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Point of View: Improving American Mental Health Policy
…That’s a lot of money. It supports powerful vested interests and drives tremendous competition. Hospitals, community providers, private practitioners, drug companies, universities, governments, insurance and managed care companies, and others…
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Inequality in the Effects of Disaster Trauma in Women
…This is 4% higher than rates for men excluding those involved in war (where there is high exposure to violence, death and continued imminent threat of death). Again, we do…
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Reaching Out to Meet the Mental Health Needs of the Aging
…competent, coordinated – and most of all – effective care and support to help them live successfully in the community and to avoid institutional placement or readmission into institutional care….
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A Good Place to Live Is Critical for Older Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities: Needed Public Policy Changes
…live. Safe, stable, and appropriate housing is critical to their quality of life. Providing decent housing is, however, an extremely complex matter because older adults with severe, long-term psychiatric disabilities…
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The Opioid Epidemic: A Consumerβs Point of View
…far as what helps for real, places like SUS really have this down to a science. First though, let’s talk about what doesn’t help for real, and that would include…
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Mental Health Advocacy With and Without Advanced Technology
…mental health with a single push of a button. And I guess the speed of communication offers some real advantages. But there are more than a few speedy communications I…
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An Effective Work Force Embraces and Drives Integrated Care
…ICL services through an integrated care lens and giving staff a deeper understanding of who they are serving – people in poverty, in distressed, underserved and highly diverse communities and…
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Social Security Matters – Major Depression and Disability
…often paramount is a concern about the stigma of being depressed. Unlike physical conditions such as diabetes or hypertension, depression – though an even more common disease – is something…
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New, Work-focused Approach Helps Employees with Depression Do Better at Work and Feel Better, Too
…law it’s completely confidential, allaying privacy concerns, too. Employees receive results from the screener immediately — along with data showing how their scores compare to those of co-workers and their…
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System Change and Service Providers: Opportunities and Challenges in Addressing Unmet Needs
…illnesses, the MRT Subcommittee took the five most highly rates home and community-based services and proposed they be added to the state plan to be accessed by thousands more children….
