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Overcoming withdrawal can feel like an insurmountable hurdle. However, Comprehensive Psychiatric Center offers safe and supportive outpatient detox programs to ease the process. Our team provides medical supervision and personalized care to ensure a comfortable detox experience. Take the first step towards recovery. Read our blog, "Untangling the Web: Exploring the Interplay Between Depression and Substance Abuse:" https://buff.ly/4audWJG

Navigating New Beginnings: Embracing Patience with Psychiatric Medication Embarking on a journey with psychiatric medication requires more than just taking pills—it demands patience and understanding, both from yourself and those around you. As you start this new chapter, remember to give yourself the gift of time. Adjusting to medication can be a journey filled with ups and downs, and it's okay to take things one step at a time. Have you found patience to be a valuable ally in your medication journey? Share your experiences below, and let's encourage each other to embrace the process with compassion and resilience. #Patience #PsychiatricMedication #MentalHealthJourney #SelfCare #Wellness #Resilience

As mental health advocates, it is important to be aware of the rights and protections afforded to individuals who are inpatient at psychiatric hospitals in New York State. Patients deserve care that respects their dignity and personal integrity, while receiving treatment that is both respectful and effective. Here are some key rights for inpatients in New York State psychiatric centers: - Patients have the right to receive care tailored to their needs, ensuring respectful and effective treatment. - Patients have the right to be free from unnecessary restraint or seclusion. - Informed consent is essential for surgical procedures and other treatments. - Patients can choose to participate in or refuse research studies. - Patients should be involved in discharge planning, and their rights continue even after leaving the hospital. It's important to remember that if you believe your rights (or someone else’s) are being violated, help is available through the Mental Hygiene Legal Service, hospital Boards of Visitors, and the New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs. Let's continue advocating for mental health awareness and empowerment! 🌟

Dr. Amanda Barnard, DBH, LCSW's culminating project, "Integrating Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Food Pharmacy Interventions," targets nutritional deficits in rural patients with serious mental illness. Discover how this program combines psychiatric rehabilitation and food pharmacy services to enhance patient outcomes in rural healthcare settings. Learn more about Dr. Barnard's DBH Culminating Project: https://ow.ly/3nqM50QSQP7

Memory loss disrupting daily life might be a sign of Alzheimer's or dementia. These conditions slowly impact memory, thinking, and reasoning. If you recognize any of the 10 warning signs, take action – schedule an appointment with your doctor. Family Caregivers contribute 83% of the support provided to older adults, demonstrating unwavering dedication and love for those impacted by Alzheimer's or dementia. Learn more about our at-home psychiatric services https://lnkd.in/gdmT-9Ap #NationalCaregiversDay #AlzheimersDementiaCareEducationWeek #Support #homehealthcare #FunFactFriday

Sam van Kalkeren, OPG’s Director of Aging Services, discusses how to help a loved one faced with a dementia diagnosis. He gives excellent information on how to communicate with a loved one to ensure their voice is heard as they navigate this difficult path. Sam talks about the benefits of having a care partner and what type of support they can offer the family. It is vital to have a care partner if the ailing family member lives out of state. We touch on what happens when someone with a dementia diagnosis gets a psychiatric admission and give excellent tips on keeping the loved one safe. This revisited episode contains great information to help your aging parent handle cognitive decline. #MentalHealthPodcast #AgingParents #DementiaSupport #ParentSupport #DementiaDiagnosis #Alzheimer’sSupport #CareGiver

In claims for compensation for a psychiatric injury, the Courts distinguish between two types of victims: primary and secondary. In Australia, a secondary victim in medical negligence claims is someone (almost always a family member) who has directly witnessed, or more commonly, has witnessed the aftermath of, medical treatment that has caused a patient to suffer an adverse outcome. Secondary psychiatric injury damages claims are increasing in both number and size.   Join us for our next edition of First Thursday Club, where BN’s Robert Samut will examine the recent common law developments in this area of the law in the UK and what impact they may have in Australia. This session will also explore what claimants need to prove to establish a secondary psychiatric injury claim, as well as the ways in which individuals can best respond to and defend secondary psychiatric injury claims. Find out more and register here: https://lnkd.in/gdSbfx2U

As mental health advocates, it is important to be aware of the rights and protections afforded to individuals who are inpatient at psychiatric hospitals in New York State. Patients deserve care that respects their dignity and personal integrity, while receiving treatment that is both respectful and effective. Here are some key rights for inpatients in New York State psychiatric centers: - Patients have the right to receive care tailored to their needs, ensuring respectful and effective treatment. - Patients have the right to be free from unnecessary restraint or seclusion. - Informed consent is essential for surgical procedures and other treatments. - Patients can choose to participate in or refuse research studies. - Patients should be involved in discharge planning, and their rights continue even after leaving the hospital. It's important to remember that if you believe your rights (or someone else’s) are being violated, help is available through the Mental Hygiene Legal Service, hospital Boards of Visitors, and the New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs. Let's continue advocating for mental health awareness and empowerment! 🌟

The ultimate goal is to instill hope and strengthen the natural support system. We work cooperatively with the client AND the family. Other goals of the program include but are not limited to: - Improve school related outcomes, such as attendance, grades and graduation rates - Decrease out-of-home placements - Improve family/youth relationships - Decrease substance use/abuse - Decrease psychiatric hospitalizations - Transition into age appropriate services Increase health and wellness

This shortage of beds has real consequences for people with SMI. Some wait months in jail despite not yet being found guilty of a crime. Others are denied admission despite being critically ill. And still others are discharged prematurely onto the streets to free up beds, where they may grow sicker and die. When most or all of a state’s beds are used for patients who are involved with the criminal legal system, it leaves people with SMI in need of long-term hospital-level care who have no criminal behavior with few options for treatment. The shortage of civil beds means patients who rely on state hospitals for care, such as those who have SMI and/or cannot afford care in private hospitals, often wait over a year for a bed to open to obtain the care they need. What needs to change? Increase the number and availability of state hospital beds. Strategies to recruit and retain staff for state hospitals. Create and fund infrastructure for step-down and other discharge facilities to ensure that those who do not require hospital-level care are able to access care in other settings. The number of state psychiatric hospital beds has declined to a historic low of 10.8 beds per 100,000 population. An increasing number of the remaining beds are being utilized for forensic patients, leaving fewer and fewer beds for civil patients. Prioritizing admission of forensic patients is perpetuating the criminalization of mental illness and effectively creating a system where someone must be arrested in order to access a state hospital bed. Forensic bed waits also remain an issue, with significant and sometimes tragic consequences.