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The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward Epistemic Humility

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It involves clinicians setting down any agenda of treatment planning with prescribed objectives and goals (at the rushed pace of insurance companies), and instead listening patiently: taking the time to understand a person’s context and all its complexity before we jump to any diagnostic conclusions.

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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

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For the next few years, I navigated the labyrinth of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy policies, which hindered communication about the right mental health plan for my son. So his hospitalization nearly doubled his separation from his family. We were kept in the dark.

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College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL) - Untitled Article

College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL)

The College for Behavioral Health Leadership Signs Historic Mental Health 7-Pillar Roadmap to Stem Crisis in Mental Health and Substance Use Care Roadmap for Recovery Includes Focus on Early Intervention, Emergency Crisis Response, Leveling of Racial and Economic Inequalities in Health Care, Parity in Payment by Health Insurance Plans, Among Other (..)

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

The Situational Approach Workplace mental health policies and practice have had a huge impact on industry and the workplace, including an enormous cost burdenboth human and economic.