A Patient Bill of Rights for Psychotropic Prescriptions: A Call for a Higher Standard of Care
With the unprecedented rise in the rate of prescriptions for psychotropic medication, this session defined a Patient Bill of Rights that is consistent with evidence...
Advancing the Dialogue: Medication and Mental Illness
In his book, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker investigates the astonishing rise in the number of people enrolled in government disability due to mental...
Children and Psychotropic Drugs: How Good is the Evidence?
Research on psychotropic medications is essential for prescribers to use drugs properly and safely — and for regulatory authorities to approve these drugs for public...
Exploring the Potential of Value-Based Purchasing in Maine
The United States spends much more on healthcare per capita than other wealthy countries, yet overall, health outcomes in the U.S. are worse than in...
Extending the Conversation: Creating Positive Culture in the Workplace
In this webinar, presented on March 17, 2017, three leaders from Maine behavioral health organizations, recognized for fostering outstanding workplace environments, discussed their efforts to...
This session offered an up-to-date critical review of psychiatric drug withdrawal, tapering, and dose reduction strategies described in the medical literature and recommendations for client-centered...
How Do Psychiatric Medications Shape Long-Term Outcomes?
In his book, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker investigates the astonishing rise in the number of people enrolled in government disability due to mental...
Human Rights Imperative for More Choice in Behavioral Health
David Oaks, a fearless consumer activist and advocate, provided a human rights perspective on the need for more non-drug choices in behavioral health care. Oaks...
Alternatives found in integrative medicine have begun to address the limitations of current psychiatric medications in the treatment of behavioral health conditions. Specifically, evidence-based research...
Suicide prevention in older adulthood is made challenging by the high lethality of older adults’ suicidal behavior; few survive their first attempt to harm themselves....
Living and Loving One Another in the Shadow of Suicide
Kate Braestrup, author and chaplain with the Maine Warden Service, gives the closing remarks at the 2016 Beyond the Basics in Suicide Prevention Conference.
This session explored the short term benefits and risks of psychotherapy versus medication for persons diagnosed with depression, anxiety and psychosis. A research- validated early...
This video of Ken Thompson, MD, “Putting Recovery Into Practice,” was filmed at the Acadia Hospital, Multidisciplinary Psychiatric Grand Rounds, on January 13, 2012.
Recovery Perspectives: A Conversation Between People in Recovery and Service Providers
In this compelling presentation, people with lived experience of recovery from co-occurring disorders discuss among themselves, and then with service providers, the issues of most...
An introduction to SAMHSA and a look at some of its strategic initiatives, this session highlighted SAMHSA’s position on alternatives to medication and how it...
2017 • Summit on Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorder
Embracing Substance Use Treatment and Recovery in Primary Care – A Community Approach
September 13, 2017 | Summit on Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorder: Embracing Substance Use Treatment and Recovery in Primary Care – A Community Approach...
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: Trauma as a Public Health Crisis and Implications for Human Services
This video is of a keynote address by Ann Jennings, PhD, at the 3rd Annual Co-Occurring Disorders Institute: Complexities of Trauma. The video was filmed...
The Evidence Is In: Why We Need to Develop Alternatives to Psychiatric Medications for Children
The medicating of children in our society with psychiatric drugs began with the prescribing of stimulants to children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder in the...
Understanding, Managing, and Treating Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
One of the most challenging problems for school professionals is dealing effectively with non-suicidal self-injury. Of special concern is that self-injury has recently moved from...
Young, Poor, and Drugged: How Antipsychotics Are Hurting America’s Disadvantaged Youth
New research shows that antipsychotic use by low-income and very low-income children in the United States skyrocketed in just under a decade. This has occurred...
