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Early Identification of Childhood Disorders in Primary Care
…structure. The 4Rs and 2Ss model stands for Rules, Respectful Communication, Relationships, Responsibility and Stress and Social support. The family group dynamic creates cohesion, and support, while reducing negative parent-child…
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Promoting Cultural Competence to Address Health Disparities and Improve Health Outcomes
…and the communities where people live. Optum has demonstrated a commitment to monitoring and addressing these components of health and well-being across provider networks and services. An essential goal for…
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Building a Quality Behavioral Health Workforce: Employing Service-User Perspectives Throughout Your Organization
…means at Community Access moves far beyond common understandings of peer work particularly as it is defined under HCBS. At Community Access, service-user experiences and perspectives are represented at every…
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Meeting the Challenges of Healthcare Reform: Preparing the Workforce for Transformational Practice Change
…care consumers is part of the goal. Presumably, many of the people being covered by Medicaid expansion will come with a history of poorly managed care and multiple comorbidities. Under…
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Soldiers at Increased Suicide Risk After Leaving Hospital
…psychiatric treatment. However, researchers found that many factors contributed toward predicting suicide risk in this group, individually and in combination. This fact underscores the complexity of assessing suicide risk and…
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Friendship is Good Medicine at Compeer
…Based on data collected by researchers at Boston University’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, the study compared 79 adults who received Compeer services and community psychiatric treatments to 75 adults with…
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ElderCare Services Address “Hidden Epidemic” of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Among Older Americans
…dedicated residential and outpatient services and, more recently, developing a peer-run, community-based mentoring program. Growing Demand for Services Older adults represent one of the fastest growing segments of the US…
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Behavioral Health Medical Homes: An Approach to Integrated Care
…stigma around mental illness. Having moved from Baton Rouge to New York City, she was overwhelmed by the transition and began suffering from depression, often feeling isolated and angry. She…
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Second Chances
…worry about. I stayed in the shelter system for six months before I said, “enough is enough.” I was tired of feeling lost, lonely, and sick. It was time to…
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From Transition to Transformation
…down and examine how groups within the population fare, in order to identify and address disparities in access, quality, or outcomes. This requires examining data by neighborhoods, by racial/ethnic groups,…
