Iwao OSHIMA, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mental Health,
Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo
Associate Professor, Department of Mental Health,
Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo
Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine,
University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Phone +81-3-5841-3612, Fax +81-3-5841-3392
E-mail i-oshima@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
1981-1986 Ph.D. in Health Sciences, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
1979-1981 Master of Health Sciences, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
1979-1981 Bachelor of Health Sciences, University of Tokyo, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
2001-2002 Visiting Scholar of Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research, Dept. Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
1996- Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Mental Health, Tokyo, Japan
1993-1996 Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Department of Social Welfare, Tokyo, Japan
1990-1993 Section Director, National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Mental Health Administration Studies, Tokyo, Japan
1986-1990 Senior Researcher, National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Mental Health Administration Studies, Tokyo, Japan
1991-2002 A Board Member and Managing Director, Zenkaren Mental Health and Welfare Research Institute, Zenkaren (Japan NAMI; National Federation of Families with the Mental Ill), Tokyo, Japan
1996- A board member, Japanese Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
1994-2003 Editor, Japanese Journal of Hospital and Community Psychiatry
1994-2003 A board member, the Japanese Hospital and Community Psychiatry Association
1991- Japanese Hospital and Community Psychiatry Association
1982- Japanese Society of Public Health
1981- Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology
1981- Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare
Oshima I, Cho N, Takahashi K: Effective components of a nationwide case management program in Japan for individuals with severe mental illness. Community Mental Health Journal 40: 525-537, 2004
Oshima I, Kuno E: Living Arrangements of Individuals with Schizophrenia in Japan: Impact of Community-Based Mental Health Services. International Journal of Social Psychiatry (in press)
Oshima I, Mino Y, Inomata Y: Institutionalism and schizophrenia in Japan -Social environments and negative symptoms: Nationwide survey of in-patients. Br J Psychiatry 183: 50-56, 2003.
Oshima I, Ito J: Case Management Systems in the U.S. : A Case Study of Seven Cities.Japanese J Psychiatric Nursing 29: 70-74, 2002
Okawa N, Oshima I, Cho N, Makino H, Oka I, Ikebuchi E, Ito J: Development of 'Self-Efficacy for Community Life Scale' for People with Schizophrenia: Its Reliability and Validity. Seishin Igaku 43: 727-735, 2001 (In Japanese)
Oshima I: Issues and perspectives of community care revolution in 2003 for people with severe mental illnesses. Community Social Work Research 29: 16-24, 2001 (In Japanese)
Oshima I, Cho N: Case management and psychoeducation for the people with schizophrenia: From the perspective of empowerment and normalization. Seishin Igaku 43: 1129-1134, 2001 (In Japanese)
Oshima I, Cho N, Anzai N, Takahashi K: The development of care assessment schedule in the case management guideline for the people with mental disabilities in Japan: reliability and validity of the needs for care scale and handicaps scale. Seishin Igaku 42: 809-817, 2000 (In Japanese)
Oshima I, Cho N, Takahashi K: The process assessment of the case management guideline for the people with mental disabilities in Japan: The results from national field trial. Seishin Igaku 42: 127-136, 2000 (In Japanese)
Mino Y, Oshima I, Tsuda T, Okagami K: No relationship between schizophrenic birth and influenza epidemics in Japan. J Psychiatric Research 34: 133-138, 2000
Mino Y, Oshima I, Okagami, K: Seasonality of birth in patients with mood disorders in Japan. J Affective Disorders 59: 41-46, 2000.
Ichiki M, Kunugi H, Takei N, Murray RM, Baba H, Arai H, Oshima I, Okagami K, Sato T, Hirose T, Nanko S: Intra-uterine physical growth in schizophrenia: evidence confirming excess of premature birth. Psychological Medicine 30:597-604, 2000
Oshima I: Principle and basic usage of case management guidelines for the people with mental disabilities in Japan. Community Mental Health Review 30: 17-21, 1999
Oshima I, Naito K, Tokunaga J: Evaluation of effectiveness of community mental health system in Kawasaki city -A comparison with national statistics. Japanese J Public Health 45: 722-731, 1998 (In Japanese)
Oshima I: Present personal care services for the people with mental disability and issues for the legalization: Home help services and care management. Japanese J Hospital Community Pshychiatry 40(4): 331-337, 1998.
