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Mental Health Care

New Trends in Mental Health Care

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I’ve been writing about the hurdles that the mental health care system has been facing since the recession struck the country. What I haven’t written about is where this whole thing is going and which trends are surfacing. The trend these days is to shift from “monster units” that house 20 or more people to [...]

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The state of the Mental Health Care System in the US – Part 2

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Last December I wrote an article summarizing some of the consequences that the economic recession has brought to the Mental Health Care System and how the inadequacy of  some policies and practices have surfaced along with it. Today I’d like to expand on that topic mostly centering in the challenges that Residential Treatment Facilities which [...]

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