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How Research Is Advancing Our Understanding of OCD

NAMI

As NAMI and the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) come together to celebrate the accomplishments of Sabine Wilhelm, PhD, the winner of NAMI’s 2023 Scientific Research Award, we are reminded of the intricate nature of OCD and the critical importance of research in unraveling its complexities.

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2025 Election Begins March 1

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

MPS Positions : MPS Member, APA Fellow Personal Statement : In clinical practice, I have worked in a number of different settings, including a hospital-based IOP, solo private practice, a managed care organization, and now a school-based OMHC and a non-public level V school serving students with Autism.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

Mad in America

Every time I was in the hospital, they always had a little flier that said, ‘Know your Rights.’ For Barnes, the Shield volunteer, Russell’s experience reminds her of stories she’d been told about her maternal grandfather who was committed to a state hospital. But that number is so swamped. There are so many people needing help.

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Maryland Enacts a “Draconian” Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program

Mad in America

As of 2023, such laws were on the books in 47 states and the District of Columbia—leaving just Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maryland as holdouts. In September 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court, which bears similarities to AOT, became law.

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Grant, Interrupted: An Introduction and Report Back from Oregon

Mad in America

Peer respites are an innovative and cost effective alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, and these resources are badly needed across the country. There are many different respite structures; our peer respite will be a non-clinical alternative to hospitalization and other interventions for people in crisis.