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Addressing the Needs of the Perinatal Behavioral Health Workforce
The behavioral health care workforce, including mental health and substance use services, is facing mounting uncertainty at a critical moment. Under the recently passed, One Big Beautiful Bill Act [Congress.gov, 2025], federal loan restrictions will impose strict caps on the borrowing of future...
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Telehealth and Its Role in Expanding Workforce Capacity
The truth is that accessing healthcare is a part-time activity. There is the morning travel, the hour (or three) you spend waiting in line at the doctor’s office, the panic call to your boss about a late report, again. It is not only a nuisance, but it is a colossal waste of the most precious...
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The NYSPA Report: Federal and State Coverage of Telehealth and Its Role in Expanding Access to Mental Health Care
Following the COVID-19 public health emergency, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made permanent expansions to the coverage of telehealth under the Medicare program. CMS has greatly increased the number of services included on the permanent list of telehealth services and...
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Addressing America’s Silent Crisis: Maternal Mental Health
Maternal mental health in the U.S. is in crisis. Despite advancements in medicine and growing awareness around mental health, the emotional well-being of mothers has quietly deteriorated. This is particularly true during pregnancy and after childbirth. A recent study published in JAMA...
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Addressing Maternal Mental Health Through Connection and Care
The Transition Into Motherhood Becoming a mother is a profound transition—one that reshapes how a person sees themselves, their priorities, and their relationships. It’s a shift that can feel expansive and deeply meaningful, but also disorienting. With so much focus on the baby, it’s easy...
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Enhancing Equity in Adolescent Mental Health: Expanding Access to Comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Treatment
Over the last decade, the US has experienced a significant increase in mental health symptomology and suicidality among children and adolescents, with the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to an even greater increase. In 2021, the surgeon general deemed mental health concerns in children and...
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Leveraging Technology to Enhance Mental Health Services for Children and Families
Technology-driven approaches to mental health care have transformed the way services are delivered, making support more accessible and tailored to individual needs. Children and families can particularly benefit from this movement because digital tools enable novel pathways to the implementation of...
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Breaking Down Barriers to Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment Through Digital Innovation
While the rise of the sober curious movement and the growing availability of non-alcoholic options signal a shift away from drinking, alcohol use disorder (AUD) remains prevalent. At the same time, substance use disorder (SUD) affects over 46 million people aged 12 and older, according to the 2021...
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Using Technology to Personalize Behavioral Health Treatments
It’s no surprise that behavioral health providers are exploring how technology and artificial intelligence (AI) can improve patient care and support clinicians. Issues like burnout, the nationwide shortage of clinicians, and administrative burdens can be (at least) partially addressed by new...
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Future-Ready Social Work: Preparing the Workforce for Tomorrow’s Challenges
The mental and behavioral health fields are undergoing a massive change in how care is delivered, mainly due to technological advances like telehealth, AI/ML, wearables, and more sophisticated predictive modeling, to name a few. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, over 10,000 behavioral health apps have...
