Dr Claire Henderson is Associate Director of Evaluation and Health Services Research for the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for the VA’s New York/New Jersey Region and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She was previously the attending psychiatrist for the Bronx Psychiatric Center Assertive Community Treatment team. She is the PI on a study of Joint Crisis Plans (negotiated advance agreements for care during a future relapse of illness) for people with severe mental illness in Northern Manhattan, funded by the MacArthur Research Network on mandated Community Treatment, in collaboration with the Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies. She was previously PI on a RCT of the same intervention while working in the Department of Health Services Research at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.

Areas of expertise
Mental health services research; randomized trials of complex interventions in mental health care

Selected recent publications
Flood C, Byford S, Henderson C, Leese M, Thornicroft G, Sutherby K, Szmukler G. Joint crisis plans for people with psychosis: economic evaluation of an RCT. British Medical Journal, in press.

Henderson C, Diez Roux AV, Jacobs DR, Kiefe CI, West D, Williams DR. (2005) Neighborhood characteristics, individual-level socioeconomic factors, and depressive symptoms in young adults: the CARDIA study. J Epidemiology and Community Health 59(4):322-328.

Henderson C, Flood C, Leese M, Thornicroft G, Sutherby K, Szmukler G. (2004) Effect of joint crisis plans on use of compulsion in psychiatric treatment: single blind RCT. British Medical Journal 329:136-8.

Henderson C, Liu X, Diez Roux AV, Link BG, Hasin D. (2004) The effects of US state income inequality and alcohol policies on symptoms of depression and alcohol dependence. Social Science and Medicine 58(3):565-575.

Frost-Gaskin M, O’Kelly R, Henderson C, Pacitti R. (2003) A welfare benefits outreach project to users of community mental health services. International J of Social Psychiatry 49(4):251-263.

Henderson C, Howard L, Wilkinson G. (2003) Acknowledgement of psychiatric research funding. British J of Psychiatry 183(10):273-275.

Henderson C, Hales H, Ruggeri M. (2003) Assessment of content validity of the English translation of the Verona Service Satisfaction Scale (VSSS). Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 38(3):142-148.

Henderson C, Thornicroft G, Glover G. (1998) Inequalities in mental health. British J of Psychiatry 173:105-109.