Wednesday
May232012

Ideas for Improving Management Approaches to Billing / Paperwork 2012 

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Applying individualized, recovery based mangement to the challenge of getting the paperwork done to get paid for delivering services.

Monday
Dec052011

Transforming Staff/Client Relationships – 1994

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A set of definitions of the elements of Village based services, contrasting them with traditional services

Monday
Dec052011

Mark’s Goal Setting Ideas – 2000

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Concrete guidelines for case managers helping people set goals and grow

Monday
Dec052011

Recovery Based Service Delivery – 2006

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Implementing the Recovery Based System Planning Schema for individual staff.  Also “value driven and consumer centered” as a guide to decision making.

Monday
Dec052011

Ask Your Doctor about Recovery – 2007

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An advocacy guide and schema for more recovery based relationships with psychiatrists and other mental health professionals

Monday
Dec052011

This Facility is Psychosis Accessible – 2008

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A list of practical ways to make the value of “psychosis accessibility” a reality

Monday
Dec052011

14 Things you can do to Rebuild your life – 2010

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A list of practical things that people can do to help themselves to recover and rebuild their lives

Monday
Dec052011

Confidentiality, Integrated Services, and Recovery – 2011

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An effort to rethink confidentiality to a create “Recovery Based HIPPA Training”

Monday
Dec052011

Four Levels of Recovery Practice – 2009

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A checklist description of four transformed levels of practice – recovery enhanced practice, recovery based practice, community integration, and community development inspired by four levels of leadership skills – direction, support, linkage, and networking

Monday
Dec052011

What is Recovery Based Practice? – Outline – 2010

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A list of concrete practices that are recovery based for staff who say “I’m already doing recovery.”

Monday
Dec052011

Taking Strengths Seriously – 2011

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An analysis of four different perspectives of strengths based work - social determinants of health, protective factors, self efficacy, and building resilience by finding strengths in struggles

 

 

Monday
Dec052011

Working towards Services for all Substance Abusing Mentally Ill People – 1994

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My version of the NIMH four stages- engagement, persuasion, active treatment, and relapse prevention as a practical guide to dual diagnosis services    

Monday
Dec052011

Creating a Dual Diagnosis Treatment Culture – 2004

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Dealing with the emotional issues underlying our difficulties working with substance abusing people

Monday
Dec052011

Integrating Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment within a Recovery Framework – 2006

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A vision of the possibilities of the implications of a truly integrated approach to dual diagnosis

Monday
Dec052011

Friends with Families - 1997

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Some musings on the difficulties working with families and an approach based on being “replacement peers” instead of “replacement families”

Monday
Dec052011

Advice for Families – 2009

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An e-mail from a friend asking for help for parents of someone recently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia led to this response  

Monday
Dec052011

Challenging the Suicide Status Quo – 1999

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A bold rethinking of suicide prevention from a person centered, subjective point of view worth considering given the Village’s remarkably low suicide rate.

Monday
Dec052011

Forming Treatment Relationships – Reach Out and Touch Someone - 2001

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A set of six practical techniques for engaging people

Monday
Dec052011

American Refugees: The Village as Ellis Island - 2002

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Reconceptualizing homeless people as “refugees in their own country” and our services as refugee services including practical implications

Monday
Dec052011

Who are the Mentally Ill Homeless? - 2003

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My reflections on the “actual” diagnoses of mentally ill homeless people and the serious limitations of DSM for this group of people