This document summarizes an upcoming public forum on the opioid crisis hosted by William James College. The forum will feature thought leaders discussing innovative harm reduction strategies, approaches to disparities in access to treatment, and prevention programs. Speakers include experts from various fields and government officials such as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The goal is to gather experts to discuss combating the public health crisis of the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts.
How did we get here the evolving epidemic of addictive disease in the united ...Mrsunny4
The opioid crisis in the US is part of the larger epidemic of Substance Use Disorder, an equal opportunity brain disease, affecting over 40 million children, teens and adults. Addiction does not respect age, gender, ethnicity, income or zip code
Social Support as a Protective Factor for Youth Suicide: An Intersectional an...Dr. Corbin J. Standley
Social Support as a Protective Factor for Youth Suicide: An Intersectional and Socioecological Approach
Standley, C. J. - MA Thesis
Thesis submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology.
How did we get here the evolving epidemic of addictive disease in the united ...Mrsunny4
The opioid crisis in the US is part of the larger epidemic of Substance Use Disorder, an equal opportunity brain disease, affecting over 40 million children, teens and adults. Addiction does not respect age, gender, ethnicity, income or zip code
Social Support as a Protective Factor for Youth Suicide: An Intersectional an...Dr. Corbin J. Standley
Social Support as a Protective Factor for Youth Suicide: An Intersectional and Socioecological Approach
Standley, C. J. - MA Thesis
Thesis submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology.
September 7, 2016
Far too many people across the country are left dead, injured, or traumatized by community violence. Communities can be safer when neuroscience, public health strategies, and collective advocacy are aligned in practice and policy. This event convened experts to discuss the best next steps to fostering a broad science-informed advocacy movement to effectively address community violence.
Panelists
- Michelle Bosquet Enlow, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Associate in Psychology, Boston Children's Hospital; Affiliated Faculty, Harvard University Center on the Developing Child
- Shannon Cosgrove, MPH, Director of Health Policy, Cure Violence
- Fatimah Loren Muhammad, Director, Trauma Advocacy Initiative, Equal Justice USA
- Charles Homer, MD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Moderator: Robert Kinscherff, PhD, JD, Senior Fellow in Law and Neuroscience, Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and Petrie-Flom Center; Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Teaching Faculty in the Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program and for the Doctoral School Psychology Program, William James College; Faculty at the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior; and Senior Associate for the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
Part of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, a collaboration between the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
Learn more on the website: http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/battling-blood-in-the-streets.
The Psychosocial Drivers of Gender Based Violence in Matabeleland South: Zimb...iosrjce
As documented by Ndamba, Lunga and Musarurwa, (2013) gender based violence (GBV) is one of
the key drivers of HIV, high mortality rate, crime and other non-conforming behaviours. The purpose of the
study was to investigate the psychosocial drivers of GBV in Matabeleland South. The study employed both
quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The quantitative aspects included questionnaires that were
administered to women of child bearing age, whilst the qualitative aspect involved secondary data review,
interviews of key informants and focus group discussions. The population of man, women, and youths was used
to make reasonable inferences on the issues fuelling GBV in Matabeleland South. Purposive and random
sampling techniques were used to identify the ideal participants for the survey. The key findings were that:
Cases of GBV were actually understated by documented statistics, so were their causes and outcomes. The term
Gender Based Violence was noted a value-laden word and as a result, different stakeholders had their
operational definitions, with some associating it with Feminism. Recommendations made include - development
of strategies that ensure maximum freedom and entitlements; policies that ensure attainment of human rights
including the basic living rights by communities; strategic and systematic rehabilitation of victims of abuse;
revival of recreational centres; and enforcement of some laws that involve human rights so as to ensure that the
communities (as bio-psychosocial beings) leave peacefully with each other.
Behavioral Vaccines and Evidence Based Kernels: Non-Pharmaceutical Approaches Dennis Embry
In March of 2009, the Institute of Medicine issued a new report on the Prevention of Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People.1 Fundamentally, the report calls for ending the rationing of prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders (MEBs) among America’s children, youth and young adults. Continued rationing of access to scientifically proven prevention causes a serious threat to the country’s national security2 and to our economic competitiveness compared to 22 other rich countries.3 Such MEBs are also the leading preventable cost center for local, state and the federal governments.1, 4 These preventable MEBs cause health-care costs to continue to spiral up.
The IOM Report calls for a public-health approach to MEBs—basically like how America and Canada dealt with the polio epidemic, measles, mumps, car passenger injuries to children, and accidental poisoning from medications and toxic chemicals. Why is this necessary? America’s rates of some of these mental, emotional and behavioral problems are worse than other developed countries,5, 6 and rates of some of these problems have objectively increased over the past 20-50 years in America.7 The attributes of a public-health approach for MEBs are defined in the paper.
