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Behavioral Healthcare for Older Adults: It’s All About Resiliency
…to community-based behavioral healthcare for older adults. I view SPOP as a true pioneer in the field and a model for how other cities and communities can support the well-being…
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Innovative Delivery of Therapy for Older Adults with Depression
…older adults – “Do More, Feel Better.” Do More, Feel Better With our colleagues in Seattle and Tampa, we developed “Do More Feel Better” to be offered to community-dwelling older…
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The Behavioral Health Workforce Crisis: Past, Present, and Future
First on the list of topics for this issue of Behavioral Health News was “The Workforce Crisis Today.” That’s interesting because the workforce “crisis” is anything but new. For example,…
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Integration: A History of Promise
…and physical plant requirements, from the size of examination rooms down to the closets, make it expensive for community-based providers to upgrade and retrofit their clinics to be certified for…
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) – Now Approved for OCD
The last few months have seen major advancements of TMS in the treatment of psychiatric illness. In August TMS was approved by the FDA for the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,…
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We Need to Do More Than Just Talk About Mental Illness
…with mental illness respond to treatment. But in order to help the millions of Americans who are suffering, we need leaders who will come together to raise awareness, ensure access…
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Trauma and “Whole Person” Healthcare
…does not attend to “whole person” health, each individual’s complex behavioral and primary health conditions and needs. The days of siloed and singularly focused practice are obsolete. People with complex…
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Veterans Heroic Battle with the Opioid Epidemic
…population. Every Veterans Day we celebrate the service of all U.S. Military Veterans. We know that this courageous group has been protecting American’s freedom at home and abroad. As clinicians…
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Why Trauma Informed Care with Vulnerable Populations?
…be compromised in their ability to give informed consent (U.S. National Library of Medicine). There are many populations that fit this definition of a vulnerable population including: those with disabilities…
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Commentary on Treating Vulnerable, Mentally Ill Patients
…us. (Under the provisions of the ACA “more than half of the 730,000 federal and state prisoners reentering the community each year are estimated to have been eligible for either…
