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Staying in Balance: Helping Nonprofits Manage Stress in an Uncertain Economy
…employees in the coming months. Staying in Balance resources will be available online on the MHA of NYC website (www.mhaofnyc.org) in the fall of 2009. Organizations interested in receiving the…
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The Economics of Recovery: Demystifying Government Work Incentives
…then explores SSAs’ Pass Plan (05-11017) and learns this is a savings plan. This won’t help her either because there is no money left over for her to save. Her…
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VNSW Mental Health Home Care Program: In Harmony with the Consumer Movement
…community in which they reside. Two main components to building a life in the community are housing and employment. Employment is an important component to assimilating into the community. For…
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Dr. John Ngai Named Director of NIH BRAIN Initiative
…Initiative® is managed by 10 institutes whose missions and current research portfolios complement the goals of the BRAIN Initiative: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Eye Institute, National…
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NIMH, Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs Join Forces on PTSD Research
…age 18 and older—about 7.7 million American adults—have PTSD in a given year; over a lifetime, nearly 7 percent of American adults develop PTSD. PTSD can develop at any age,…
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VNSW Mental Health Home Care Program: Transitioning Back Home Following Hospitalization
…to support community integration for its patients. Adjunct services complementing the mental health component include home health aides, medical/surgical nurses, social workers and relevant rehabilitation therapies. This program has proven…
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Building a Responsive, Accountable, Recovery-Focused System of Care
…services coordinated from a single plan; more mobile services that meet people in their houses and community, responsive to resolving crises; close coordination with physical health care; and a strong…
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The PTSD Patient: Visiting Nurse Services in Westchester Treats the “Whole Person”
…more apply than with posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Commonly most associated these days with the effects on adults of war and terrorist events, PTSD can in fact occur in…
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Bridging Clinical and Research Frontiers in the Treatment of PTSD
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating stress-related psychiatric condition associated with significant psychiatric comorbidity, functional impairment, compromised health status, early mortality, and substantial economic costs to society. Despite the…
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Columbia Trauma and PTSD Program: Vital Research and Treatment for Veterans
…actually compares to the experiences of combat. Combat stress includes not only the constant threat of injury and death, the horrors of witnessing violent death, and the moral ambiguity of…
