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The NYSPA Report – Medicaid, Behavioral Healthcare, and the 2011 NYS Budget: Taking Stock
…especially problematic in view of recently published research by the National Bureau of Economic Research documenting the multidimensional benefits which accrue to enrollees in the areas of health, outlook, and…
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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…
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Geriatric Mental Health in New York State: A Reflection on Progress and Future Directions
…Act’s service demonstration programs—innovative community-based projects in two areas, (1) integrating mental health into primary care and (2) educating and training community gatekeepers to identify at-risk older adults and connect…
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Mental Health in The Elderly: Boomers Coming of Age
…is seen in varying degrees in older patients, which is often memory loss. Memory complaints are reported in 50-80% of these patients. These complaints may not actually correspond to actual…
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Building a Race Conscious Research Agenda
…we as researchers examine closely enough the mental health and complicating issues of those society has placed at risk. In research greater attention should be paid to the role of…
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From the Publisher – A Look into the World of Anxiety Disorders
…each moment as it comes. People can experience a sense of calmness and contentment with yoga.” As you will see, we have many other wonderful articles of interest in this…
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An Organization’s Multidimensional Response to the Economy
…include a community-based outpatient psychotherapy practice for children and adults, an educational program for ages 6 to 21, and a set of age specific residential/congregate care programs for ages 5…
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OMH’s Mental Health Services Restructuring: A Commentary
…payers, many adults and children will be deprived of care by community-based clinics that cannot afford to treat underpaying clients. In many communities, there are no alternatives to community-based clinics,…
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Providing Essential Care & Services Following Psychiatric Hospitalization
…Ultimately, discharge plans represent a compromise between what might be best and what is currently accessible in the area. Perhaps a composite clinical vignette will help to illuminate the discharge…
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Telephonic Follow Up to a Psychiatric Emergency Room Visit: A Call Center Service Model
…in place a follow up system for people discharged from inpatient units to verify that initial post-discharge outpatient appointments are kept (personal communication, 2008). What is not well established is…
