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 [...]
In: Psychology
25 Dec 2009The crisis has spread to everywhere and even when signs of recovery are spotted here and there we are not out of the storm yet. Actually, we may have to wait for one or two more years to be back to “normal”.
The Mental Health Care System is no exception to this and is being hit [...]
In mental health residential environments one of the most difficult things is keeping the clients engaged with the programming and their challenging behaviors to a minimum. Every unit of every organization has a behavioral support system in place (along with structured activities) to achieve this objective. The efficiency and effectiveness of these systems will dictate [...]