The paper discusses multiple examples of how public health approaches might reduce or prevent MEBs using low-cost evidence based kernels, which are fundamental units of behavior. Such kernels can be used repeatedly, which then act as “behavioral vaccines” to reduce morbidity or mortality and/or improve human wellbeing. This document calls for six key policy actions to improve mental, emotional and behavioral health in young people—with resulting wellbeing and economic competiveness of North America and reducing health-care costs.
Gang Membership, Violence, and Psychiatric Morbidityjeremy coid
Gang members engage in many high-risk activities associated with psychiatric morbidity, particularly violence related ones. The authors investigated associations between gang membership, violent behavior, psychiatric morbidity, and
use of mental health services. The study concluded that gang members show inordinately high levels of psychiatric morbidity,
placing a heavy burden on mental health services. Traumatization and fear of further violence, exceptionally prevalent in gang members, are associated with service use. Gang membership should be routinely assessed in individuals presenting to health care services in areas with high levels of violence and gang activity. Health care professionals may have an important role in promoting desistence from gang activity.
The Second Curtis J. Berger Symposium on Mental Health and the LawProgramThe Bridge
This is a copy of the program handed out at The Second Curtis J. Berger Symposium on Mental Health, "Assisted Outpatient Treatment in Context: Gaining Compliance in the Community". The program includes an agenda of the presentations as well as biographies on the presenters and panelists.
Mary Lou Mastro – 2014 nominee for Modern Healthcare's Community Leadership A...Modern Healthcare
Mary Lou Mastro – 2014 nominee for Modern Healthcare's Community Leadership Award.
The success of the healthcare industry depends on leaders who define themselves by leading efforts to change lives and contribute to their communities through their work. But many go above and beyond commitments central to their roles, reaching out to support causes that may be wholly unrelated to healthcare, but which build and sustain strong communities and the quality of life within them. Modern Healthcare's Community Leadership Awards was established to recognize these leaders while bringing attention to the worthy causes they support. Modern Healthcare's Community Leadership Awards was established to recognize these leaders while bringing attention to the worthy causes they support.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/section/community-leadership
The Social Determinants of Health – Social Psychiatry’s Basic ScienceUniversité de Montréal
Psychiatric Times
Home page teaser: From populations to patients.
Column: Second Thoughts
Link: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/-the-web-of-meaning-family-therapy-is-social-psychiatrys-therapeutic-branch
The Social Determinants of Health – Social Psychiatry’s Basic Science
May 29, 2024
Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FCAHS, DLFAPA, DFCPA
No disciple of the wise may live in a city that does not have a physician, a surgeon, a bathhouse, a lavatory, a source of water, a synagogue, a school teacher, a scribe, a treasurer of charity funds for the poor, a court that has authority to punish.
—Moses Maimonides1
In this column, I want to highlight our first, foundational branch of social psychiatry – psychiatric epidemiology and public mental health by focusing on the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). I consider SDoH the basic science of social psychiatry.
This presentation highlights faculty accomplishments and areas of research expertise from the UTSA College of Public Policy. The College of Public Policy educates the next generation of public servants at the local, state, national and international levels. The College’s faculty and students are engaged in teaching and learning, research, and service initiatives addressing critical community issues. The College prepares future leaders to advance public policy and practice that contributes to the public good and equips students to manage and advocate for better policy solutions to some of the most critical issues facing the community, nation and the world.
Mental health continues to be an important issue affecting so many Canadians. I wrote three stories for the series for the Canadian Nurses Association in partnership with the Mental Health Commission of Canada. The stories were: Reducing Stigma in Health-Care Settings; Suicide Prevention and Postvention Initiatives; and When Mental Illness and the Justice System Intersect.
September 7, 2016
Far too many people across the country are left dead, injured, or traumatized by community violence. Communities can be safer when neuroscience, public health strategies, and collective advocacy are aligned in practice and policy. This event convened experts to discuss the best next steps to fostering a broad science-informed advocacy movement to effectively address community violence.
Panelists
- Michelle Bosquet Enlow, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Associate in Psychology, Boston Children's Hospital; Affiliated Faculty, Harvard University Center on the Developing Child
- Shannon Cosgrove, MPH, Director of Health Policy, Cure Violence
- Fatimah Loren Muhammad, Director, Trauma Advocacy Initiative, Equal Justice USA
- Charles Homer, MD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Moderator: Robert Kinscherff, PhD, JD, Senior Fellow in Law and Neuroscience, Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and Petrie-Flom Center; Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Teaching Faculty in the Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program and for the Doctoral School Psychology Program, William James College; Faculty at the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior; and Senior Associate for the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
Part of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, a collaboration between the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
Learn more on the website: http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/battling-blood-in-the-streets.
