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No More Flying Solo: Why Integration Works
…(about one in eight) are related to a mental health or substance use disorder. More broadly, nearly one-third of adults and one-fifth of children had a diagnosable addiction or mental…
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The NYSPA Report: Achieving the Promise of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
…complex, and it is a difficult task to create practitioner and patient/consumer awareness of what is covered in them. Health plan provisions will likely flow from narrow rather than broad…
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Older Adults: The Hidden “Sandwich” Generation
…their adult child if they should ever face a health crisis. Many older adults experience symptoms of anxiety related to numerous concerns about the long-range needs of their adult children,…
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Aging with Optimism in FEGS Behavioral Health Residential Programs
…persons challenged by mental illness and recovery, meeting their multiple needs requires added support from their family or care takers. Residential providers need to add supports that address their physical…
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The Emotional Needs of Older Adults from the Former Soviet Union
…psychiatric and counseling services to many Russian speaking individuals of whom a majority are between the ages of 60-85. Certainly, there are commonalities among older adults, but older adults who…
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Shattering the Silence of Selective Mutism
…answering questions in class. Aided by these efforts to compensate for his disability, he was able to garner A’s and B’s in regular and Advanced Placement classes and was admitted…
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The Economics of Recovery: Who’s Driving the Bus?
…Effective solutions, however, are much harder to come by. Our list of sixty-nine solutions is a compilation of three types: opposites to the problem – e.g. “Never be depressed,” components…
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The NYSPA Report – DSM-5: The Future Face of Psychiatry
…After these field trials are complete, work group members will make additional modification to proposed revisions, and there may be a second round of field tests to further evaluate proposed…
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Giving Care to the Caregiver: Visiting Nurse Services in Westchester
…care of Mom, or to compound the internal conflict even further, they may experience relief that someone has noticed how exhausted they are. Most people feel that admitting they cannot…
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Helping Caregivers Understand the Challenges of End-of-Life Decision Making for Those with Mental Retardation
…because individuals are living longer due to medical advances, better medical care, and increasing numbers of community-based residential and other services, which improve quality of life. Medical advances also result…
