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Trauma Assessment for Women Receiving Mental Health Services
The National Institute of Mental Health states that in any given year 25% of adults in the United States are diagnosable for one or more mental disorders. Of that 25%, 6% meet the criteria for severe mental illness. Women are not more likely to meet the criteria for a diagnosis however; women are...
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Mental Health Care Monitoring Teams
It is now known that some mental health care providers in New York City can fail some seriously mentally ill people. Some people try to get treatment and can’t. Others, who have been getting treatment in a program, are dropped without warning or apparent reason. Some people stop taking their...
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Inequality in the Effects of Disaster Trauma in Women
Over the past decade, the U.S. has seen an increase in large scale disasters both man-made and natural, from 9-11-01, the Virginia Tech and the Fort Hood Shootings to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ike. These events have the potential to create states of acute emotional distress in people who are...
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Editorial: New York’s Medicaid Reform Portends Major Changes in Behavioral Health Service Delivery
The 27-member Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in January made a series of far-reaching recommendation pertaining to the delivery of mental health and substance abuse services (taken together, behavioral health services). The MRT, comprised of stakeholders from...
