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Mental Health Policy in a Time of Economic Crisis
…substance abuse services. We need to increase the quality as well as the quantity of outpatient treatment. We need to assure that inpatient care is available and of high quality…
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An Introduction to Reimbursement and Coding for Psychiatric Collaborative Care Management Services
…behavioral health issues that impact quality of life and further complicate medical care. Individuals with SPMI are often unable to successfully manage their medical conditions or illnesses and may demonstrate…
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Progress and Challenges in Accessing Treatment for People with Autism
…competitive.” In many cases, providers take on unmanageable caseloads, and the quality of care suffers. As with other health care providers, parents and guardians need to consider the skill set…
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When the Therapist Comes to You: A Model Home Visiting Program for Seniors
…executive of Service Program for Older People for 26 years. To learn more about home visiting and SPOP’s other community-based behavioral health programs for older adults visit www.spop.org or contact…
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Supervision: Paying Attention to the Soul, Not the Technique
…attention to or ignores completely. Picking up on those kind of comments when my patients utter them has always led me to ask more profound questions and pursue issues which…
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Unique Perspectives: Harnessing Multimodal Assessment to Understand How Children with Autism Decode the Social World
…SCTL’s study of the SELWeb program. Conducted in collaboration with colleagues at the Rush NeuroBehavioral Center (NBC), this study examines an interactive web-based tool set called SELWeb, which uses a…
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Webinar: This Will Only Hurt a Little – Stoicism in the Face of EHR Implementations
…relationship and the pitfalls to avoid when entering into a new one. Topics Covered: 1) For better or worse – Coming to terms with sunk cost and swimming in choppy…
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Training Increases Substance Abuse and Mental Health Interventions
…group of SBIRT-trained pediatricians that worked in-tandem with “embedded” clinical psychologists the brief intervention rate was 24.5 percent, compared with 16 percent in the pediatrician-only group, and 1.5 percent in…
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PTSD Among Veterans: A Signature Wound that Desperately Needs Healing
…veteran dies by suicide every 80 minutes. And the magnitude of this issue is all the more urgent with more troops coming home. Higher rates of PTSD are associated with…
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Depression and Primary Care
…We see that with rates of immunization, mammography, reducing surgical complications, and evidence-based treatment of a host of common and serious diseases like diabetes, asthma, and heart disease. But general…
