Publications

In the past 10 years, Dr. Forster has published over 30 psychiatric/medical journal articles. His research interests include PTSD, psychiatric emergency services, suicide risk assessment, and mental health care in the managed care environment. He has published the following articles:

Shumway, M., Unick G., McConnell, W., Catalano, R. & Forster, P. (2004) Measuring Community Preferences for Public Mental Health Services: Pilot Test of a Mail Survey Method. Community Mental Health Journal, 40(4), 281-295.

Catalano, R., McConnell, W., Forster, P., McFarland, B., & Thornton, D. (2003). Psychiatric Emergency Services and the System of Care. Psychiatric Services, 54, 351-355.

Forster, P. (2002). Managing the Agitated Psychotic Patient: An Update. Emergency Psychiatry, 8(2), 61-64.

Mathews, C.A., Glidden, D., Murray, S., Forster, P., & Hargreaves, W. (2002). The Effect on Treatment Outcomes of Assigning Patients to Ethnically Focused Inpatient Psychiatric Units. Psychiatric Services, 53(7), 830-835.

Forster, P.& Wu, L. (2002). Assessment and Treatment of the Suicidal Patient in an Emergency Setting. In M.H. Allen (Ed.), Emergency Psychiatry, (pp. 75-113). American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Allen, Michael H., Glenn W. Currier, Peter L. Forster, and Donald Hughes, "Treatment of Agitated Acute Psychosis," The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2000. 3:2.

Forster, Peter, "Acute crisis treatment of the dual-diagnosis patient: the mental health and substance-abuse services interface," Emergency Psychiatry in a Changing World, 1999: 355-358.

Forster, Peter, "Emergency Psychiatry and Social Control," Emergency Psychiatry in a Changing World, 1999: 91-94.

De Clercq, Michel, Antonio Andreoli, Suzanne Lamarre, and Peter Forster, Emergency Psychiatry in a Changing World, (Elsevier) 1999.

Catalano, R, W McConnell, P Forster, B McFarland, D Thornton, "Temporal Variation in the Incidence of Treated Psychiatric Emergencies," Psychiatric Bulletin, (in submission).

Forster, Peter, Robert Buckley, and Molly A. Phelps, "Phenomenology and Treatment of Psychotic Disorders in the Psychiatric Emergency Service," The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1999. 22:4, 735-754.

Forster, Peter, Cleve Cavness, and Molly A. Phelps, "Staff Training Decreases Use of Seclusion and Restraint in an Acute Psychiatric Hospital," Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 1999. 13:5, 269-271.

Forster, Peter, and David Roberts "Tennessee Managed Care Effort Raises Questions about For-Profit HMO's," Emergency Psychiatry, 1999. 5:3, 15-17.

Forster Peter, and David Roberts, "Involuntary Outpatient Commitment: Will it Stop the Revolving Door?" Emergency Psychiatry, 1999. 5:2, 21-23.

Forster, Peter, DeRanieri, Albert, "Mental Health Services in San Francisco," San Francisco Medicine. April 1999.

Forster, Peter, and Molly Phelps. "Short-term Predictors of Suicide: Assessment of Patients with Suicidal Ideation Presenting to Psychiatric Crisis Centers," (In submission: Psychiatric Services), 1999.

Shumway, Martha, William McConnell and Peter Forster. "Value Assessment for Community Psychiatry.", 1998.

Forster, Peter, "Acute or Crisis Treatment of the Dual Diagnosis Patient: The Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Interface," in Michel DeClercq (ed.) International Association for Emergency Psychiatry Monograph (in Fr: Masson Press & in Eng: Elsevier Science), 1998.

Forster, Peter, "Emergency Psychiatry and Social Control," in Michel DeClercq (ed.) International Association for Emergency Psychiatry Monograph (in Fr: Masson Press & in Eng: Elsevier Science), 1998.

