Sarah K. Brown, DrPH

The PHQ-9 may be an effective asset in a clinician’s toolkit, along with their clinical judgment and therapeutic alliance, to ensure treatment planning and outcome tracking is personal to each patient.

Patients with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia are more likely to report greater impairment in general functioning as a result of trauma, which is why trauma-informed care is so important.

Successful, trauma-informed care for patients with serious mental illness requires providers to assess, acknowledge, and treat trauma.