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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