by Jack Carney | Apr 17, 2012 | Mad In America
If you log onto the website of the New York State Office of Mental Health at www.omh.ny.gov, you’ll find out that less than three thousand individuals are hospitalized at any one time in the State’s ancient state mental hospitals, euphemistically known for the past...
by Jack Carney | Apr 7, 2012 | Mad In America
Just a few final words on this issue. One of the readers of the blog I posted on March 27 on madinamerica.com identified himself as an experienced social worker working as a program director. In response to the question posed in the post’s title “1984 & DSM5...
by Jack Carney | Mar 27, 2012 | Mad In America
Where are the social workers? Where are the NASW and its local and state-wide chapters? For that matter, where are the peer-run and -led advocacy and service organizations? Over 12,000 individuals, mental health professionals and other stakeholders, have publicly...
by Jack Carney | Mar 12, 2012 | Mad In America
Judging from the responses of several readers, certainly not all, to my previous post of March 7, “Poverty & Mental Illness: You Can’t Have One Without the Other,” poverty is not an issue customarily twinned with serious mental illness. Which is not surprising...
by Jack Carney | Mar 7, 2012 | Mad In America
If you’ve spent any time in the public mental health system, you know that folks diagnosed or labeled as having serious mental illnesses are poor. If you’ve been poor or worked with poor folks, you know that many poor folks suffer from affective and cognitive...
by Jack Carney | Feb 10, 2012 | Mad In America
Given the length of this blog and the subject matter it addresses, I’ve divided it into two parts. Part II appears immediately below, Part I in a separate posting. Thanks for your patience and interest. PART II – ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED, STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THEM...
by Jack Carney | Feb 7, 2012 | Mad In America
Given the length of this blog, I’ve divided it into two parts. Part I appears immediately below; Part II will be posted soon. PART I – WHAT MENTAL HEALTH HOMES ARE AND WHAT THEY’RE NOT On the ground reality is about to trump rhetoric. Whether you subscribe to my...
by Jack Carney | Jan 26, 2012 | Mad In America
Just a few days ago, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, perhaps the foremost legal advocacy organization for persons with disabilities in the country, issued its “vision of community integration” for the disabled, listing the “key principles” that should be...
by Jack Carney | Jan 19, 2012 | Mad In America
You can’t have one without the other. I’ll explain as we go along. As 2011 was winding down, SAMHSA issued what it termed its “… working definition of ‘recovery’ from mental disorders and substance abuse disorders …” Specifically, recovery is to be understood as “a...
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