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PTSD Among Veterans: A Signature Wound that Desperately Needs Healing
…Many prefer to return to civilian life and get care from primary care physicians or community clinics in their local communities. Therefore, while the federal VA must continue to bolster…
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Accessing the Untouchables: The Touch Points to Change
…recognizing and expressing their feelings, lose their positive and loving feelings toward other people or report feeling disconnected in their relationships and friendships. Additionally, individuals may not be interested in…
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The Family Clinical Nurse Specialist: Promoting Health in People with Mental Health Conditions
…prevention of illness, and risk behaviors among individuals, families, groups and the community. To put it more simply, I have the traditional roles as care giver and care provider in…
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Social Security Matters – Major Depression and Disability
…a performance or quality review. By the time most people come to our offices to discuss a claim for Disability benefits, they are no longer working, whether because they simply…
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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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The Redesign of Housing
…consumer interaction and socialization through in-house activities, community-based activities, or simply befriending other program residents. Surveys confirm concerns in this area, as consumers don’t often have the opportunity or motivation…
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Planning Ahead for Difficult Health Care Decisions
…Act Recently New York State passed the Family Health Care Decisions Act (“FHCDA”). The FHCDA fills a huge gap in the law where a person had not completed an advanced…
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Noted Panelists Discuss the Impact of Race and Racism on the Mental Health Professions and on the Therapeutic Alliance
…and anti-oppression community organizer; Billy Jones, MD, psychiatrist, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York Medical College and former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Mental Health; Julie List,…
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Obtaining Judicial Authorization to Medicate a Minor
…medication to a child is itself a complicated decision the stakes are raised if either the child or the parents do not agree with the psychiatrist’s treatment recommendation that medication…
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The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act
…activity must have been completely impaired and the individual unable to function. Hence, if the major life activity in question was, for example, being able to interact socially, the person…
