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Through a Glass Darkly: Poverty and Mental Health in The Bronx
…companies I seek out. Our patients read, gobbling up books and magazines hungrily. They read everything, from Brides’ Magazine to The Nation, The New Yorker and Yachting. The classics, autobiographies,…
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Caring for The Caregiver: Becoming Fearless During Illness and Loss
…feel trapped and begin to comply. They are not trapped by the patient really, but by their own feelings of guilt and fear. In this case, complying with the demands…
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Can You Trust the Research Findings You Read on The Internet?
…you read on the Internet? Another case of caveat emptor or let the buyer beware—even if the information is free! In some cases, these reports herald real advances that redefine…
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Using Social Determinants of Health for the Field of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
…mediating patients’ individual social needs. If this is what addressing the social determinants of health has come to mean, not only has the definition changed, but it has changed in…
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Deinstitutionalization Did Not Cause Homelessness: Loss of Low-income Housing and Disability Benefits Did
…pimps, drug addicts, and other less than savory people in addition to highly vulnerable, severely mentally ill people. The story that probably had the most impact was of the murders…
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How Will They Tell Their Story? PTSD and Substance Use Disorder
…had a “hands-off” policy on dealing with past trauma. As the conversation I described earlier demonstrates, this is a common belief in the CD Treatment community. The folk culture of…
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Behavioral Health During and After the Pandemic
…state hospitals, adult homes, community residences, supportive housing, etc. Standards should include routine testing/screening of workers and clients/patients, adequate protective gear, and more. Efforts should be redoubled to get tests…
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A South Asian Perspective on COVID-19 Trauma: A Short Overview
…lead to unimaginable behavioral outbursts and patterns for this community where we still find mental health issues as a taboo. Health Complications: Community members with an underlying health conditions are…
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In the Shadow of the Pandemic: The Suicide Crisis in America
…are the most common means of suicide, especially among men in rural areas. Hanging and drug overdoses are the next most common but are comparatively infrequent. Michael B. Friedman, LMSW…
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Beyond Data: Strategies to Reduce Racial Missteps for Behavioral Healthcare Providers
…behavioral healthcare treatment (Allan, Cook, Carson, et al.; Patient-Provider Therapeutic Alliance Contributes to Patient Activation in Community Mental Health Clinics; 2017), NHW providers have an obligation to adjust their practice…
