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Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

Relias

This gives the mental health practitioner the opportunity for a longer conversation about the patient’s psychosocial history and can lay the groundwork for continued mental healthcare. Appointments are then scheduled one week later to focus on behavioral health with a mental health practitioner.

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Behavioral Addictions: Treatment Strategies for Clinical Practice

University of Connecticut

If the individual experiences cravings or mental preoccupation with the behavior when not engaging Upon completion, learners will be able to: Demonstrate practical knowledge on behavioral addiction and articulate its activity in terms useful in a clinical setting Describe the effects behavioral addictions Describe the process for diagnosing behavioral (..)

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. Her diagnosis is 'paranoid schizophrenia'; she believes others can read her thoughts and are constantly discussing her.