Treatment Works! The Recipe to Recovery and Storytelling as Medicine

• By: Tom Wright, MD Rosecrance Health Network
• October 1st, 2018
• community support, mental health, purpose, recovery, stigma reduction, storytelling, substance use disorder, treatment
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When I was training to be a child psychiatrist many years ago, I had a mentor who was one of the most well-known and beloved child psychiatrists in Illinois: Jay Hirsch, MD. Jay had many sayings, quotes, and “clinical pearls” he taught all of us and I continue to use today. One of my favorites...

Living with Addiction: The Role of the Family

• By: Phyllis Elliott, LCSW Parent Advocate
• July 1st, 2015
• addiction, advocacy, family, recovery, relapse, stigma, support groups, treatment
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As you can see by the letters after my name, I am a Social Worker by profession but one of the most significant roles in my life has been as a mother. For the last 6 years I have been the mom of a 28-year-old son who is suffering from the disease of addiction. Prior to my knowing about his drug use...

Kids Do Get Better: Values Driven Inpatient Care

• By: Joseph Commisso, PhD David Woodlock Four Winds Hospital
• October 1st, 2010
• assessment, children, hospitalization, mental health, treatment
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In New York State, and across the country, the story of how mental health care began begins with inpatient care provided in large institutions located in a bucolic rural environment. This “humane treatment,” in its day, was considered a progressive avant-garde form of care. For decades this...