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The Keys to My Recovery: Stable Supportive Housing and Meaningful Employment
…services, and advocating for the rights of people to live without fear or stigma. Find out more and get involved at www.communityaccess.org/facebook. And visit www.communityaccess.org/ca-voices to read other tenant stories….
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Housing and Employment, The Foundation for Recovery: Keeping the Focus in a Changing Environment
Across the country, conversations are taking place about integrated, community- based employment for individuals with disabilities. There are also conversations about housing individuals with disabilities in the community, in the…
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AHRC New York City Launches New Initiative to Better Serve the Community
…clinical competencies in the provision of services to individuals with autism and others with challenging behaviors and their families, particularly adolescents and adults for whom specialized services are sorely lacking….
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From Isolation and Despair to Engagement and Activation: The Peer Support Specialist’s Role in the Behavioral Health Care System
…Health Promotion. Addressing chronic disease through community health workers: A policy and systems-level approach. Policy brief on community health workers. Washington, DC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2010. http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/docs/chw_brief.pdf…
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A Comprehensive Overview of Psychotherapy
…own health issues.12 In addition, a 2005 study found that 33 percent of caregivers of bipolar patients had clinically significant levels of depression.13 Are Psychotherapies Different for Children and Adolescents?…
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Can New York State Healthcare Reforms Advance Recovery?
…For our part, NYAPRS is poised to launch a statewide series of regional forums on these topics. For more information, look at our website in the coming weeks at www.nyaprs.org….
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Understanding Eating Disorders: An Overview from the NIMH
…common complications that lead to death are cardiac arrest, and electrolyte and fluid imbalances. Suicide also can result. Many people with anorexia also have coexisting psychiatric and physical illnesses, including…
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Inequality in the Effects of Disaster Trauma in Women
…professional services that are available to address the emotional pain of traumatic events. Resources may be found at: www.samhsa.gov/Disaster and www.ptsd.va.gov/. Providers who wish to become trained in post disaster…
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Mental Illness Education Does Make a Difference: “Breaking the Silence” Found to be Effective
…from his high school friends twenty-three years ago when they were searching for an explanation of why he had suddenly disappeared from school. Although Susin says she was comfortable speaking…
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An Interview with Helen Blair Simpson, MD, PhD, Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the NYS Psychiatric Institute
…fears that they may do something bad or might even have intrusive images of doing something bad – really bad things like killing their mother – which these people don’t…
