Agency Cuts Waiting Time for Mental Health Care
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Agency cuts waiting time for mental health care
For five years before it began changing operating procedures in March, Journey Mental Health Center maintained long waiting lists for addicts and young people seeking mental health care, and simply wouldn't accept new adults for mental health treatment … Read more on 77Square.com
Slow progress in mental health service as tide goes out on Victorian-era hospitals
These teams are supposed to offer a range of treatment options, such as talk therapy, that promote a recovery-based approach to mental ill-health, replacing an increasingly outmoded and heavily medicalised approach. But, seven years after A Vision for … Read more on Irish Times
Advocates: Mental health treatment saves lives
Mental health advocates say Ohio has so far failed to integrate mental health into the larger health care picture and to support community-based treatment after transitioning away from asylums more than 20 years ago. “Nobody should be surprised that … Read more on Mansfield News Journal
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