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Developing a strategy with high-budget drugs
With so many brand name drugs entering the generic realm at once, strategic preparation is essential. State Medicaid and pharmacy directors, along with Medicaid managed care organizations, must determine how to incorporate these new generic drugs into their formularies, preferably well in advance of their widespread availability.
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Mental Health Services for Rape Survivors
This paper reviews three critical issues for mental health practitioners working with rape survivors. First, current research suggests that victims experience a variety of negative mental health effects from sexual assault, including, but not limited to, post-traumatic stress symptoms. In addition, rape survivors may be struggling with how family and friends are reacting to the assault and may be coping with secondary victimization experiences they encountered in post-rape help seeking. Mental health practitioners must be aware of the wide variety of issues rape survivors may present in therapy. Victims may need to process not only the rape itself, but also post-rape experiences with their informal and formal support providers. Second, empirical evaluations of therapeutic techniques suggest that cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) can be effective in reducing short-term post-rape fear and anxiety symptoms. Feminist therapies tend to focus on survivors' longer-term problems with guilt and self-blame. Although more evaluation research is needed, available data suggest feminist therapy may be an effective approach as well. Finally, it is not uncommon that mental health practitioners who work with rape survivors experience distressing emotions similar to those of the survivors. These symptoms are called secondary traumatic stress (STS), compassion fatigue (CF), or vicarious traumatization (VT). STS/CF/VT is more common among therapists with higher caseloads of sexually traumatized clients. Self care strategies are particularly important for therapists engaged in this kind of work.
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Mental Health Care Monitoring Teams
By Nora Weinerth
It is now known that some mental health care providers in New York City can fail some seriously mentally ill people. Some people try to get treatment, and can’t. Others, who have been getting treatment in a program, are dropped without warning or apparent reason. Some people stop taking their medications because their [...]
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