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Nurturing Healing Within Our Homes: Pathways to Treatment Within the Family
…could impact the occurrence of addiction or addictive behaviors over the lifespan. Conversely, there are arguments that those same components listed above could be introduced from a “nurture” perspective. If…
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Your Options for Responding to Mental Illness Stigma (Protectively, Collaboratively, or Assertively)
…mental health problems because I was scared of being stigmatized. When I had my first manic episode, I was at college and Facebook had just come out. I was nervous…
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Fountain House’s Silver Center for Older Adults: It Takes a Village to “Live Long and Prosper” with Behavioral Health Challenges
…model for older adults is that they’re able to make meaningful social connections, not just with people their own age, but with younger adults. These intergenerational relationships can lead to…
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Pain and Its Impact on the Opioid Epidemic
…https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids/opioid-crisis National Institutes on Health (2016). The National Pain Strategy. https://iprcc.nih.gov/National_Pain_Strategy/NPS_Main.htm President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis (2017). Draft Interim Report. https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/ondcp/commission-interim-report.pdf Price, TE (2017). “Secretary…
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Have Some CLAS: What Leading Organizations Are Doing to Address Population Health
…health or faith based organizations serving unique cultural and/or religious communities. CLAS Resources Race Matters: Organizational Self-Assessment: http://www.aecf.org/resources/race-matters-organizational-self-assessment/ Self-Assessment for Cultural Competence: http://www.asha.org/practice/multicultural/self.htm The Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Protocol for Health…
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Improving the American Mental Health System: The Importance of the Workplace
…substance use disorder who do not get treatment. Had he gotten treatment from his primary care physician, he would have had about 1 chance in 8 of getting “minimally adequate…
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Barriers to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opiate Use Disorders
…addiction problem, and inform and educate public health agencies and health professionals about the use, abuse and diversion of prescription drugs (PDMP Training and Technical Assistance Center www.pdmpassist.org). Unfortunately, there…
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The NYSPA Report: DSM 5 – A New Diagnostic Perspective
…substance use categories, of 28 disorders. Interestingly criticism of the DSM-5 has come from both directions. It has been categorized as a collection of relatively minor adjustments to DSM- IV…
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Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders
…anorexia nervosa. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005; 44:632–639. Lock J, Couturier J, Agras WS. Comparison of long-term outcomes in adolescents with anorexia nervosa treated…
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Understanding and Treating Depression
…Domino M, McNulty S, Vitiello B, Severe J. Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS) team. Fluoxetine, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and their combination for adolescents with depression: Treatment for Adolescents with…
