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The Best We Can Do
…being there, profoundly there. I can’t call it empathy because I really can’t imagine what it must be like for them. I call it simply “listening,” and tolerating the helplessness…
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Integrated Health Care: A Life Saving Concept in Search of a Functional Reality
…The concept of a competent community was developed decades ago to characterize the positive synergistic impact that can be harnessed when various support elements of a community have a common…
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Identifying Gaps in Employment and Vocational Supports
…plans in a particular way, having our charts pass utilization reviews or audits, simply satisfying all of our “other” duties. How do you combat this? How do we remain true…
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How Managed Care Influences Treatment Plans
…to keep Managed care companies often do not have clinicians who can provide culturally competent services POC need pre-treatment work, and there is often managed care issues related to time…
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Embracing Harm Reduction
…them think through what avenues are available to them as tenants in NYC (e.g. 311, making a complaint to our property management company), help them problem-solve what they themselves can…
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An Experienced Social Worker’s First Natural Disaster
…perilous; and due to the lack of access to gas because of the shortage, I was preoccupied with running out of gas. Communicating with loved ones was inconsistent and unpredictable;…
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Recovering the Person in Treatment
…and made more and more complex. However, complexity is not the same as depth or authenticity with respect to human being. Along with this increase in subjective complexification was a…
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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
…not happen in stages that are completed, but may require weaving in and out of the four touch points continually revisiting them in new ways over the course of healing….
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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…