Oshima I, Naito K, Tokunaga J: The living status and health and welfare needs of schizophrenics living alone in Kawasaki Metropolitan City -From the analysis of citywide survey. Japanese J Hospital Community Pshychiatry 41(1): 50-56, 1998.
Oshima I: Assessment of 'quality of services' in community mental health programs: from the perspective of normalization, Quality of Life, and satisfaction of users. Archives of Psychiatric Diagnostics and Clinical Evaluation 9(3): 341-353,1998.
Oshima I, Oketani H: Personal care services in psychiatric group homes: From the outcomes of a nationwide survey for the community mental health services. Japanese Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation 1: 44-52, 1997 (In Japanese)
Oshima I, Naito K, Tokunaga J, Kurita M: Health and welfare need assessment of the mentally disabled living in Kawasaki Metropolitan City -The current problems to be solved in the city and the planning estimated by the assessment. Japanese Bulletin of Social Psychiatry 5(2): 201-213, 1997 (In Japanese)
Oshima I, Yoshizumi A, Inazawa K, Inomata Y, Okagami K: The intention of the community living and the idea of the life style after the discharge expressed by long stay patients: An analysis of a nationwide self-rating survey for long stay schizophrenics in about 40,000 psychiatric beds in Japan. Japanese Journal of Hospital and Community Psychiatry 1996; 38:558-67. (In Japanese)
Oshima I, Yoshizumi A, Inazawa K, et al: The attitudes toward the community living and the determinant factors for the long-stay patients in Japan: The analysis of a nationwide self-rating survey. Seishin Igaku 38: 1248-1256, 1996 (In Japanese)
Ito J, Oshima I. Distribution of EE and its relationship to relapse in Japan. Int J Ment Health Vol 24. pp23-37, 1995
Oshima I, Ito J, Yagihashi M, Okagami K: A study on the scaling methods of Expressed Emotion Scales from the perspective of relapse predictability of schizophrenia. Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica 96: 298-315, 1994.(In Japanese)
Oshima I, Ito J, Yagihashi M, Okagami K: The relationship between Expressed Emotion and daily life functioning of families who take care of the schizophrenics members. Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica 96: 493-512, 1994. (In Japanese)
Oshima I, Okagami K: Psycho-social background of families with long-stay psychiatric patients in Japan: The analysis of the nationwide survey by national federation of families. Seishin Igaku 34: 479-488, 1992 (In Japanese)
Oshima I, Ueda H, Yamazaki Y, Shiiya J: Social perception toward the mentally disabled among general inhabitants who were against building the public psychiatric emergency center in a satellite town of Tokyo. Journal of Mental Health 38: 11-23,1992 (In Japanese)
Oshima I, Inomata Y, Toida S, et al: Possibility to be discharged of long-stay psychiatric patients and their suitable accommodation need in Japan: Nationwide survey of 40,000 psychiatric beds. Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica 93: 582-602, 1991.(In Japanese)
Oshima I: A study on family support system for the mentally disabled from the perspective of its functions and resources. Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica 89: 204-241, 1987.(In Japanese)
Oshima I, Ito J, Taira N: Need for an integrated program of case management and psychoeducation in long stay psychiatric patients in Japan. Kashima H.et al(eds): Schizophrenia. Keio University Symposia for Life Science and Medicine Vol 8, Springer, 2002
Oshima I, Taira N, Maruyama Y(eds): Home Help Services for the people with mental disablement: Principle and practice based on home help guideline. Zenkaren, Tokyo, 2000 (In Japanese)
Takahashi K, Oshima I (eds): Case management for the people with mental disablement: Principle and practice based on case management guideline. Zenkaren, Tokyo, 1999 (In Japanese)
Oshima I, Nakai K.F. The Japanese Mental Health System and Family Movement: History, Present Status, and Research Findings. In Mandiberg, JM (ed): Innovations in Japanese Mental Health Services. pp13-23, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco,1993.
Oshima I (ed): Development of the welfare community construction and mental health facilities. Seiwa Shoten Publishers, Tokyo, 1992 (In Japanese)
Oshima I (ed): Current issues in psychiatric rehabilitation and families with the mental disablement. Yukyu Shobo Publishers, Tokyo, 1990
Okagami K, Oshima I, Arai M (eds): People with mental disablement in Japan. Minerva Publishers, Kyoto, 1988 (In Japanese)