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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Dr. E. Fuller Torrey on California’s Mental Health Catastrophe
Leading schizophrenia expert (and controversial compulsory treatment advocate) Dr. E. Fuller Torrey addresses 100 doctors at San Francisco General Hospital about the dire, declining, and morally unacceptable conditions for some severely mentally ill in the State of California. Watch the presentation … Continue reading
Social Security Grinch Denies Increments for SSI Benefits
Just in time for Christmas, the Social Security Administration has written a letter to all its Supplemental Support Income benefits. It reports bad news. See what it is and what PsychOdyssey thinks about it here.
Financial Aspect of Need: Special Needs Trusts
As taught in PsychOdyssey 101, Financial is one of the major Aspects of Need of anyone with a psychiatric disability. Family members thinking ahead for loved ones with psychiatric disabilities must make provisions for their financial security without if possible … Continue reading
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Book Review: Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices
PsychOdyssey reviews Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices: A Textbook, edited by Robert E. Drake, Matthew R. Merrens, and David W. Lynde. All who wish and need to know where mental health practice is heading should read this important text about a … Continue reading
Posted in Aspect of Need, Educational, Medical, Psychiatric
Tagged david w. lynde, evidence-based mental health practices, evidence-based practice, family psychoeducation, iddt, mattew r. merrens, medications, mental health, mental illness, psychiatric rehabilitaiton, robert e. drake, Supported Employment
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Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness
New on PsychOdyssey “Watch…”: MINDS ON THE EDGE: Facing Mental Illness is a multi-platform media project that explores severe mental illness in America. The centerpiece of the project is a television program which aired on PBS stations in October 2009. … Continue reading
Most Vulnerable In The Hands Of The Least Educated?
Studying the details of the proposed closing of Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey (click here to see our 12/10/10 testimony), we learned disquieting information about the very high percentage of direct contact staff workers in jobs with no, repeat … Continue reading
The Clubhouse Movement, on PsychOdyssey TV
One of the leading resources of psychiatric rehabilitaiton is peer support–individuals with SMIs (serious mental illness) helping each other. One of the pioneering modalities for this is the Clubhouse movement, made prominent by Fountain House in New York City, which is “dedicated … Continue reading
New PsychOdyssey TV Program on Supported Employment
Work is good for recovery. But getting and keeping a job can be an enormous challenge for an individual with a psychiatric disability. One of the proven evidence-based practices of psychiatric rehabilitation is supported employment. Denise Higgins, Employment Specialist at Catholic Charities, Trenton, NJ, talks to Tom … Continue reading
PsychOdyssey Testifies On Hagedorn Hospital Closing
In the fall of 2010, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced the State’s intention to close Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital in Glen Gardner, N.J. On December 8, 2010, Tom Pyle of PsychOdyssey Services presented testimony about the proposal to the New … Continue reading
Posted in Aspect of Need, Educational, Financial, Medical, Psychiatric, PsychoSystemics: Encounters with The System, Social
Tagged deinstitutionalization, Governor Chris Christie, Hagedorn Pscychiatric Hospital, institutionalization, New Jersey Mental Health Facilities Evaluation Task Force, NJ Division of Mental Health and Addictioon Services, Olmstead, psychiatric rehabiltiation
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New PsychOdyssey TV Program on Family Advocacy
Sally Osmer, mental health social worker and Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Mercer County, NJ Chapter, one of the most active NAMI chapters in New Jersey, talks with Tom Pyle of PsychOdysey TV about family … Continue reading
Posted in Aspect of Need, Educational, Legal, Political
Tagged Advocacy, Family Advocacy, NAMI, NAMI Mercer, NAMI NJ, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Sally Osmer
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