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Early Childhood Social-Emotional Development: Building Healthy Foundations for A Lifetime of Success
…conditions such as lung, liver and heart disease throughout the lifespan (ACE Study, CDC, www.cdc.gov/ace/index.htm). The more types of adversity and individual experiences in childhood, the greater the likelihood that…
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How Do I Prevent My Child from Developing an Eating Disorder?
…one thing does not cause eating disorders. While an incident may trigger the beginning of an eating disorder (i.e. a diet, or comment about one’s body), they are complex and…
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Spotlight on Eating Disorders
…Nevertheless, the study reported that these disorders are more common in women. The lifetime rate for anorexia nervosa among women was estimated at 0.9 percent compared to 0.3 percent among…
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Making Recovery More Than Just a Word
…progress through increased employment rates, increased income levels, housing stability and independence, community integration and improvements in health and wellness. The Department has committed to achieving these outcomes by supporting…
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No More Flying Solo: Why Integration Works
…Common mental disorders like depression and anxiety can present with somatic symptoms like headaches, fatigue, pain, gastrointestinal problems, and this makes an accurate diagnosis in an exclusively primary care setting…
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Older Adults: The Hidden “Sandwich” Generation
…caregivers is composed of, “Anyone who provides assistance to someone else who is, in some degree, incapacitated and needs help” (www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=439). Typically, when one considers the statistics and the definition…
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Shattering the Silence of Selective Mutism
…to certain people. In 1994, the Selective Mutism Foundation (www.selectivemutismfoundation.org) was instrumental in changing the name in the DSM IV to Selective Mutism as the feeling was that the word…
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Giving Care to the Caregiver: Visiting Nurse Services in Westchester
…care of Mom, or to compound the internal conflict even further, they may experience relief that someone has noticed how exhausted they are. Most people feel that admitting they cannot…
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Sustainability for Systems of Care
…Systems of Care are family-driven, youth-guided, community-based, culturally competent, and sustained beyond the life of the grant. The focus on “sustainability” separates System of Care from other grant programs, and,…
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Internet Distance Learning Initiative Focuses on How to Treat Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
…leaders to see who has completed training and to generate summary reports in a number of flexible ways (e.g., individually, by program, by agency, by degree or certification type, by…
