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Integrated Care Models to Improve Health Outcomes and Reduce Poverty
…graduate with a standard diploma, and approximately 35% of the homeless have untreated mental illness. Moreover, lack of access to critical mental health services and care comes at unreasonably high…
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Mental Health Integration in Pediatric Primary Care Practices in NYC
…The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends use of standardized valid developmental and behavioral screens as an integral component to well-child care (AAP Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and…
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The State of Children’s Mental Health and Associated Costs of a Fragmented System
…psychiatric illness than from leukemia, diabetes and AIDs combined.*** Progress has been made to address the needs of these troubled children more comprehensibly. Spurred by SAMSHA’s “Systems of Care” initiative…
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Scan Predicts Whether Therapy or Meds Will Best Lift Depression
…the treatment of mental disorders, brain imaging remains primarily a research tool, yet these results demonstrate how it may be on the cusp of aiding in clinical decision-making,” said NIMH…
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Suicide Prevention: Creating an Agency-Wide Response
…a suicide alert community, committed to caring for people with thoughts of suicide. Our primary goals are: to learn more about people who have thoughts of suicide; to lower the…
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Riding the Wave of Health Care Reform
…Abuse at Columbia University (CASA-Columbia) represents the culmination of a five year research project that details current research in neuroscience and addictions and reviews the evidence base for effective screening,…
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Challenges for the Treatment of Chemical Abusers with Mental Illness
…attendants to accept the varying readiness levels in others and helps to eliminate discussion regarding comparisons with other clients (Sciacca, 1991). A secondary component in group work is the educational…
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Social Security Matters – Major Depression and Disability
…or impairments are of a sufficient medical severity that such impairment or impairments could be the basis of eligibility under this section, the Commissioner is required to consider the combined…
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Supportive Housing: A Cornerstone to Recovery in a Changing World
…health services, promoting community integration and recovery. Toward that end, supportive housing is a top priority for our Bureau, comprising approximately $75 million or 40% of our overall funding to…
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How Health Care Reform Affects Providers and Consumers
…of unnecessary, high cost tests and procedures, underuse of prevention, early intervention primary care and behavioral health services, and medical errors due to poor coordination among providers, and poor communication…