The Psychosocial Drivers of Gender Based Violence in Matabeleland South: Zimb...iosrjce
As documented by Ndamba, Lunga and Musarurwa, (2013) gender based violence (GBV) is one of
the key drivers of HIV, high mortality rate, crime and other non-conforming behaviours. The purpose of the
study was to investigate the psychosocial drivers of GBV in Matabeleland South. The study employed both
quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The quantitative aspects included questionnaires that were
administered to women of child bearing age, whilst the qualitative aspect involved secondary data review,
interviews of key informants and focus group discussions. The population of man, women, and youths was used
to make reasonable inferences on the issues fuelling GBV in Matabeleland South. Purposive and random
sampling techniques were used to identify the ideal participants for the survey. The key findings were that:
Cases of GBV were actually understated by documented statistics, so were their causes and outcomes. The term
Gender Based Violence was noted a value-laden word and as a result, different stakeholders had their
operational definitions, with some associating it with Feminism. Recommendations made include - development
of strategies that ensure maximum freedom and entitlements; policies that ensure attainment of human rights
including the basic living rights by communities; strategic and systematic rehabilitation of victims of abuse;
revival of recreational centres; and enforcement of some laws that involve human rights so as to ensure that the
communities (as bio-psychosocial beings) leave peacefully with each other.
Behavioral Vaccines and Evidence Based Kernels: Non-Pharmaceutical Approaches Dennis Embry
In March of 2009, the Institute of Medicine issued a new report on the Prevention of Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People.1 Fundamentally, the report calls for ending the rationing of prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders (MEBs) among America’s children, youth and young adults. Continued rationing of access to scientifically proven prevention causes a serious threat to the country’s national security2 and to our economic competitiveness compared to 22 other rich countries.3 Such MEBs are also the leading preventable cost center for local, state and the federal governments.1, 4 These preventable MEBs cause health-care costs to continue to spiral up.
The IOM Report calls for a public-health approach to MEBs—basically like how America and Canada dealt with the polio epidemic, measles, mumps, car passenger injuries to children, and accidental poisoning from medications and toxic chemicals. Why is this necessary? America’s rates of some of these mental, emotional and behavioral problems are worse than other developed countries,5, 6 and rates of some of these problems have objectively increased over the past 20-50 years in America.7 The attributes of a public-health approach for MEBs are defined in the paper.
The paper discusses multiple examples of how public health approaches might reduce or prevent MEBs using low-cost evidence based kernels, which are fundamental units of behavior. Such kernels can be used repeatedly, which then act as “behavioral vaccines” to reduce morbidity or mortality and/or improve human wellbeing. This document calls for six key policy actions to improve mental, emotional and behavioral health in young people—with resulting wellbeing and economic competiveness of North America and reducing health-care costs.
Gang Membership, Violence, and Psychiatric Morbidityjeremy coid
Gang members engage in many high-risk activities associated with psychiatric morbidity, particularly violence related ones. The authors investigated associations between gang membership, violent behavior, psychiatric morbidity, and
use of mental health services. The study concluded that gang members show inordinately high levels of psychiatric morbidity,
placing a heavy burden on mental health services. Traumatization and fear of further violence, exceptionally prevalent in gang members, are associated with service use. Gang membership should be routinely assessed in individuals presenting to health care services in areas with high levels of violence and gang activity. Health care professionals may have an important role in promoting desistence from gang activity.
The Second Curtis J. Berger Symposium on Mental Health and the LawProgramThe Bridge
This is a copy of the program handed out at The Second Curtis J. Berger Symposium on Mental Health, "Assisted Outpatient Treatment in Context: Gaining Compliance in the Community". The program includes an agenda of the presentations as well as biographies on the presenters and panelists.
Mary Lou Mastro – 2014 nominee for Modern Healthcare's Community Leadership A...Modern Healthcare
Mary Lou Mastro – 2014 nominee for Modern Healthcare's Community Leadership Award.
The success of the healthcare industry depends on leaders who define themselves by leading efforts to change lives and contribute to their communities through their work. But many go above and beyond commitments central to their roles, reaching out to support causes that may be wholly unrelated to healthcare, but which build and sustain strong communities and the quality of life within them. Modern Healthcare's Community Leadership Awards was established to recognize these leaders while bringing attention to the worthy causes they support. Modern Healthcare's Community Leadership Awards was established to recognize these leaders while bringing attention to the worthy causes they support.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/section/community-leadership
The Social Determinants of Health – Social Psychiatry’s Basic ScienceUniversité de Montréal
Psychiatric Times
Home page teaser: From populations to patients.
