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Mental Health News
Friday's Progress Notes - December 18,
1998
Mental Health Information - Vol. 2 Issue 43
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CONTENTS:
1. Mental health courts
2. Caring for a dying child
3. Mental illness in the elderly
4. Marijuana facts for parents
5. Children and grief
6. Unethical managed care practices
7. Emotional eating
8. ADHD in girls
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1. BAZELON CENTER
The Role of Mental Health Courts in System Reform
This document examines the use of mental health courts in the United States as a response by communities to the increasingly common arrest and incarceration of people with serious mental illnesses.
www.bazelon.org/issues/criminalization/publications/mentalhealthcourts/index.htm
2. PARTNERSHIP FOR CARING
When A Child Is Dying
The smallest patient offers the biggest lesson.
http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/child_article.html
3. APA MONITOR
Mental Illness among Elderly Americans Expected To Become A Greater Concern
Fifteen million elderly people are expected to suffer from some kind of psychiatric illness by the year 2030.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec99/nl4.html
4. NIDA
Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know
Marijuana is the most often used illegal drug in this country.
http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/Marijuana.html
5. ERIC DIGEST
Children and Grief
This Digest discusses psychological tasks that appear to be essential to children's adjustment, how children understand death and react to the death of a loved one, and how parents and teachers can help children cope with loss.
6. NATIONAL COALITION OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND CONSUMERS
Eleven Unethical Managed Care Practices Every Patient Should Know About
Americans want more than affordable health care--they also want ethical health care. Ethical standards are needed to protect patients, to assure honesty, to maintain minimum standards of quality, and to prevent the wasteful and fraudulent use of health care funds.
http://www.nomanagedcare.org/eleven.html
7. ATHEALTH.COM
Emotional Eating and Binge Eating Disorder
Athealth.com is pleased to welcome Ellen Shuman, Director of the Acoria Eating Disorders Treatment Center in Cincinnati, and Dr. Sandy Matthews, a licensed psychologist at the Acoria Eating Disorders Treatment Center, who answer questions about emotional overeating and binge eating disorder.
http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/BingeInterview.html
8. ATHEALTH.COM
Gender Issues in the Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD: An Interview with Kathleen Nadeau, PhD
Athealth.com is pleased to welcome Kathleen Nadeau, PhD, who shares her expertise on the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD.
http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/particles/interview_nadeau.html
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