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Bringing Together Data to Improve Health Outcomes
…clinical quality committees, comprised of representatives from 80+ agencies. By tracking, reporting, and building interventions around many of these, the network expects to see health improvements and reduction in negative…
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Therapeutic Groups for Girls
…for discussion real life scenarios that linked one or two of the topics together. For example, during the unit on problem solving the girls used examples that included difficult interpersonal…
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Boulevard Outpatient Stabilization Program
…days between admission and follow up appointment with high risk clinician (4.48). Additionally, in restructuring to accommodate rapid linkage, we have found a direct correlation to increased engagement rates. This…
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The Culturally and Racially Safe Practice
Delivering mental health services is first and foremost about people – those of all races, cultures, and socioeconomic statuses. To provide high quality culturally and racially safe, affective services means…
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Integrating Mental and Physical Health for a Geriatric Population
…15% of assessments conducted identified a “high” level of need, 45% “moderate” and 27% “low.” For those individuals whose level of need was “high”, 25% were already receiving services at…
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Basic Research Has Had a Major Impact on Developing New Treatments for Serious Mental Illnesses
…have shown that the illness is highly complex. Factors thought to contribute to its causation are remarkably diverse. Chief among these are genetics: variations in one’s DNA that one carries…
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From the Publisher: A Personal Journey From a Survivor of Suicide: “From the Depths of Despair to a Mission of Advocacy”
…year was 1986. I was given a prescription for 100 Valium by a psychiatrist who had never seen me before. Because I had spent years studying about mental illness in…
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One Agencyβs (and the Systemβs) Pathway to Recovery
…of community-based care, set the stage for reforms to come. 1954 was the year that New York enacted historic community mental health legislation and Thorazine was introduced as the first…
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The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation: A Personal Perspective
…it did not help him. According to the Mayo Clinic’s website, ECT often works when the full course of treatment is completed, but it may not work for everyone. Much…
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Self-Reflections on Self-Determination in Harm Reduction
…attention to self-determination, not only as a value, but also as a means toward really helping people. Dr. Eugene Aronowitz can be reached by email at gene.aronowitz88@gmail.com or at www.genearonowitzconsulting.com….
