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How Modeling Compassion Can Help Reduce Stigma in Mental Health
…work to reduce it. One of the most valuable interventions used to reduce mental health stigma is the modeling of compassion. Research on the value of compassion has been found…
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The Lens of Loss: Perspectives of Family Members Following Suicide Loss
…have prepared him for the reality that loss – and the potential for loss – would become such a focal point. “My parents and their sanity became my singular focus,”…
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The Padavan Law and Group Home Placement
…law defines these facilities as community residential facilities. The law further directs any organization wishing to open a community residential facility to provide written notice of the location and activities…
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Senior Volunteer Programs Provide More than Service
…County on Long Island since 1977. This program along with the Senior Companion Program, are national volunteer programs that are administered through the Corporation for National and Community Service. They…
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Can Medical Cannabis Treat Chronic Pain?
…(2020). Medical marijuana and opioid (MEMO) study: Study protocol of a longitudinal cohort study to examine if medical cannabis reduces opioid use among adults with chronic pain. BMJ Open, 10(12):e043400….
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Returning Veterans and Readjustment
…not just the infantry – to combat conditions. These are also the first protracted conflicts fought with a Volunteer military – unlike the Vietnam conflict when draftees served two years…
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Relief from Decades of Treatment-Resistant Depression Comes with Metabolite Replacement Therapy Trial
…what we are finding,” she says. She has so far expanded her study to 140 participants. To qualify for the study, patients must have had three maximum dose anti-depressant trials…
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SIMHS SafeTY.net Early Intervention Program Fills Gaps in Services for Staten Island Youth Battling Trauma-Related Substance Use/Abuse
…Superstorm resulted in extraordinarily high symptoms of PTSD. But it represented a challenge. To meet that challenge, we developed Sandy SafeTY.net, targeting high-risk youth, ages 16-24, from hurricane-impacted communities with…
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Today’s Treatment Models Use All the Tools in the Toolbox
…– or controlled by a drug of abuse – and harms themselves and potentially others. Denial, conscious and unconscious, is the primary defense used by a person with substance use…
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The NYSPA Report: DSM 5 – A New Diagnostic Perspective
…an independent specifier in the diagnosis as it may predict higher rates of suicide and poorer outcome. And finally, no discussion of DSM-5 can be complete without highlighting the fact…
