Becoming an Adult During the Pandemic: Trauma and Resilience

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Public Policy Advocate
• July 2nd, 2021
• COVID-19, relationships, resilience, Summer 2021 Issue, trauma, young adults
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…satisfaction in social and political activism (both on the left and on the right), work, volunteerism, online education, military service, virtual relationships, and so forth. They have found ways not…

Psychiatric Consultation: A Method to Expand the Workforce

• By: Marc Avery, MD Health Management Associates
• October 1st, 2021
• collaborative care model, Fall 2021 Issue, psychiatric consultation model of care, team-based care
• 881    0

…Fortney, Ph.D., Jürgen Unützer, M.D., M.P.H., Glenda Wrenn, M.D., M.S.H.P., Jeffrey M. Pyne, M.D., G. Richard Smith, M.D., Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D., Henry T. Harbin, M.D. Published Online https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201500439 (Sept 2016)…

A Virtual Peer DBT Consultation Group

• By: Liza Pincus, PsyD Kelly Daly, PhD Elana G. Spira, PhD Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS)
• October 4th, 2021
• DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Fall 2021 Issue, remote peer consultation, research, telehealth
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…post-group follow-up), t (7) = -2.808, p = .026. Qualitative themes, as measured by open-ended questions on the follow-up surveys, indicated that post-intervention, participants: Were more comfortable adapting DBT in…

2022 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Management Summit

• February 18th, 2022
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…collaboration with community partners, treating co-occurring disorders, value-based care, workplace wellness, social determinants, managing mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. For more information visit our website at www.brinetwork.com….

Behavioral Health News Spotlight on Excellence – An Interview with Carol Cassell and Nadeem Ramjan from Advanced Health Network & Recovery Health Solutions

• By: Staff Writer Behavioral Health News
• April 6th, 2022
• community-based services, data, data-informed culture, health and wellness, healthcare, New York State, social determinants of health, Spring 2022 Issue
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…use providers. I’m very passionate about that. In my background, I’ve worked with implementing EMRs in hospitals, for primary care physicians, and for the behavioral health community. It’s one thing…

Stigma Is Being Used as a Political Weapon: Reject It

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• July 14th, 2022
• homicides, mass shootings, mental illness, opinion, politics, stigma, Summer 2022 Issue
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…a volunteer social advocate as Chair of the Cognitive and Behavioral Health Advocacy Team of AARP Maryland. His writings can be found at www.michaelbfriedman.com. He can be reached at mf395@columbiauniversity.edu….

A Cruel Irony: Less Mental Health Stigma but Fewer Behavioral Health Clinicians

• By: Seth Diamond Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS)
• July 14th, 2022
• demand for services, mental health, mental health treatment, reimbursement rates, societal stigma, stigma, Summer 2022 Issue, telehealth, workforce crisis
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…on the Army’s Facebook page. (The New York Times, A General Fights to Destigmatize Mental Health Issues: ‘There’s a Shame if You Show Weakness’, by Jennifer Steinhauer, March 19, 2022)….

Mental Health in America: Looking Back With Pride and Ahead With Hope

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• October 7th, 2022
• advocacy, community-based mental health, deinstitutionalization, Fall 2022 Issue, health equity, institutionalization, psychiatric hospitalization, serious mental illness
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…discharged from, or were no longer admitted to, state hospitals. Legislators were alarmed. For example, Senator Frank Padavan, who chaired the NYS Senate’s mental hygiene committee, held hair-raising hearings on…

Mental Health Parity in New York – How It Started, How It’s Going

• By: Rachel A. Fernbach, Esq. NY State Psychiatric Association (NYSPA)
• October 7th, 2022
• advocacy, healthcare insurance, HMO health contracts, Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Report Act, mental health parity, Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, New York State, reimbursement, Timothy’s Law
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…the New York State Psychiatric Association and incoming Chair of the Mental Health News Education, Inc. Board of Directors. Footnotes https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/picnic-parity-grows-nationally CHAMP, a joint program of the New York State…

From Blame to Burden and Beyond: Changing Perspectives on the Family and Behavioral Health

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• January 17th, 2023
• addiction, autism, families, mental illness, self-harm, Winter 2023 Issue
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…addiction as a condition that involves entire families. Many addiction recovery organizations talk about six family roles: (1) the person who is addicted, (2) enabler, (3) the scapegoat, (4)the hero,…