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Cyberbullying Studied at Four Winds
…School of Medicine and Farleigh Dickinson University, presented a study entitled “Cyberbullying and Adolescent Mental Health: A Study of Adolescents on an Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Unit.” This study suggests that…
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Residential Support for Individuals with Mental Illness: Its History and Hopes for the Future
…should proliferate in the absence of an evidentiary basis or a coherent public housing policy, as the rate of deinstitutionalization in recent decades has necessitated the rapid development of community-based…
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Our Patients Are Mothers Too
The impact of serious mental illness on mothers has received little attention when compared to the study of outcomes for children of parents with mental illness. Mental health providers may…
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About
…– 95 Quarterly Issues 100% Free – No Paywall View the BHN Media Kit Meet the Staff Ira H. Minot, LMSW Founder Mental Health News Education (MHNE) Publisher, Behavioral Health…
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For One Mind, Too Many Silos
…intervention with entry into a compassionate continuum of care rather than into non-communicative and competitive “silos.” The continuum needs to be the commonly noted mix of crisis, inpatient, outpatient, residential,…
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From A Home to A Career
…hard to place, given the disordered eating, but they did it. I moved from the hospital to supervised supportive housing, scared but grateful beyond measure. I realized that freelance journalism…
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The NYSPA Report – Report on the Veterans Mental Health Training Initiative
…disorder rates are reportedly as high as 24.5 percent for National Guard and Reserve troops serving in Iraq. In addition to high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder, providers in the…
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Social Determinants of Rural Zip Codes
…about much more than just access to services. As mentioned above, the suicide rate in rural areas is high and getting higher. The greater rates also map to rates of…
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Socializing Safely This Season: National Impaired Driving Prevention Month
…the calendar. It could be an intimate dinner at a friend’s house, perhaps a happy hour to celebrate a return to the office, or a gathering of high school friends…
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System Transformation: What Does the Future Hold?
…increasingly direct comprehensive and multi-component services occurring in every milieu and neighborhood. Nearly all consumers will have access to peer specialists or community health workers working side by side with…
