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The BHN Summer 2022 Issue is Now Online!

"Understanding the Impact of Stigma"

This special issue is the first of a two-part series on Stigma produced in partnership with the New York State Office of Mental Health

Articles in This Issue

Understanding the Impact of Stigma

- A Cruel Irony: Less Mental Health Stigma but Fewer Behavioral Health Clinicians

- A Paradigm Shift: Addressing Two Misrecognitions About the Stigma of Mental Illness

- A Real and Present Danger in the Fight Against Stigma

- Acknowledging the Effects of Intersectional Stigmatization

- Associative Stigma: An Unseen Force Impacting Mental Health Professionals and Service Users

- Consumer Perspectives: Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health, Chronic Illness, and Homelessness

- Coordinated Behavioral Care’s Mission to Destigmatize Workplace Mental Health

- From the Desk of Dr. Max, WellLife Network: Stigma and Mental Illness

- How Mental Health Stigma Drives Suicide Risk

- How the NYS Office of Mental Health is Addressing and Reducing Stigma

- How We as Practitioners Can Foster Stigma

- Improving Help-Seeking and Reducing Stigma Through Public Messaging

- Increased Access to Telehealth as a Means of Reducing Stigma

- Internalized Stigma

- Intersectionality in Behavioral Health: Serving Those With Membership in Multiple Stigmatized Groups

- Mental Health in Schools: Moving Stigma Out in the Open

- On Self-Stigma and Employment

- Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness: Peers Play a Critical Role

- Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS) Clients Share Their Lived Experiences of Stigma

- Some Thoughts Regarding Stigma: The Often Silent Obstacle to Mental Health and Substance Care Among African Americans

- Stigma Is Being Used as a Political Weapon: Reject It

- The Impact of Stigma on Mental Health Treatment for Children

- There Is Hope

- They Are Us

- Understanding the Impact of Stigma: The Balance Between Choice and Accountability

- When Internalized Ableism and Stigma Intersect

Addressing the Healthcare of New Yorkers

- Behavioral Health News Spotlight on Excellence – An Interview with Joseph Wilson, Peer Specialist with Services for the UnderServed

- The Transformative Power of Families Helping Families

Health and Wellness

- Breaking Down Barriers to Using Social Determinants of Health Data

- Drug Use Severity in Adolescence Affects Substance Use Disorder Risk in Adulthood

In the News

- Depression Detection Has Never Been More Important: PHQ-9 Enables Clinicians and Patients to Track and Address Depression With Combined Physical and Emotion Symptoms Score

- How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affects the Future of Behavioral Health Care

- Jarod Stern, Senior Managing Director at Savills, Joins Mental Health News Education Board of Directors

- U.S. Law Enforcement Seizures of Pills Containing Fentanyl Increased Dramatically Between 2018-2021

Resources in This Issue

Access Network

ACMH

Advantage Mosaic Group

AGK Business Solutions

Behavior Therapy Associates

Center for Career Freedom

Foothold Technology

Four Winds Hospital

Human Development Services of Westchester (HDSW)

Institute for Community Living (ICL)

Lamb Insurance Services

Mental Health Association of Westchester

Mindy Appel

New York Psychotherapy and Counseling Center (NYPCC)

New York State Psychiatric Association (NYSPA)

NextGen Healthcare

Outreach

Relias

Saint Joseph’s Medical Center

Search for Change

Services for the Underserved (S:US)

Vibrant Emotional Health

WellLife Network

Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS)

BHN Editorial Calendar

Fall 2022 Issue

The Behavioral Health System: Challenges Past and Present

Deadline: September 16, 2022

Winter 2023 Issue

Stigma: How We Can Make a Difference

Deadline: December 13, 2022

Spring 2023 Issue

The Impact of Behavioral Health on Families

Deadline: March 16, 2023

Summer 2023 Issue

Serious Mental Illness: History and Challenges Ahead

Deadline: June 14, 2023

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