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Support Whole Health through Medical Monitoring
We know that individuals with mental health and substance use conditions are at greater risk for chronic medical conditions – such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and COPD – than the general...
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Integrating Primary and Behavioral Healthcare: Risky Business?
If you and I could talk, I would tell you that as behavioral healthcare organizations increasingly integrate primary care into the services they provide, they are taking on tremendous additional risk –...
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Care through Integration: How primary care physicians may be the next step in...
It’s an unfortunate statistic, but more than half of all U.S. residents have experienced a traumatic event, including domestic abuse, sexual assault, neglect, or a natural disaster. For families and...
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GLIDING TOWARD CHANGE WITH MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
As a figure skater, my two single blades gliding across the ice had to work together. Movement involves a series of coordinated footwork, choreographed to counterbalance each jump, spin and curve along...
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On the Road with Case to Care
High caseloads. Shifting roles. New expectations. How do behavioral health staff providing direct care and their supervisors manage constant change and stressful environments? As the behavioral health...
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Deep-Rooted Issues Require Deep Provider Investment
How Does the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless Do It? Extreme trauma is commonplace at the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, a Denver-based nonprofit provider organization that provides integrated...
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Passion and Sensitivity: The Cornerstones of Responding to Trauma in the LGBT...
Back in 1978 Chase Brexton Health Care was a small volunteer operation serving gay men affected by the just emerging AIDS epidemic. Now, it’s a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that provides...
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Can We Prevent Disability from Serious Mental Illnesses?
Examining Outcomes of New Youth Psychosis Treatments Last month, the National Council for Behavioral Health welcomed Dr. John Kane from North Shore LIJ to present on the recently published clinical...
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Addressing Alcohol Use in Health Care
Alcohol is the most widely used and abused substance in the United States. We are used to having wine at the dinner table, toasting special occasions with champagne, relaxing with a beer and bringing...
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How important is social connectivity to health?
Social connectivity – spending time with friends and family, taking part in group activities or having a sense of community – may be among the most important predictors of health. Study upon study...
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