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Taking Stock: Mental Health in the Workplace
Mental illness has a broad reach in the workplace. From corporate boardrooms and your accountant’s desk to the fields of star athletes, this set of diseases can take many forms. It doesn’t discriminate either. Mental illness affects men and women, rich and poor, entry-level staff to senior...
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The NYSPA Report – Medicaid, Behavioral Healthcare, and the 2011 NYS Budget: Taking Stock
There can be no question that 2011 has been a tough budget year all around, including in New York State. The end of the legislative session provides an opportune time to take stock and see where we are. When our new governor, Andrew Cuomo, took office in January, New York State was facing a $10.5...
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The World of Bullying
The topic of bullying is one that has garnered a lot of attention in the last few years. Events like the shooting at Columbine High School, and the tragedies that were the deaths of Pheobe Prince and Tyler Clementi certainly helped move the topic to the front page as opposed to page six. Bullying...
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An Overview of Timothy’s Law: Past, Present, and Future
Like many structural shifts in public policy, it often takes a horrific tragedy to move us to do the right thing. Case in point-Timothy’s Law. Named after Timothy O’Clair, a 12-year old boy who committed suicide shortly before his thirteenth birthday, the law requires that insurance companies...
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Can New York State Healthcare Reforms Advance Recovery?
In 1971, I spent 6 weeks in a Long Island hospital psychiatric ward for severe depression, the beginning of my long and rewarding personal recovery journey. In the ensuing years, I learned hard lessons about the great limitations of traditional treatments and the critical role hope, dignity, work,...
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Developmental Disabilities Nurses: Consultants in Mental Health Settings
There has been recent discussion about health reform and its potential impact in the community setting. With the implementation of a new or changed concept there comes a period of transition. Discussions that include exchanges of ideas to ease the transitional process may become very relevant if...
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From the Publisher: Health Reform Must Not Jeopardize the People We Serve
Budget cutting has become a top priority for virtually all political leaders from the President on down to every Governor, County Executive, and Mayor in the land. As a result, health care reform and the effort to transform America’s behavioral health systems to promote recovery (both of which...
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How Health Care Reform Affects Providers and Consumers
Health Care reform has been vigorously debated. Many have attributed the deficiencies in the health care system to various causes including Lack of Access (48 million citizens without insurance), overuse of unnecessary, high cost tests and procedures, underuse of prevention, early intervention...
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MHN Fall 2011 Issue
"Health Care Reform and Mental Health Parity And Their Impact on People and Service Providers” Articles in This...
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Our Patients Are Mothers Too
The impact of serious mental illness on mothers has received little attention when compared to the study of outcomes for children of parents with mental illness. Mental health providers may not routinely inquire about the parenting status of seriously mentally ill women, or consider whether they...
