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Point of View – Looking Back with Pride: Mental Health Policy in the 2nd Half of the 20th Century
…community, and to insist on their acceptance in the communities where they choose to live. Symbols, of course, are not actualities. High moral feelings are not achievements. And so we…
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Point of View: Mental Health Needs in Kinship
…of thousands of kids in kinship care. Immediately this could include: Establishing a workgroup to review and make recommendations to improve OMH’s clinic standards to assure appropriate attention to the…
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Using Social Determinants of Health for the Field of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
…Auerbach (Health Affairs) tell us that many articles on SDOH “aren’t about improving the underlying social and economic conditions in communities to foster improved health for all – they’re about…
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Deinstitutionalization Did Not Cause Homelessness: Loss of Low-income Housing and Disability Benefits Did
…oversimplify, some argued that state hospital beds should be re-opened, and some argued that the community services that had been promised as part of deinstitutionalization should be put in place….
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How Will They Tell Their Story? PTSD and Substance Use Disorder
…abuse/dependence (MayoClinic.com, ‘08). In certain studies, 60-80% of treatment-seeking Vietnam combat veterans with PTSD also met the criteria for current alcohol and/or drug abuse, and one study even found 91%…
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A South Asian Perspective on COVID-19 Trauma: A Short Overview
…lead to unimaginable behavioral outbursts and patterns for this community where we still find mental health issues as a taboo. Health Complications: Community members with an underlying health conditions are…
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In the Shadow of the Pandemic: The Suicide Crisis in America
…are the most common means of suicide, especially among men in rural areas. Hanging and drug overdoses are the next most common but are comparatively infrequent. Michael B. Friedman, LMSW…
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Beyond Data: Strategies to Reduce Racial Missteps for Behavioral Healthcare Providers
…of cultural elements for ethnic minority clients compared with White clients.” (Meyer and Zane; The Influence of Race and Ethnicity in Clients’ Experiences of Mental Health Treatment; 2013) Similar research…
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A Network Approach for Social Determinants of Health
…developing a network-wide solution—offering the right tools and resources— brings together otherwise disconnected community programs to collaborate in an ecosystem that is communicative and leverages data to inform care coordination…
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Social Determinants of Behavioral Health: Time to Augment Advocacy Strategy?
The hope implicit in the concept of social determinants is that broad changes in the social, economic, and political structures of our communities, nations, and world can result in improved…