Column: Second Thoughts
Link: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/-the-web-of-meaning-family-therapy-is-social-psychiatrys-therapeutic-branch
The Social Determinants of Health – Social Psychiatry’s Basic Science
May 29, 2024
Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FCAHS, DLFAPA, DFCPA
No disciple of the wise may live in a city that does not have a physician, a surgeon, a bathhouse, a lavatory, a source of water, a synagogue, a school teacher, a scribe, a treasurer of charity funds for the poor, a court that has authority to punish.
—Moses Maimonides1
In this column, I want to highlight our first, foundational branch of social psychiatry – psychiatric epidemiology and public mental health by focusing on the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). I consider SDoH the basic science of social psychiatry.
This presentation highlights faculty accomplishments and areas of research expertise from the UTSA College of Public Policy. The College of Public Policy educates the next generation of public servants at the local, state, national and international levels. The College’s faculty and students are engaged in teaching and learning, research, and service initiatives addressing critical community issues. The College prepares future leaders to advance public policy and practice that contributes to the public good and equips students to manage and advocate for better policy solutions to some of the most critical issues facing the community, nation and the world.
Mental health continues to be an important issue affecting so many Canadians. I wrote three stories for the series for the Canadian Nurses Association in partnership with the Mental Health Commission of Canada. The stories were: Reducing Stigma in Health-Care Settings; Suicide Prevention and Postvention Initiatives; and When Mental Illness and the Justice System Intersect.
This critical analysis explores the impact of substance abuse in America at both a global and local level. Topics of societal stigma, personal bias and drug decriminalization are among the topics explored.
Jay M. Bernhardt | President of Emerson College | Boston, MAJay M. Bernhardt
Health communication researcher Jay M. Bernhardt is the 13th president of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Bernhardt previously served as dean of the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. He also established the school's Center for Health Communication during his tenure at the top-ranked Travis County-based institution.
Elsewhere, he has performed high-level roles at the University of Florida, the University of Georgia, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The New Jersey native enjoys memberships to numerous honor societies and serves on the boards of several high-profile organizations.
Bernhardt has received various awards for his leadership and scholarship work. The 13th president of Emerson College is also a long-time mental health advocate and proudly supports a wide range of charities, nonprofits, and good causes. Beyond his professional work and other commitments, he enjoys art, theater, and experiencing new cuisines.
Current Role & Duties
Emerson College
Jay Bernhardt is the 13th president of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Bernhardt joined the easternmost Massachusetts-based college in 2023, previously serving as the University of Texas at Austin's Moody College of Communication dean since March 2016. Boston-based Emerson College also has campuses in California and the Netherlands.
Bernhardt is committed to serving the school's faculty and students with steady and caring direction and guidance from its Boston campus. The esteemed health communication researcher took over as the school's 13th president from interim principal Bill Gilligan. Gilligan had previously served as interim president at Emerson College since 2021.
Career History
Moody College of Communication
Bernhardt is the former dean of the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the Austin-based University of Texas's Communication College in March 2016. While serving as its dean, he became the founding director of its Center for Health Communication.
Before becoming dean, Bernhardt served as the school's interim dean from August 2015 until February 2016. He also spent the prior 20 months as a professor at the institution, where his primary appointment was in the Department of Communication Studies. Bernhardt further maintained a secondary appointment in the Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations.
Other Notable Roles
Digital Health Impact, Inc.
Jay Bernhardt founded Digital Health Impact, Inc. in Gainesville, Florida, in 2011. As Digital Health Impact's founder and president, he led operations dedicated to consulting on wide-ranging scientific and strategic applications and innovations.
He and his team also focused on digital health technologies, health communication, and social marketing for academic, governmental, nonprofit, and private-sector clients.
Suicide Prevention Training Policies for HealthCare Profess.docxfredr6
Suicide Prevention Training: Policies for Health
Care Professionals Across the United States
as of October 2017
Janessa M. Graves, PhD, MPH, Jessica L. Mackelprang, PhD, Sara E. Van Natta, RN, and Carrie Holliday, PhD, MN, ARNP
Objectives. To identify and compare state policies for suicide prevention training
among health care professionals across the United States and benchmark state plan
updates against national recommendations set by the surgeon general and the National
Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention in 2012.
Methods. We searched state legislation databases to identify policies, which we de-
scribed and characterized by date of adoption, target audience, and duration and fre-
quency of the training. We used descriptive statistics to summarize state-by-state
variation in suicide education policies.
