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.
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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 [...]
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: autism| discoveries
13 Feb 2008Autism Disorder is one of the most elussive conditions a mental health professional can come across. Firstly, it is difficult to precisely diagnose due to it´s broad severity spectrum (depending on very subtle manifestations and timing of the condition it could be filed under Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Rett Syndrome. And sometimes this subtle differences are [...]