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Promoting Post-Pandemic Growth
…The belief that post-traumatic growth is possible is essential to the process, and highlighting examples of growth is one way of demonstrating this potential. In fact, this was the impetus…
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Merging Missions: Building a Staff Wellness Program
…and other supporters have completed the New York City Marathon). The purpose of R U FIT?! is to complement these activities with free, online, confidential health coaching and personalized programs…
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Friendship is Good Medicine at Compeer
…illness (SMI). A recent study of the Compeer program found that its clients experience an increased sense of wellbeing and social connection (Friendship Really Matters: Exploring effects of Compeer friendships…
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety
…and underlying assumptions are discussed and examined for logic, validity, adaptiveness, and enhancement of positive behavior versus maintenance of pathology (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979). Behavioral techniques are used…
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Eating Disorders: Early Warning Signs and Assessment
…Eating of non-food items is not uncommon. These disorders are often overlooked medical illnesses due to co-morbidity. The complexity of chief complaints and differences in presentation can leave a clinician…
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Why Not Harm Reduction for Problem Gambling?
…disorders have been shown to have high comorbidity with substance use and mental health issues. In a national study, almost three quarter of pathological gamblers had an alcohol use disorder,…
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The Foundations of a New βWellnessβ Workforce
…commands an increasing share of resources without a commensurate contribution to the public good. It is therefore unsurprising that outcomes of traditional healthcare interventions are dismal in view of our…
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The Impact of Housing on Mental Health Issues and Substance Misuse
In Maslow’s hierarchy, physiological needs – food, water, shelter – are the base upon which all other human activity rests. As a population, particularly in more privileged areas, we tend…
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Where Do We Go from Here? Follow-Up Care from Psychiatric Hospitalization
Psychiatric hospitalization is a disruptive event for any individual, especially for a child and family. However, brief the hospital stay – and stays are very brief these days – the…
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Elder Abuse: A Challenge to the Mental Health System
…Health, February 2010. Yon, Y et al (2017). “Elder abuse prevalence in Community Settings: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” in The Lancet, February 2017. 6. The Elder Justice Roadmap http://www.ncall.us/content/elder-justice-roadmap…
