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Person-Centered Care

Famcare

Traditionally, after reviewing the case history and a brief initial interview, patients are assigned a diagnosis and “told what is good for them.” Case notes are kept confidential even from the patients themselves. The caseworker retains total authority over the patient’s treatment plan usually focused on symptom reduction.

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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

The states primarily funded these hospitals through taxes until the Medicaid program was created in 1965. I’ve detailed high profile cases based on media reports and my interviews with family members. The IMD Exclusion must be repealed because it is the main reason that inpatient psychiatric hospitals have eliminated so many beds.

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News Items – May 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

“Finding therapists and mental health providers that have that specialty in providing children’s mental health services, as well as working holistically with the entire family, and also providers that are open to accepting Medicaid reimbursement for payments,” Tillman said. However, this mindset can be difficult for patients to let go of.

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News Items – May 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

“Finding therapists and mental health providers that have that specialty in providing children’s mental health services, as well as working holistically with the entire family, and also providers that are open to accepting Medicaid reimbursement for payments,” Tillman said. However, this mindset can be difficult for patients to let go of.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Expand Medicaid: Less “neglect.” You can hear Joe Shapiro of NPR discuss his investigation on The Imprint podcast The interview starts at 16:40 in. We should remove criminalization of women who are pregnant and taking drugs," Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said in an interview.