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Suffering Across Settings: Multidimensional Care for Chronic Pain
The multidimensional suffering encompassed by chronic pain conditions, combined with their prevalence, demands a multidisciplinary approach to management. The direct impact that chronic pain has on physical distress, as well as emotional state, sleep, stress levels, and coping systems, highlights...
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Working Works: Considerations and Resources for Navigating Employment in the Recovery Journey
Behavioral health best practice incorporates a whole-health perspective that emphasizes wellness, is person-centered, and focuses on the whole person and their strengths, not their illness (Swarbrick, 2006). Occupational wellness, that “personal satisfaction and enrichment derived from one’s...
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The Critical Role of Peer Support Programs to Sustained Substance Use Disorder Recovery
Many people who have used behavioral health services can attest to the profound benefits of connecting with someone with shared experience. Finding others with common lived experience - often referred to as peers - and learning about their challenges and resilience are particularly valuable for...
