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The Case for Community Recovery Centers
…social networking, computer training, vocational assistance and other community supports designed to help sustain and maintain recovery long term. SDV’s first PARC, in Jamaica, Queens, has been open for almost…
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Current Trends and Controversies in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
…psychiatric co-morbidity. Our best practices treatment guidelines are not specific enough to guide comprehensive treatment planning for patients with ED combined with other conditions such as primary depression and other…
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Person Within
…being non-communicative and spending excessive amounts of time in complete darkness. I experienced a great deal of frustration as I expended limitless energy in firmly believing that my extroverted, optimistic,…
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Integrating Health and Behavioral Health Services: A Personal Perspective on One Agency’s Experience
…provides the space free of charge, Ryan provides its own equipment and supplies. Communications between Ryan and Bridge staff is a priority. When Bridge clients enroll in the Ryan clinic,…
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Saving Real Lives in Virtual Space: Innovative Suicide Prevention Solutions
…handles 70,000 calls per month, we heard from our Facebook fans and others that many people in crisis do not feel comfortable picking up the phone. Now there is a…
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Symptoms of Depression and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury
…older.1 Military personnel and athletes take on increased risk, as both face the increased possibility of receiving blows to the head from combat or competition. Often, traumatic brain injuries are…
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Housing…Then and Now
…who are not able to maintain drug and alcohol-free living. Even at that intense level of case management, HALI needs to respond to public officials receiving complaints, house mates that…
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Preventing Depression in Teenagers
…Behavior Therapy (CBT) prevention program. We are testing this among girls and boys but hope to examine whether girls respond differently to the intervention. In future research, we hope to…
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Me First? A Personal Account of Self Care
…overwhelmed. These feelings of hopelessness and helplessness didn’t go away. I started feeling anxious, had difficulty sleeping and it became more and more difficult to get out of bed for…
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OCD and Anxiety in Postpartum Mothers
…on their obsessions, though they feared that they would. She characterized their presentation as consistent with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is defined as having obsessions or compulsions…
