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Mental Health Research: Denver’s Homeless Street Youth – characteristics and treatment challenges
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Denver’s Homeless Street Youth – characteristics and treatment challenges. In 2004 Denver’s homeless youth population was estimated to include approximately 850 young adults between the ages of 12 and 24. With at least 1500 homeless youth in the state of Colorado. For the purpose of this post I will limit the discussion to homeless street youth. There are other situations which could result in a teen leaving home and turning to the streets, these are some of the more common ex...
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Mental Health Research: March 2011
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Monday, March 14, 2011. Integrating Data Instruments into Clinical Practice. One issue that MHCD has looked at recently in improving care of mental health consumers, is around the use of data instruments that Evaluation and Research Department uses to collect information on consumer recovery, and how to translate this back to the consumers, resulting in more insight about their treatment progress? In combination, these two instruments allow for multiple perspectives on the consumer’s recovery, as w...
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Mental Health Research: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Research on Mental Health and Recovery from Mental Illness. We are the Research Institute. At the Mental Health Center of Denver. And although technically we were just funded on May 2010, we have been doing research on mental health for the last 10 years. We have been doing research in many areas associated with both Adults. We also maintain another blog. Where we speak much more about recovery from mental illness and substance abuse. If you are interested in learning more a...
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Mental Health Research: Evidence based practices
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Monday, October 25, 2010. Currently, one of the most important areas in healthcare is accountability. As part of this movement toward accountability, the mental healthcare industry and their stakeholders tend to talk about Evidence Based Practices. EBP) as a way to link programs to desirable outcomes. Evidence based practices can be found in multiple areas: from Education to Mental Health. And within mental health you can find them from medication ( Kentucky Medication Algorithm;. In fact, Tanenbaum.
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Mental Health Research: Client Suicide and Clinician Response: Ensuring Policy Guidelines and Clinician Safety
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010. Client Suicide and Clinician Response: Ensuring Policy Guidelines and Clinician Safety. In looking at issue of suicide within mental health field, we know that a person who suffers from mental illness, is more likely to be at risk for suicide. According to the Mental Health America website. It appeared there was more of a propensity for clinicians from institutional settings to be more at risk for having experienced a client suicide. This would make sense in that institutio...
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Mental Health Research: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010. Client Suicide and Clinician Response: Ensuring Policy Guidelines and Clinician Safety. In looking at issue of suicide within mental health field, we know that a person who suffers from mental illness, is more likely to be at risk for suicide. According to the Mental Health America website. It appeared there was more of a propensity for clinicians from institutional settings to be more at risk for having experienced a client suicide. This would make sense in that institutio...
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Mental Health Research: More about evidence based practices
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010. More about evidence based practices. One of the biggest problems facing many treatments is the fact that many times, individuals show improvement just because they are told (or they believe) that they are receiving some wonder-therapy (or drug). This is so prevalent in clinical trials that people speak about the “ placebo effect. Or comparisons against a placebo control? Maintains a website with links to several organizations where such information can be found. This is a ver...
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Mental Health Research: February 2011
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Denver’s Homeless Street Youth – characteristics and treatment challenges. In 2004 Denver’s homeless youth population was estimated to include approximately 850 young adults between the ages of 12 and 24. With at least 1500 homeless youth in the state of Colorado. For the purpose of this post I will limit the discussion to homeless street youth. There are other situations which could result in a teen leaving home and turning to the streets, these are some of the more common ex...
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Mental Health Research: Resillence
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Monday, January 10, 2011. On resilience, he points out the “definitional ambiguity in the resilience construct.” Through this article I hope to provide a brief overview of the etiology and evolution of resilience while highlighting some of the past and recent research. Hopefully this information will help to inform our future application and efforts to foster resiliency in our own lives and those around us. Resilience-research-and-educational-reform/) in which she discusses the importance of change in th...
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Mental Health Research: September 2010
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Thursday, September 30, 2010. Mindfulness and Mental Health. Understanding the use and benefits of mindfulness required more in-depth research, much of which lead to resources rather than answers. For example, Dr. Daniel Seigel has written several books on the process of incorporating mindfulness based practice with psychotherapy: Mindsight. And The Mindful Brain. Catastrophe Living, The mindful Waythrough Depression. And Wherever You Go, There You Are. Article and an abstract of the second MBSR. Last we...
