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Are Bridges Suicide Magnets? They Don’t Have to Be!
…from leaping off the Golden Gate between 1937 and 1971 – an astonishing 515 individuals in all – he painstakingly culled death-certificate records to see how many had subsequently “completed.”…
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Taking Stock: Mental Health in the Workplace
…absence management and disability programs, increasing health risk assessment completion rates, and being thoughtful about pharmacy benefits – e.g., incorporating a value-based insurance design. Integrating these services is essential to…
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Schizophrenia Linked to Over-expression of Gene in Fetal Brain
…ago. The DISC1 gene codes for a protein important for brain development, as well as for mood and memory – functions that are disturbed in schizophrenia. However, until now there…
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Overcoming Stigma Through Education and Capacity Building in Communities
…them as clients or patients helps others see the person too. Case Study The following Case Study illustrates an example of how one person was supported in ways that overcame…
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Preventing Suicide: Addressing Trauma-Related Symptoms in Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
…reported SMI. Moreover, the prevalence of SMI varies across age and self-identified gender; SMI was reported to be higher among females (7.0%) compared to males (4.0%) and elevated among young…
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Behavioral Health Care: How Far We’ve Come in 15 Years
…them how our members were reimbursed at rates far lower than others that share the safety-net – hospitals, health centers, the Department of Veterans Affairs – creating a workforce crisis…
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Housing as Healthcare
…There has historically been a woeful lack of communication between the clinicians providing physical health care and those providing behavioral health care, but also between medical clinicians and community-based providers…
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Treatment Works! The Recipe to Recovery and Storytelling as Medicine
…commitment recovery really takes. I like to think of recovery as a recipe that needs the right combination of ingredients. What does that recipe look like? This year’s recovery month…
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More Than Just a Change in Title: New Statewide Effort Supports the Move from Case Management to Care Management
…them. The systems are highly complex and the Care Manager must now become the ‘expert’ in understanding multiple systems – the person placed in the role of ensuring all people…
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Accessing the Untouchables: The Touch Points to Change
…framework, a pillar of the Sanctuary Model®, as an organizing structure for therapeutic intervention creates a compass for therapists and clients to follow as well as paraprofessionals and family members…
