, C.A. 2007. Re-conceptualizing the case management relationship in intensive treatment: A study of staff perceptions and experiences. Administration and Policy in Mental Health & Mental Health Services Research, 34, 172-188.
  • Angell, B., Mahoney, C.A., & Martinez, N.I. 2006. Promoting treatment adherence in assertive community treatment. Social Service Review, 80(3), 485-526.
  • Angell, B. 2006. Measuring strategies used by mental health providers to encourage medication adherence. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 33, 53-72.
  • Monahan, J., Redlich, A.D., Swanson, J., Robbins, P.C., Appelbaum, P.S., Petrila, J., Steadman, H.J., Swartz, M.D., Angell, B., & McNiel, D.E. 2005. Use of leverage to improve adherence to psychiatric treatment in the community. Psychiatric Services, 56, 37-44.
  • Angell, B., Cooke, A., & Kovac, K. 2005. "First-person accounts of stigma." In On the Stigma of Mental Illness: Practical Strategies for Research and Social Change, ed. P. Corrigan, 69-98.Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Watson, A.C., Corrigan, P.W., & Angell, B. 2005. What motivates public support for legally mandated mental health treatment? Social Work Research, 29, 87-94.
  • Angell, B. 2003. Contexts of social relationship development among assertive community treatment clients. Mental Health Services Research. 5, 13-25
  • Angell, B., & Test, M.A. 2002. "Clinical and Environmental Predictors of Social Functioning in Young Adults with Schizophrenia." Schizophrenia Bulletin, 28, 259-271.
  • Sands, R.G., & Angell, B. 2002. "Social Workers as Collaborators on Interagency and Interdisciplinary Teams." In K. Bentley (Ed.), Social Work Practice in Mental Health. Brooks/Cole.
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