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Panic and Anxiety Disorder: One Person’s Journey
…minutes while hundreds of normal people drove past. Finally, feeling drained, I drove the rest of the way home. From then on, being “in the middle of my own death”…
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An Update on the National RAISE Schizophrenia Project – An Interview with John Kane, MD
…not simply the measure of the signs and symptoms that are associated with schizophrenia like delusions and hallucinations, but involve people’s ability to function in the community. That’s really the…
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Providing a Second Chance for People with Schizophrenia
…discharged who needed the support and structure provided by a community residence. This was a vital component of the program as many of our patients have comorbid medical problems such…
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Successful Consumers Make Successful Providers
…Federation program that is comprised of experienced advocates who are concerned about improving the quality of services available to the mental health community. In Brooklyn, our peers work in adult…
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Investing in Whole Person Care in Supported Housing: Improving Health, Enhancing Recovery
…long histories of mental health and substance use issues; some with HIV/AIDS; many from prison, state hospitals and adult homes. Whoever they are and wherever they have come from, we…
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Telephonic Follow Up to a Psychiatric Emergency Room Visit: A Call Center Service Model
…in place a follow up system for people discharged from inpatient units to verify that initial post-discharge outpatient appointments are kept (personal communication, 2008). What is not well established is…
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Where Do We Go from Here? Follow-Up Care from Psychiatric Hospitalization
…coping skills of drug abuse and self-harm that often accompany it, recovery can be complicated and unstable. Family relationships have usually become strained, often explosive, and the need for further…
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Assisted Outpatient Treatment: A Helping Hand in the Community
…prior conduct and non-compliance of Assisted Outpatient Treatment candidates, do not feel comfortable discharging the patient until an Order is in place. Accordingly, individuals who are otherwise psychiatrically stable enough…
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Physical Health Should Be a Priority of the Mental Health System and Mental Health Should Be a Priority of the Health System
…are compelling reasons for focusing mental health and health policy on the inter-relationship of health and mental health. But we will need to work hard to make the case compelling…
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Guardianships for Incapacitated Persons and The Limitations on a Guardian’s Ability to Consent to or Refuse Psychiatric Treatment
…make decisions for him or herself or, totally incapacitated without the ability to make any decisions whatsoever. With the passage of Article 81, the law now permits the court to…
