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Rethinking Mental Health in Ireland: Why Not a Trieste-Style Approach?

Mad in America

Key features of the Trieste model include: No Closed Psychiatric Hospitals: Traditional psychiatric hospitals were dismantled, replaced with open-door community mental health centres (CMHCs) operating 24/7. Funding must prioritise supported housing, vocational programmes, nutritional education, and community engagement initiatives.

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A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

Mad in America

How can we build a truly healing hospital that would love, nourish and heal all within, including the professionals who work there? The existing mental health hospitals are radically failing our communities despite the dedication and hard work of those working within them. What do we mean by healing?

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

He had multiple hospitalizations for psychotic and manic decompensations in his 20s, but he has done well over the past 10 years, which you attribute both to his medication adherence and minimal psychosocial stressors. US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; 1976:534-537. Everyone please stop (EPS). Psychiatric Times.

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The Path from Trauma to The Power of Nature: An Interview with Banning Lyon

Mad in America

An account of the abuse he suffered after being hospitalized in a psychiatric facility at age 15 and the long journey toward joy and awe that followed, his memoir was published this spring by Penguin Random House. If you don’t mind, if we could start with the chair—with your hospitalization. How did this story start?

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Kaine & Banks Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Support Mental Health Care and Substance Use Disorder Recovery

Mad in America

Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Jim Banks (R-IN), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Providing Empathetic and Effective Recovery (PEER) Support Act , bipartisan legislation to support mental health care and substance use disorder recovery. “Today, U.S.

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Book Review: ‘Hospital Psychiatry Fact Book’

Psychiatry Online

PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.

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Psychology’s Small Stories and the Call of the Other: An Interview with David Goodman

Mad in America

D avidGoodman is the Director of the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics and the Dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College , where he also teaches in the Department of Formative Education. Psychology was born in the middle of the 19 th century in Europe when the world underwent enormous transformations.

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