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Helping Caregivers Understand the Challenges of End-of-Life Decision Making for Those with Mental Retardation
…agent has not been assigned; Confusion among two terms– competency and capacity, which are commonly used interchangeably in viewing whether or not a person with mental retardation has the ability…
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Addressing Trauma and Substance Abuse with Peer-Led Programs
People who experience trauma, either as children or later in life as adults, are at a higher risk of developing mental health and substance use problems and chronic physical health…
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Ongoing Transformations at The MHA of Westchester
…preparing them to integrate substance use approaches with more familiar clinical interventions. Staff across all services – from clinics to residential, peer professionals and support staff are trained in the…
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Intelligent Automation in Mental Health Care: Improving Patient Outcomes and Reducing Clinician Burnout
…communication. As a result of these automations we realized significant time savings, increased accuracy, and have streamlined complex tasks. In March 2020, NYPCC was quickly able to pivot to telehealth,…
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Transforming Behavioral Health Systems of Care to Improve Outcomes and Promote Value
…and rural communities across the state, Optum has conducted Mental Health First Aid training to help community members learn how to recognize and better understand someone who is experiencing a…
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Outcome of Schizophrenia in Later Life: Conceptual Changes and Implications for Treatment and Policy
…as depression and cognitive impairment. Moreover, functionality is an important outcome variable, especially measures such as community integration. The combination of clinical remission and community integration comprises “clinical recovery.” Subjective…
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What is Imposter Phenomenon and How Can it Result in Anxiety and Depression?
…to complete tasks affected participants’ motivation to exert effort, causing the participants either to reduce their effort for a task seen as futile – common in individuals experiencing depression –…
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Embracing Harm Reduction
…poverty, with psychiatric difficulties, adverse effects of drug use and chronic health conditions. It is not our job to ignore that reality, to say “come back when you are ready,…
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Building Partnerships to Transform Autism Services
…high-quality, evidence-based public education options for families in the five boroughs of New York. Among the innovations were community-based instruction, work internships, and peer mentoring programs. The school has since…
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Aging Through a Strengths-Based Lens: Dreaming Big, Living Longer
…of major diseases, treatment and quality of life interventions, at both individual and community levels (Fernandes & Paul, 2017). Many in our field say that staff tend to take on…
