Evidence-based practices for individuals with severe mental illness.
Over a short period of time, evidence-based practice (EBP) has revolutionized thinking not only in the health care field, but also in education and throughout many other human service fields (Fixsen, Naoom, Blase, Friedman, & Wallace, 2005). The fundamental reason for favoring EBPs, which are practices that have rigorous...

Mental health care parity signed into law; starts in 2009: health plans can decide what to cover.
After a 12-year fight led by mental health advocates, patients, families, clinicians, and a handful of members of Congress, some 113 million Americans will soon have equality of coverage between their benefits for physical health care and mental or behavioral health care. The Paul Wellstone and Pete...

Law requires equality for mental health coverage.
After a 12-year fight led by mental health advocates, patients, families, clinicians, and a handful of members of Congress, approximately 113 million Americans will soon have equality of coverage between their benefits for physical health care and those for mental or behavioral health care. The Paul Wellstone...

Mental health issues in the criminal justice system.
9780789037701 Mental health issues in the criminal justice system. Ed. by Daniel W. Phillips. Haworth Press 2007 283 pages $65.00 Paperback HV6133 The number of inmates who suffer from mental illnesses...

Parity's poison pill.
ITEM: The New York Times for October 6 reported: "More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental health treatments because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses. The requirement, included in the economic...

MEDICAL MEMOS.
COLUMN: MEDICAL MEMOS Dr. Bruce Haffty, a Worcester native who is the associate director of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, was presented the "Leadership in Patient Care" award recently at the 13th annual Award of Hope Gala and Benefit Auction hosted by the Cancer Institute of...

Deadline Extended to Submit Nominations for Depression Awards Program.
Winners Can Receive Up to $15,000 Each to Donate to Nonprofit of Their Choice NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The deadline to submit nominations for this year's Welcome Back Awards, a national awards program that recognizes heroes in the depression community, has been extended by one...

Nicotine's new appeal: mimicking the addictive compound's action in the brain could lead to new drugs for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and schizophrenia.
First, let's clear the air: Nicotine invites addiction, and it employs a delivery device that's been killing people for centuries. But let's also be honest: Nicotine has some attractive qualities. Smokers use it to calm jitters or perk themselves up. It's a common (if ill-advised) tool for weight control....

Video: IAVA and Ad Council Launch National PSA Campaign for Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Time for Veterans Day, Campaign Directs Veterans to the First and Only Online Community Created Exclusively for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans NEW YORK, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to help ease the transition and readjustment challenges facing Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in their return...

Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy.
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy. By Eric G. Wilson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 176 pp., $20.00. In 1621 Robert Burton published The Anatomy of Melancholy, and now, nearly 400 years later, Eric Wilson has given us what amounts to an apology for...