UMDNJ-Psychiatric Rehabilitation – A powerful introduction by experts in Psychiatric Rehabilitation explaining the importance of people that have overcome the ravages of mental illness helping others with mental illness find their way. UMDNJ Peer to Peer training programs provide important expertise to peer counselors helping them demonstrate to others what is possible when recovering from a mental illness.

 

The Canadian Forces and the Canadian Psychiatric Association: Allies in …

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… women who have mental health injuries. I want to thank Dr. Fiona McGregor and the CPA for their leadership as we move forward in partnership to assist our injured members in their recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration," said General Walt …
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State Mental Health Cuts Hit Low-Income Patients Hard

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"The newer services … that are helping people stay in communities — supportive housing, psychiatric rehabilitation — those are the services that we are unable to adequately fund." Across the country, states facing severe financial shortfalls have …
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Battle over mental health

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John H. Lynch and other state officials with violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Nursing Home Reform Act for their failure to provide clinically necessary and cost-effective community services to avoid …
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When will doctors recognise the potential harm of psychotropic medications?

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After a professional lifetime as a GP, and twenty three years also running a rehab, I do not share the enthusiasm of psychiatrists and GPs for prescribing mood-altering pharmaceutical drugs. In sixteen years as a fully NHS doctor, eventually with a …
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