Forster Peter, and David Roberts, "Comprehensive Crisis Triage Centers: Do the Ends Justify the Means?" Emergency Psychiatry, 1998. 4:2, 13-15.

Forster, Peter, Art Hom, Jon R. King. "Taking Stock in the Era of Crises: The Past, Present, and Potential of Psychiatric Emergency Services," International Association for Emergency Psychiatry Monograph (in Fr: Masson Press & in Eng: Elsevier Science), 1998.

Forster, Peter, "Taking Stock in the Era of Policy: The Origins, Present and Potential of Psychiatric Emergency Services," in Emergency Psychiatry and Mental Health Policy: An International Point of View, 1998

Phelps, Molly, and Peter Forster. "Assessment of Psychotic Symptoms: Distinguishing Between Functional and Medically-Induced Psychosis," (In submission: Crisis Intervention and Time-Limited Treatment), 1998.

Forster, Peter and David Roberts, "Comprehensive Crisis Triage Centers: Do the Ends Justify the Means?" Emergency Psychiatry, 1998. 2(3), 59-60.

Bowden, CL, KT Brady, PL Forster, FK Goodwin, and M Tohen. "Current Concepts in Treating Bipolar Disorder." Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, April 1996, 57(4): suppl 1-12.

Prasad, Shanti, and Peter Forster, "Consumers and Managed Care Ally to Oppose Involuntary Treatment," Emergency Psychiatry, 1996. 2(1), 5-14.

Forster, Peter, and Shanti Prasad, "Managed Care and Acute Psychiatry: National Update," Emergency Psychiatry, 1996. 2(2), 3-4.

Forster, Peter, Frank Schoenfeld, Charles Marmar, and Ariel Janna Lang "Lithium for Irritability in PTSD," Journal of Traumatic Stress, 1995. 8(1), 143-149.

Forster, Peter, King, Jon, "Medications in Emergencies: In Reply" Psychiatric Services, 1995. 46(6), 624.

Phelps, Molly and Peter Forster. "Mental Health Fights Back Against Managed Care," Emergency Psychiatry, 1995. 1(4), 80-81.

Forster, Peter, King, Jon "Fluoxetine for Premature Ejaculation," American Journal of Psychiatry, 1994. 151(10), 1523.

Forster, Peter, "Definitive Treatment of Patients with Serious Mental Disorders in an Emergency Service (Part I)"; Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 1994. 45:9, 867-869.

Forster, Peter, " Definitive Treatment of Patients with Serious Mental Disorders in an Emergency Service (Part II)"; Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 1994. 45:12, 1177-1178.

Williams, Mary L., Peter L. Forster, George D. McCarthy, William A. Hargreaves, "Managing Case Management: What makes it work?," Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Winter 1994.

Forster, Peter (ed). Emergency Psychiatry issue. Psychiatric Annals, November, 1994.

Forster, Peter, "Accurate Assessment of Short-term Suicide Risk in a Crisis," Psychiatric Annals, 1994. 24:11, 571-578.

Forster, Peter, "Traumatic Stress Reactions and the Psychiatric Emergency," Psychiatric Annals, 1994. 24:11, 603-609.

Forster, Peter, "Book Reviews: Full Catastrophe Living," San Francisco Medicine, June 1993.

Forster, Peter, Jon R. King, "Psychiatric Emergency Services in the 21st Century," Psychiatric Times, December 1993.

Forster, Peter, "Acute Reactions to Community Trauma and Disaster," in Linda Austin (ed). Clinical Response to Community Trauma and Disaster, APA Press: Washington, D.C. 1992.

Forster, Peter, "Positive Stress." San Francisco Medicine, 1991.

Forster, Peter, and Charles Marmar, "Benefits and Risks of Benzodiazepines in Acute Stress Reactions," in Peter Roy-Byrne (ed). The Role of Benzodiazepines in the Management of Anxiety Disorders, APA Press 1990.

Forster, Peter, "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Research Explores Effects of Trauma, Violence, and Vulnerability." San Francisco Medicine, 1989.