Results. In the United States, as of October 9, 2017, 10 (20%) states had passed
legislation mandating health care professionals complete suicide prevention training,
and 7 (14%) had policies encouraging training. The content and scope of policies varied
substantially. Most states (n = 43) had a state suicide prevention plan that had been
revised since 2012, but 7 lacked an updated plan.
Conclusions. Considerable variation in suicide prevention training for health care pro-
fessionals exists across the United States. There is a need for consistent polices in suicide
prevention training across the nation to better equip health care providers to address
the needs of patients who may be at risk for suicide. (Am J Public Health. 2018;108:760–
768. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304373)
See also Caine and Cross, p. 717.
The number of suicides annually in theUnited States exceeds that of traffic
crashes or homicide, rendering it the 10th
leading cause of death.1 In 2013, 42 826 in-
dividuals died by suicide in theUnited States.1
The mortality rate for suicide has increased
24% since 1999 and is currently 13 per
100 000 people,which equates to 115 suicides
every day.2 Because of its high incidence and
potential for prevention, determining how to
most effectively prevent suicide is a public
health imperative.3
Health care professionals regularly en-
counter patients at risk for suicide. In an
Australian study, 75% of individuals who died
by suicide had seen a health care professional
within 3 months preceding their death.4 This
suggests health care professionals may play
a critical role in identifying at-risk patients and
in preventing suicide. However, health care
professionals are often not equipped with the
training necessary to effectively identify and
manage patients at risk for suicide.3,5,6 Even
among mental health providers, training in
suicide assessment and intervention is not
ubiquitous, despite calls for increased training
since the late 1980s.7–9 Patients at risk for
suicide may, therefore, be inadequately
identified and not receive appropriate
treatment.
In 2001, the US surgeon general released
National Strategy for .
Children and Families Forum Suicide Prevention for Children and AJinElias52
Children and Families Forum: Suicide Prevention for Children and AdolescentsBy Liza Greville, MA, LCSWSocial Work TodayVol. 17 No. 5 P. 32
With the release of the Netflix drama 13 Reasons Why in March 2017, social workers from middle schools to colleges and universities across the country found themselves plunged into conversations with adolescents and young adults around topics related to suicide. While many mental health professionals objected strongly to the series, saying it contains harmful messages about the inevitability of suicide, the ability to achieve revenge through suicide, the absence of helpful others, and insufficient messages about the availability of help and support, most professionals acknowledged that, apart from these concerns, the series opened a space for conversation on a topic that is shrouded in stigma, fear, pain, and misunderstanding.
By having an accurate understanding of the scope of the problem, confronting myths and imprecise language, and using best practices in screening, intervention, and prevention, social workers have a critical role in helping children, adolescents, and young adults move through a suicidal crisis to emotional wellness.
Data on Suicide
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide was the 10th-leading cause of death for all ages in 2013. Suicide was the third-leading cause of death among persons aged 10 to 14, and the second among persons aged 15 to 34, though middle-aged adults accounted for the largest proportion of suicides (56% in 2011). The percentage of adults having serious thoughts about suicide was highest among adults aged 18 to 25 (7.4%), followed by adults aged 26 to 49 (4%), then by adults aged 50 and older (2.7%) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015).
The following were noted among students in grades nine through 12 during 2013:
• Seventeen percent of students seriously considered attempting suicide in previous 12 months (22.4% of females and 11.6% of males).
• 13.6% of students made a plan about how they would attempt suicide in the previous 12 months (16.9% of females and 10.3% of males).
• Eight percent of students attempted suicide one or more times in previous 12 months (10.6% of females and 5.4% of males).
• 2.7% of students made a suicide attempt that resulted in an injury, poisoning, or an overdose that required medical attention (3.6% of females and 1.8% of males) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015).
New research presented in May 2017 at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting analyzed hospital admissions with a diagnosis of suicidal thoughts or behaviors and serious self-harm from 32 children's hospitals across that nation from 2008 to 2015. Researchers found the number of admissions has more than doubled during the past decade. The research found the largest increases among girls, and seasonal variations with the spring and fall having higher admission rates than summer (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017 ...
CHAPTER NINEMedicating ChildrenThis chapter is divided into se.docxDinahShipman862
CHAPTER NINE
Medicating Children
This chapter is divided into seven sections. Section One is an overview that discusses current trends in medicating children, problems the trends cause, and directions for the future. It also discusses developmental issues. Section Two focuses on stimulant medication and the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Section Three focuses on research on combined interventions and particularly the Multimodal Treatment Study (MTA study) of Children with ADHD. Section Four focuses on children taking mood stabilizers. Section Five focuses on antipsychotics and children. Sections Six and Seven focus on anxiolytics and antidepressants in children, respectively.
