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NYSPA Report – Mental Health and Addiction Parity: Law and Regulations
…all of whom submitted extensive comments. The IFR provides further details about how the law should be implemented and what insurers and employers must do to comply with the law….
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The Care Manager as Storyteller and Coach: Giving Voice to the Caregiver’s Reality and Opening Doors
…for her. Like so many caregivers, Bob had come to feel powerless. Helping him tell his story, engender the compassion of strangers, and speak up for his family was a…
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Evidence-Based Practices in a Community-Based Children’s Summer Therapeutic Program: 33 Days to a Better Level of Functioning
…learning skills and academic achievement; following through on instruction and completing tasks; and developing individual competence and self-esteem. The SIMHS STP model Point System is based on a systematic reward/response…
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Are Psychiatric Disorders Over-diagnosed in Children? Are Medicines Over-prescribed? 13 Myths & Facts
…research and much debate. Even with all the research, are these disorders evolving concepts? Absolutely. Research is painstaking and takes years, so our understanding of these disorders changes slowly. Some…
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Four Considerations for Behavioral Healthcare Design
…facility users transitioning into the community following incarceration. Inviting the greater community into the engagement process can be helpful in more ways than one. It allows community members to share…
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Investing in Whole Person Care in Supported Housing: Improving Health, Enhancing Recovery
…supported housing in the community after deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in the 1980s. Much of course has changed since the 1986 opening of ICL’s Stepping Stone Residence on Nevins…
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Finding My Voice
…to the community, but I couldn’t seem to find my voice. Never in a million years did I think that, one day, I’d be helping those living with mood disorders…
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The Unheralded Heroes of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Residential Addiction Treatment Workers
…coverage and general attention the Coronavirus pandemic commands. Really, how can you not be overwhelmed by the greatest health threat in generations, if not ever? So thankfully we have systems…
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Care Transitions: A Critical Time to Prevent Suicides
…and physical problems collaboratively, ensuring compliance with parity laws and locking in the availability of tele-behavioral health services implemented during COVID-19. Rosenberg also stresses the need for “communities understanding and…
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Preventing Suicide During the Pandemic
…served by Services for the UnderServed (S:US), a New York City-based nonprofit that is committed to giving every New Yorker the tools that they can use to lead a life…
