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Does Listening to the Family Violate HIPAA? What Clinicians Need to Know When Working with Children and Vulnerable Adults
Over time, good clinicians frequently come to similar conclusions. One of those conclusions is that family involvement in treatment can help the person in therapy find deeper and healthier relationships with important people in their lives. While it is not always possible to “fix what is...
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Assisting Grieving Families to Find Closure While Maintaining Compliance with HIPAA
The most fundamental goals of Harm Reduction and Buprenorphine Programs are to keep people alive and safe. Despite the best efforts of a very dedicated SUD workforce, over 107,000 people died of overdose deaths in 2023. Behind every overdose death is a family or friends in mourning. Often, they are...
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Stigma and Recovery: New Approaches to Old Challenges
Thomas R. Insel, MD stated, “Psychiatry is the only part of medicine where there is actually greater stigma for receiving treatment for these illnesses than for having them” (Insel, NIMH Report 2006). There are many aspects to the stigma surrounding mental illness. It manifests itself as a...