SECTION ONE: PERSPECTIVES, DILEMMAS, AND FUTURE PARADIGMS
Learning Objectives
• Understand the problematic increase in psychotropic medications for children despite a dearth of evidence of the effectiveness of these drugs.
• Have a general understanding of the impact of the FDA Modernization Act and the Best Pharmaceuticals Act for Children.
• Be able to state the “developmental unknowns” associated with giving kids psychotropic medications.
Thus far, we have explored the medical model and psychological, cultural, and social perspectives as they relate to psychopharmacology. In this chapter, we demonstrate that using psychotropic medications with children and adolescents raises particular problems and concerns from several perspectives. As discussed in Chapter Three, we frequently see explanations and justifications from the medical model perspective used to reduce childhood disorders to chemical and genetic problems, excluding crucial consideration of environmental traumas, developmental foreclosures, or life stressors.
We explore child and adolescent psychopharmacology primarily from the medical model perspective but complement this approach with information from the other perspectives (psychological, cultural, and social). We set the stage by exploring the current status of the treatment of children and adolescents with mental and emotional disorders. This chapter is structured differently from the others in this book. We begin by discussing the context from the social and cultural perspectives and the problems with prescribing psychotropic medications to children. Then we cover an introduction to stimulants used to treat symptoms of ADHD. Finally, we give the status of their current use since the last edition of the book if that is possible.
THE COMPLEX STATE OF THERAPY
Dr. Frank O'Dell, Professor Emeritus of Counseling in the College of Education and Human Services at Cleveland State University, has argued in all his lectures on counseling children and adolescents that the United States is an “anti-kid” society (Personal Communication, 2001). By that he means fewer and fewer therapists and psychiatrists choose to treat or continue to work with children in counseling. To support his argument, O'Dell points out that resources for childre.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
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Program Book_Opioid Crisis: Thinking Outside the Box
1. A public forum
Opioid Crisis:
Thinking Outside
the Box
Presented by William James College
A Convener of Thought Leaders
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
2. ABOUT WILLIAM
JAMES COLLEGE
William James College, founded in
1974, is the largest graduate psychology
program in New England, offering
unique training programs for mental
health professionals at the doctoral,
master’s and certificate levels from its
campus in Newton, Massachusetts. Its
graduates are highly skilled professionals
who care for diverse populations in a
variety of settings, including the schools,
the courts, the community, and the
workplace. The college is named for an
educator, innovator, and advocate who
championed diversity and promoted the
value of experiential education. Today,
William James College students carry on
the legacy of William James by applying
the lessons they learn in the classroom to
their work in the community, where they
are committed to meeting the needs of
the most vulnerable populations locally,
nationally, and internationally. For
more information about William James
College, visit www.williamjames.edu.
CONVENER OF
THOUGHT LEADERS
Opioid abuse has risen to epidemic
proportions in Massachusetts and across
the nation. There are evidence-based
interventions and new federal and state
policies aimed at ameliorating the crisis,
yet the mortality rate remains extraor-
dinarily high. This Forum will focus on
innovative harm reduction strategies,
approaches to racial and ethnic dispari-
ties in access to treatment, and state-of-
the-art prevention and early intervention
programs. After the great success of our
Gubernatorial Forum on Mental Health
in 2014, William James College looks
forward to gathering thought leaders to
discuss a critical health issue of our day.
The opioid epidemic is killing
nearly four people a day in
Massachusetts. We must use
every tool in the toolbox to
effectively combat this public
health crisis. Together, we need
to increase access to prevention,
intervention, treatment and
recovery services and end the
stigma associated with this
deadly disease.”
—Marylou Sudders, Secretary,
Executive Office of Health and
Human Services
By 2020, mental and sub-
stance use disorders will surpass
all physical diseases as a major
cause of disability worldwide.
People with a mental health is-
sue are more likely to experience
an alcohol or substance use
disorder than those not affected
by a mental illness.
3. Program
Opioid Crisis:
Thinking Outside the Box
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
1,000+
OPIOID DEATHS
In Massachusetts
in 2014.
OPENING REMARKS
David Herzog, MD
Marylou Sudders
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Carl Hart, PhD
Andrew Kolodny, MD
MODERATOR
Martha Bebinger
PANELISTS
Leonard Campanello
Jessie M. Gaeta, MD
Haner Hernández, PhD
Mary McGeown
Joanne Peterson
CLOSING REMARKS
Charles D. Baker
A. Kathryn Power, MEd
Between 2000-2013,
the rate of heroin
overdose deaths in the
U.S. quadrupled.
