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Addressing Racism and Racial Trauma in Behavioral Healthcare: A Review With the Experts

Relias

For behavioral health providers, addressing racism and racial trauma in behavioral healthcare is crucial. At our 2021 Impact Nation conference , we sat down with three experts in the field of behavioral healthcare and its intersection with racism and racial trauma. Addressing the Impact of Racial Trauma in Behavioral Healthcare.

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Women Working In Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

Professor Petra VĂ©rtes (UK) used genetics to improve understanding of the biological underpinnings of Schizophrenia in 2017. Professor Emily Holmes, MQ founding trustee Women Creating Revolutionary Treatments In 2016, Dr Jennifer Wild (UK) developed a treatment for PTSD in healthcare workers that has a 90% success rate in reducing symptoms.

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CY 2022 Medicare Quality Payment Program for Clinical Social Workers: Frequently Asked Questions

Social Work Blog

MIPS was designed to tie payments to quality and cost efficient care, drive improvement in care processes and health outcomes, increase the use of healthcare information, and reduce the cost of care. Adherence to Antipsychotic Medications for Individuals with Schizophrenia. 15 other provider types participate in the QPP.

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Your Healthy Outlook Can Promote Resilience and Recovery in Older Adults

Relias

Older adults in healthcare settings and long-term care facilities are more likely to have a behavioral health disorder than those who live in the community, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Part of this care includes building resilience in older adults.

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Accept your fate

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That’s folks living with conditions like schizophrenia & bipolar disorder who are discharged back to GP, often with no care plan. And yet I cannot get healthcare. NHS commissioners decided a decade or so ago that the NHS would no longer provide ongoing care to people with ongoing serious mental ill-health.

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Social prescribing is a lovely idea but it won’t make up for the care I’m not getting

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NICE guidelines and local healthcare policy specify that I need and should be provided with ongoing care for my ongoing serious health condition. However, there are a number of problems with social prescribing, especially as it impacts on people with serious long-term mental ill-health. I speak from personal experience.

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Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?

Society of Clinical Psychology

For example, when study subjects endorsed a brain (as opposed to environmental) cause for schizophrenia, they rated an affected individual as more likely to be dangerous and less likely to recover (Kvaale, Gottdiener, & Haslam, 2013). Tim Strauman, PhD is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University.