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on Recovey |
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Advance
Directives - use an advance directive as a crisis plan and
as part of
WRAP. |
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Workforce Issues with Recovery-Based Care
Transformation |
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WRAP, Peer Support and Recovery:
Tools for System Change |
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Implementing Recovery-based Care from
East to West |
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Living with
voices - useful articles on coping with this common and
distressing symptom. |
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Schizophrenia & Recovery - resources for recovery from
schizophrenia. |
| Partners in Recovery
- Panel: Integrating Psychiatry into the Recovery Process, at
the Adult System of Care Conference, April 26-28, 2000, in Santa Clara. The key note speakers
were Jay Mahler, an activist in the consumer
survivor movement, and Patricia Deegan Ph. D., Director of Training at the
National Empowerment Center. Pat
Deegan, Ph.D., soul-felt talk revealing how the mental
health system has so often impeded patients' road to recovery, and how we can do
better. |
| Mental
Health Recovery: What Helps and What Hinders?
- National Research Project for the Development of Recovery
Facilitating System Performance Indicators releases report.
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| Recovery
from Schizophrenia - excerpt from Finding Hope in Schizophrenia:
Healing and Hope for Everyone In the Family by Louise Loots Thornton. Thornton is the mother of three children.
Two have been diagnosed with mental illness. Her son, diagnosed with
schizoaffective disorder, has been living with the symptoms for over 20 years.
Her daughter has a dual diagnosis and severe depression. Louise has been a member of NAMI/SCC for over 15 years and co-teaches the
Journey of Hope class in Watsonville. She
is an English teacher at Gavilan College.
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Seeking alternative treatments for depression - for
30%-50% drugs simply do not work. |
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| Someone Believes
in Me - Article by Daniel B. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., author of PACE:
Personal Assistance in Community Existence - An Alternative to P/ACT,
about the strength of healing that people who have significantly
recovered from mental illness received from having someone believe in
them. |
| "We've
Been Misled by the Drug Industry," by Daniel B. Fisher.
Editors Note: We believe that in many cases
medications are the key to recovery, as do many individuals: comments
on Dan Fisher's article. |
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| Wellness Action
Recovery Plan- Notes from a recent talk by B.
J. North and Sharon Kuehn, on WRAP: The Wellness Action Recovery Plan, a
program of self-help and recovery started by Mary
Ellen Copeland, a mental health recovery educator and author. Sharon
Kuehn |
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| Psychosocial
Treatments in Psychotic Disorders by Nancy A. Huxley, Ph.D., and
Ross J. Baldessarini, M.D. - The revolution in treatment of psychotic
disorders as biological disorders has led to a trend to undervalue and
under-utilize psychosocial interventions. |
| Recovery
from Schizophrenia is possible - A very large group of consumers has
achieved remarkable recovery. They are people who, in spite of ongoing
symptoms, have carved out a life. - From Monitor on Psychology, Feb.
2000 |
| Studies
show that early intervention in schizophrenia may forestall the
worst long-term outcomes for this devastating brain disorder. |
| Schizophrenia
- A handbook for families - published by Health Canada, this
approaches treatment with more than just medication. |
| Not
long ago I was asked to speak and be available to answer questions
at a meeting of our local chapter of the National Alliance for the
Mentally Ill (NAMI). The participants were either individuals being
treated for a mental disorder or family members. I was struck by the
first question, "How do we find a psychiatrist who will both
prescribe medications and talk to us?" As I looked at the audience,
they all nodded in affirmation that this was a significant problem. |
| Psychotherapy
not only can lead to clinical improvement in patients with
psychiatric disorders, but also can favorably influence their brains and
physiology as well, increasing scientific evidence shows. - Psychiatric
News July 6, 2001. |
| Treatment
of psychosis without using psychiatric medications - letter from Dr.
Loren Mosher. |
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Individual Mental Health Rehabilitation Services include
services to assist a client in improving, maintaining or
restoring various community living skills such as functional
skills, daily living skills, social skills, and leisure
skills. |
| Family
Response to Chronic Illness - Excerpts from the book Family Process
by Peter Steinglass. |
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| Santa Cruz
Mental Health Services... |
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| Advocacy... |
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National
Empowerment Center, National Mental Health Consumers'
Self-Help Clearinghouse and CONTAC funding at risk for FY 2003. |
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California
Governor Davis signs AB 1421 - Involuntary Confinement
Bill. |
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Congress Adjourns for Election Campaign Season
Without Acting on Mental Illness Insurance Parity Bill or
Funding for Research and Services Programs. |
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Federal legislative update - August 2002. |
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Advocacy needed for HHS-Labor Appropriations Bill for FY 2003.
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Your letters are needed in SUPPORT of SB 1289 by Senator Ray Haynes. It would prohibit California school personnel from recommending psychotropic drugs for a
child. We believe such recommendations should only
come from a physician or psychiatrist. |
| PBS
Documentary on John Nash airs April 28th. This
documentary again raises questions of accuracy in the
movie, A Beautiful Mind. |
| The
debate over whether people with severe mental illness should be
forced to accept treatment was stoked anew Thursday, June 14, 2001, with the release of
a California study. The study by the Rand Corp., a think tank in Santa
Monica, found that mental patients might benefit from forced treatment
— if it is supplemented significantly with support services. One of
the report's main conclusions was that California's mental
health system is underfunded. |
| More
on the debate over forced psychiatric care and
families' struggles to control their loved ones. (From
USAToday - Health) |
| Stigma
- The Most Unjust Assessment One Person Can Make About
Another, Before Even Meeting That Person! |
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a result of the evidence it has heard in its first
session in Berlin over the weekend
of June 30/July 1, 2001, the Russell Tribunal is convinced
that the serious abuse of human rights in the name of
psychiatry is widespread but largely unrecognized. |
| On
Friday, June 22, 2001, Assemblywoman Helen Thomson
withdrew her bill, AB 1421 for
consideration this year due to lack of Senate support and
budget funding. |
| Testimony of Dr. Fred
Frese, NAMI national
board member, on June 20, 2001, before the House Veterans' Affairs Committee,
Subcommittee on Health. Dr. Frese testified on behalf of NAMI and the NAMI
Veterans Committee on the need to improve access to treatment and services for
our nation's veterans with severe mental illnesses and their family members. |
| AB1800
- Why forced psychiatry is not the right approach,
comments by Senator John Burton. (Feb., 2001) |
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| Psychiatrist
Loren Mosher & David Oaks Speak on Recovery - Mad Pride, The
Movement for Human Rights and Alternatives in the "Mental Health
System" hosted a panel in San Francisco on January 5, 2001.
In it, Dr. Loren Mosher spoke on Biopsychiatric Ideology as an
Impediment to Recovery, and David Oaks, spoke of the movement to Resist
the Rise of Forced Psychiatry. (Jan., 2001) |
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| Stigma
of Mental Illness - People with psychiatric
disabilities are shunned. Ensconced in a separate array of
interventions that are isolating and insulating, people
with psychiatric disabilities are also discredited with a
mental-health specific language. |
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