More Americans die
annually from drug
overdoses than in
motor vehicle crashes.
4. CHARLES D. BAKER
Governor of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
Since taking office in January, 2015,
Governor Charlie Baker has been making
Massachusetts a great place to live, work,
start a business and raise a family—while
delivering a customer-service orient-
ed state government that is as thrifty,
creative and hard working as the people
of Massachusetts. Governor Baker called
on an expert, bipartisan team to lead his
cabinet who are together fulfilling his
commitment to building stronger and
safer communities for our children and
families; keeping our roads and bridges
safe and reliable; protecting our natural
resources; and ensuring our schools and
students are successful and safe.
MARTHA BEBINGER
WBUR reporter and expert in
communications on the opioid crisis
Martha Bebinger covers health care and
other topics at WBUR, the NPR affiliate
in Boston. She has won dozens of region-
al and national awards in 17 years as a re-
porter, including the Nieman Fellowship
for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bebinger has a BA in Art and Semiotics
from Brown University and is working
on a MA in English at Boston University.
She is the mother of three adventurous
teenagers.
LEONARD CAMPANELLO
Chief of Police, Gloucester,
Massachusetts
Leonard Campanello was selected in
2012 as the Chief of Police for the City of
Gloucester. Previously, he worked for the
Saugus Police Department for 23 years,
serving as Assistant Chief of Police in
Saugus since 2009. In 2015, Chief Cam-
panello launched the Gloucester Angel
Initiative as a model to reduce addiction
in communities. Shortly thereafter, he
co-founded the Police Assisted Addiction
Recovery Initiative to support the Angel
Initiative and to assist law enforcement
Speakers
Charles D. Baker Martha Bebinger Leonard Campanello Jessie M. Gaeta Carl Hart
Haner Hernández Andrew Kolodny Mary McGeown Joanne Peterson A. Kathryn Power Marylou Sudders
5. entities that want to become part of the
solution to this epidemic. He has also
promoted “Alternative Policing” which
combines ideas from traditional policing
and community policing into a collab-
orative effort to reduce crime. Chief
Campanello holds a Masters in Criminal
Justice Administration from Boston
University.
JESSIE M. GAETA, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Boston Health Care
for the Homeless Program and Assistant
Professor of Medicine, Boston University
School of Medicine
Jessie Gaeta is the Chief Medical Officer
of Boston Health Care for the Homeless
Program, where she has practiced In-
ternal Medicine since 2002. She over-
sees the clinical practice of this unique
community health center that serves
12,500 people annually across dozens of
clinical sites including homeless shelters,
the street, and one of the first medical
respite programs in the country. Dually
board certified in Internal Medicine and
Addiction Medicine, Dr. Gaeta is current-
ly focused on interventions to mitigate
opioid overdose, including harm reduc-
tion approaches and expanded access to
medication-assisted treatment.
CARL HART, PHD
Associate Professor of Psychology in
the Departments of Psychiatry and
Psychology at Columbia University
and Director of the Residential Studies
and Methamphetamine Research
Laboratories at the New York State
Psychiatric Institute
Carl Hart, PhD is a Professor in the De-
partments of Psychology and Psychiatry
at Columbia University. He has published
nearly 100 scientific articles in the area
of neuropsychopharmacology and is
co-author of the textbook Drugs, Soci-
ety and Human Behavior (with Charles
Ksir). His most recent book, High Price:
A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discov-
ery That Challenges Everything You Know
About Drugs and Society, was the 2014
winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary
Science Writing Award. Recently, the city
of Miami issued a proclamation declaring
February 1, 2016 Dr. Carl Hart Day.
HANER HERNÁNDEZ, PHD,
CADAC II, LADC I
Brown University’s Center for
Alcohol and Addiction Studies
Haner Hernández, PhD, CADAC II,
LADC , is in long-term recovery from ad-
diction. Dr. Hernández is an Instructor at
the Brown University Center for Alcohol
and Addiction Studies and Director of
the Latino Behavioral Health Workforce
Training Program at Adcare Educational
Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts.
He is a Senior Consultant to the Massa-
chusetts Department of Public Health
Bureau of Substance Abuse Services. In
addition, Dr. Hernández serves on the
Board of Directors of the Massachusetts
Board for Voluntary Certification of Drug
and Alcohol Counselors and the Mas-
sachusetts Organization for Addiction
recovery (MOAR). He has a PhD in Public
Health from the School of Public Health
and Health Sciences at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
ANDREW KOLODNY, MD
Senior scientist at the Heller School
for Social Policy and Management at
Brandeis University; Chief Medical
Officer, Phoenix House Foundation;
Executive Director of Physicians for
Responsible Opioid Prescribing
Dr. Kolodny was previously the Chair
of Psychiatry at Maimonides Medical
Center in New York City. He has a long
standing interest in Public Health. Prior
to his position at Maimonides, he was
the Medical Director for Special Projects
in the Office of the Executive Deputy
Commissioner for the New York City De-
partment of Health and Mental Hygiene.
