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First Webinar Series: Improving Care for Behavioral Healthcare Clients Seen in Emergency Rooms and Acute Care Settings
Posted on01. Feb, 2011 by admin.
The Institute for Behavioral Health Care (IBHI) launched a free three-part Webinar Series focusing on care of behavioral healthcare clients in Hospital Emergency Departments on and Acute Care settings on January 12, January 23 and February 9, 2011. Drawn from the curriculum and experience of IBHI’s first collaborative, this series shares learning and engages others [...]
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Reasons Patients Doubt Medication-Resistant Delusions in Schizophrenia
Posted on05. Nov, 2010 by admin.
Most Patients Have Self-Doubt; CBT May Help By Icelini Garcia-Sosa, MD and Michael Garrett, MD Psychiatric Times | October 29, 2010 http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/schizophrenia/content/article/10168/1708863 Summary Most delusional patients, even those with high positive symptom scores, may have at least 1 Reason for Doubt (RFD) that precedes a clinical intervention specifically directed toward encouraging doubt. These preexisting “islands [...]
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Donald Berwick is important to behavioral healthcare
Posted on18. Sep, 2010 by admin.
Excerpts from Donald Berwick is important to behavioral healthcare (Click here to go to MIWatch ( http://www.miwatch.org/ ) for other important news. ) When I told Don Berwick that people with a serious behavioral health problem generally die at least 25 years sooner than the average person, he was shocked and dismayed. Our conversation occurred [...]
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UAB study documents connection between depression and abdominal obesity
Posted on22. Jul, 2010 by admin.
June 9, 2010 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A new study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) confirms the relationship between depression and abdominal obesity, which has also been linked to an increased risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease. “We found that in a sample of young adults during a 15-year period, those who started [...]
