
The Newsletter highlights events and programs developed and conducted at the Center as well as current trends in the psychiatric rehabilitation field.
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In order to maintain confidence in our interventions as well as to ensure that they are more widely known and brought into use, the field of psychiatric rehabilitation must turn a critical eye to the fundamentals... |
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One of the driving forces behind the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship is the desire to reconcile the “science to service” gap and the need for rigorous and innovative research. |
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A Recovery Education Program engaging students by using Photovoice to explore health and wellness issues as experienced by adults with psychiatric disabilities. |
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The life span of people with psychiatric disabilities is decreasing at a staggering rate. At present, people with psychiatric disabilities have a life expectancy that is 25 years shorter than that of the general public. |
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While the recovery vision for people with psychiatric disabilities has been put forward to guide policies and practice in state... |
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There are considerable leadership challenges in public mental health arenas. Mental health leaders are subject to directives from all levels of executive and legislative bodies, the judicial system's constant... |
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This newsletter provides resources for program administrators, managers, policy makers, and others about the implementation and use of outcome measurement. The drive toward... |
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The Certificate Program is a specific adaptation of psychiatric rehabilitation technology developed over the last 25 years at the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. It is structured... |
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In 1993, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) began offering courses in its newly developed Associate of Science Degree Program in Psychiatric... |
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This issue of Recovery and Rehabilitation highlights three different recovery education resources that have been used extensively and have also been successfully adapted by many consumers... |
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The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a challenging time. One begins to leave behind the familiarity, structure, and support of school and family life and gradually embraces new... |
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The purpose of this newsletter is to discuss the concepts of assessing and developing readiness and to explain the distinctions between the readiness training technology and the practitioner tools... |
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Over the past twenty years, consumers of mental health services have developed and implemented numerous self-help initiatives to... |
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To create an opportunity for people who experience psychiatric disability to acquire the needed skills and supports to compete in the world of work, the Training for the Future service program... |
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The use of alternative approaches to mental health care can be substantially helpful to people living with severe mental illness as they cope with fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, and stressors that are often... |
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The mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation needs of underserved and diverse populations have come to the forefront of the field through... |
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In February 2000, the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University launched an innovative pilot program to assist people with psychiatric disabilities in their journey of recovery. This program... |
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In an effort to help rehabilitation counselors in state vocational rehabilitation systems improve their skills to build and sustain... |
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