For New York City, he helped develop and
implement multiple programs to improve
the health of New Yorkers and save lives,
6. including city-wide buprenorphine
programs, naloxone overdose prevention
programs and emergency room-based
screening, brief intervention and referral
to treatment (SBIRT) programs for drug
and alcohol misuse.
MARY MCGEOWN
President and CEO, Massachusetts
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children
Mary McGeown has served as President
and CEO of MSPCC since 2012. Founded
in 1878, MSPCC has a proud history of
protecting and promoting the rights and
wellbeing of children and families and
provides services to more than 20,000
children and adults. Previously, Ms.
McGeown was
MSPCC’s Vice President for Programs
and has held key leadership positions for
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
She served as Chief of Staff to the Secre-
tary of Health and Human Services, the
Deputy Commissioner and the Chief of
Staff at the Department of Youth Services
as well as the Director of Public Affairs
for the Department of Mental Health.
JOANNE PETERSON
Founder, Executive Director,
Learn to Cope Inc.
Joanne Peterson is the Founder and Exec-
utive Director of Learn to Cope (LTC),
a non-profit peer-led support network
established in 2004. Ms.
Peterson’s journey started as a young
girl with siblings experiencing issues
with mental illness and addiction. Years
later, when she discovered that her own
son’s experimentation with prescription
drugs led to an opioid addiction, she felt
empowered to create change. Ms. Peter-
son designed LTC to spread messages of
prevention, education and advocacy to
individuals and their families. Today her
son is in long-term recovery and LTC has
22 chapters throughout Massachusetts
and an additional chapter in Florida.
A. KATHRYN POWER, MED
Regional Administrator, Region One for
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA)
A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., is the Regional
Administrator, Region One for the Sub-
stance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), an operat-
ing division of the U. S. Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS). In
that role, she represents the Administra-
tor at the regional level in fulfilling the
agency’s mission of reducing the impact
of mental illness and substance abuse on
America’s communities. She provides
authoritative advice and assistance on
behavioral health policies and innova-
tions for use in the delivery and financing
of prevention, treatment and recovery
services, develops regional perspectives
on SAMHSA initiatives, and is a visible
advocate for individuals with mental
illnesses and substance use disorders
within the federal government and across
the region.
MARYLOU SUDDERS
Secretary, Executive Office of Health and
Human Services
Appointed as Secretary of the Executive
Office of Health and Human Services
(EOHHS) by Governor Charlie Baker in
January 2015, Marylou Sudders leads the
largest executive agency in state gov-
ernment, a $21 billion state budget with
22-thousand dedicated public servants,
and oversees critical services that touch
almost one in four residents of the Com-
monwealth. Professionally trained as a
social worker, Sudders has dedicated her
life to public service and to some of our
most vulnerable citizens. She has been a
public official, provider executive, advo-
cate and college professor.
7. Co-sponsors
Planning Committee Members
Association for Behavioral Healthcare
Richard and Samantha Bendetson
John Hailer
Nancy Harris
Health Resources Services
Administration
Alissa and Steven Korn
Family Charitable Fund
Leerink Family Foundation
Massachusetts Public
Health Association
The Phil Rosenfield Family
Polar Beverages
Santander Bank
Richard Slifka
Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration
US Department of He alth and
Human Services, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health,
Region I (New England)
The Village Bank
David Herzog, MD–Chair, Special Assistant
to the President, William James College
Dean Abby, MEd, Director of Continuing
and Community Education, William
James College
Christopher J. Bersani, PsyD, ABPP,
Deputy Regional Administrator, Health
Resources Services Administration
Vic DiGravio, MPA, President/CEO of
Association for Behavioral Healthcare
Rebekah Gewirtz, MPA, Executive Director,
Massachusetts Public Health Association
Dan Jacobs, PsyD, Faculty, William
James College
Kim Mohan, MEd, Executive Director, New
England Rural Health RoundTable
Constance Peters, MPA, Vice President
for Addiction Services, Association for
Behavioral Health
Kathryn Power, MEd, Regional
Administrator, Region One for SAMHSA
Richard Reilly, PhD, Faculty, William
James College
Gary Rose, PhD, Faculty, William
James College
Betsy F. Rosenfeld, JD, Region I (New
England), US Department of Health and
Human Services, OASH