Doris Fuller wrote and reported multiple groundbreaking studies into the ways untreated or undertreated serious mental illness impacts individuals, families and communities.

Doris blogged extensively about mental illness research for the Treatment Advocacy Center and continues to conduct research and write commentary on urgent mental health issues. Her story for the Washington Post about her daughter’s death by suicide was read around the world.

Following is a sample of Doris’s work.

Criminalization 

Overlooked in the Undercounted:
The Role of Mental Illness in Fatal Law Enforcement Encounters

Emptying the New Asylums:
A Beds Capacity Model to Reduce Mental Illness Behind Bars

Psychiatric Bed Capacity

Beyond Beds:
The Vital Role of a Full Continuum of Psychiatric Care
(with Dr. Debra Pinals for NASMHPD)

Released, Relapsed, Rehospitalized:
Length of Stay and Readmission Rates in State Hospitals, A Comparative State Survey

Going, Going, Gone:
Trends and Consequences of Eliminating State Psychiatric Beds

“When should government increase the supply of psychiatric beds?”
Journal of Molecular Psychiatry, July 2017

Mental Illness and Suicide

“My daughter, who lost her battle with mental illness, is still the bravest person I know”
Washington Post, April 2015