CMHS CONSUMER AFFAIRS E-NEWS NOVEMBER 3, 2009 Recovery to Practice: A SAMHSA Initiative To help recovery become a greater part of mental health practice nationwide, on October 1, 2009, the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Office of the Associate Director for Consumer Affairs, within...

For the second USPRA conference in a row, OT practitioners held the only guild- specific event at the conference. This year we held an OT luncheon during the conference topical lunch event. No other disciplines (social workers, rehab counselors, psychologists) held such a meeting...

Recovery to Practice (RTP) Weekly Highlights June 2, 2011 Volume 2 Issue No. 20 To access the RTP Weekly Highlights and other RTP materials please visit: http://www.dsgonline.com/rtp/resources.html Sewing a Mental Illness Recovery Banner By Mark Ragins, M.D. Many people are dissatisfied with our...

The Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Counseling Professions of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ is seeking folks with lived experience of mental illness to act as peers to young adults in hopes of reducing stigma. This exciting new project, “It’s Okay to Talk...

I am excited to report that we are finalizing our agenda and plans for promoting occupational therapy at the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation (USPRA) Conference being held June 29-July 2. If you work in the areas of psychiatric rehabilitation, community mental health, psychiatric vocational rehabilitation...

Glenn Close Family Hopes To Deconstruct And Eliminate "Toxic" Stigma By Jean Arnold National Stigma Clearinghouse News Of The Week October 24, 2009 Bring Change 2 Mind offers encouragement and help: "This is where the misconceptions stop" Take a beautiful accomplished...

Reprinted from Recovery to Practice Weekly Highlight September 3,2010, Issue No.17, SAMHSA Patient-Centered Care: It Takes a Village An E-Alert by: The Commonwealth Fund The term "patient-centered care" has been in use for a long time, but what does it really entail? In a new Health...

The following editorial appeared in the LA Times and Denver Post by Dr. Mark, Ragins, psychiatrist and proponent of the Recovery Model. Please share this rational response to the recent Colorado shooting. A good article to discuss students and colleagues. Life after Aurora Posted: 07/27/2012 01:00:00...

MINDS ON THE EDGE: Facing Mental Illness is a multi-platform media project that explores severe mental illness in America. The centerpiece of the project is a television program that will air on PBS stations in October 2009. This video component is part of a national initiative that includes an extensive...

What Recovery Means for [Behavioral Health] Acute Care Thursday, September 16, 2010 3:00—4:30 P.M. (Eastern Standard Time) Featuring: Maggie Bennington-Davis, M.D., Chief Medical and Operating Officer, Cascadia Behavioral Health Center Gayle Bluebird, RN, Peer Networking Consultant...

Reprinted from Recovery to Practice Weekly Highlight No. 8 - June 25, 2010 (SAMHSA) by Larry Davidson, Ph.D., Recovery to Practice Project Director As the Recovery to Practice initiative gets underway, there are a number of common questions that keep popping up related to recovery, the...

Larry Davidson, Ph.D., and Priscilla Ridgway, M.S.W., Ph.D. Reprinted from Recovery to Practice Weekly Highlight July 16, 2010, Issue No.11, SAMHSA What if a person has no goals? This question is raised often by providers who are concerned that the people they work with have given up on whatever hopes...

Recovery to Practice (RTP) Weekly Highlights January 21, 2011 Volume 2 Issue No. 3 To access the RTP Weekly Highlights and other RTP materials please visit: http://www.dsgonline.com/rtp/resources.html by Larry Davidson, Ph.D., RTP Project Director One response that some mental health practitioners...

Dear USPRA (United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association), Thank you for your support in enabling us to conduct the OT Practitioner Roundtable at the 2009 USPRA conference. By all accounts, the meeting was a success, and attendees unanimously felt that the roundtable helped to make the...

Description: This FREE HRC webcast airs on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 12:00pm ET. Presenters will discuss trauma-informed care and how it impacts services in a drop-in center for youth and young adults experiencing homelessness. Presented by Kathleen Guarino and Ayala Livny Wednesday, May...

Dear colleagues, I am an OT educator and mental health practitioner and has always felt that OT can and should be a vital component in mental health recovery. I have felt so strong about this that I have worked tirelessly to promote our profession among the other disciplines and organizations affiliated...

Fresh Air WHYY (NPR) July 13, 2010 Two years ago, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat wrote a piece in the New York Times Magazine called Dr. Drug Rep, in which he told his story of being paid to push the anti-depressant Effexor to his colleagues. Carlat joined Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies...

Understanding recovery is essential for anyone new to work in the mental health field; however, even the most seasoned worker still has much to learn in order to fully understand the recovery process and implement that understanding into practice. Psychiatric rehabilitation promotes recovery...

by Larry Davidson, Ph.D. and William L. White, M.A., Reprinted from Recovery to Practice Weekly Highlight August 13, 2010, Issue No.14, SAMHSA As noted in a previous Recovery to Practice Weekly Highlight, a number of common questions keep popping up related to recovery, the nature of recovery...

It is with great sadness that I learned of the passing of Judi Chamberlin, who died Saturday January 16th at age 65. Taking her inspiration from the leaders of the civil rights movement, Judi was an early leader of the movement she called Mad Pride — a movement for the rights and dignity of...

by Larry Davidson, Ph.D., Recovery to Practice Project Director Reprinted from Recovery to Practice Weekly Highlight July 2, 2010, Issue No.9, SAMHSA Following up on last week’s highlight, another commonly asked question that has emerged in relation to the Recovery to Practice initiative is...

Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Date of Review: September 2010 Source: http://nrepp.samhsa.gov/ViewIntervention.aspx?id=208 Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is a manualized group intervention for adults with mental illness. WRAP guides participants through the process of identifying...

June 15, 2010. The Carol T. Mowbray Early Career Research Award is presented in memory of Dr. Carol Mowbray, a dedicated researcher in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation. The award is presented to an emerging social scientist conducting high quality research on...

What better place to “Expand the Horizons of Psychiatric Rehabilitation” than the beautiful Boise, Idaho! That’s right…mark your calendars for June 13-17, 2010! USPRA has already begun busily planning the educational content of their 2010 conference. Conference workshops will...

I am excited to report that we are finalizing our agenda and plans for promoting occupational therapy at the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation (USPRA) Conference being held June 29-July 2. If you work in the areas of psychiatric rehabilitation, community mental health, psychiatric vocational rehabilitation...