Walter S. Smitson is president and CEO of Central Clinic and a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Hamilton County voters have been very generous in supporting services for the mentally ill, beginning with the first mental health levy in 1980. The majority has shown they want best-practices mental health care that is accessible to all residents, with measurable outcomes that move people toward self-sufficiency. কিন্তু, this support is in jeopardy. As The Enquirer reported on July 29 (“Help at risk for the mentally ill”), the Hamilton County Tax Levy Review Committee has recommended that property owners pay no more than they have in the past. That could mean a funding shortfall of $18 million over the next five years because property values have decreased. This lower level of funding will bring severe budget cuts to Central Clinic and other Hamilton County state-certified mental health agencies. That means reduced services for those who most need help.

সম্প্রতি, our mental health system of care for the uninsured is one in which everyone can take pride. Children under five years who need help to successfully enter kindergarten, foster children and their biological parents wanting to re-unify the family, persons involved in the criminal justice system struggling with problems of addiction and mental illness, adults with mental disorders and others with major mental illnesses can all access professionally licensed clinicians. This system has created a community that ensures its members who are struggling with mental illness have the care they need to live in harmony in the community. Nearly every family has been touched with a child who is not achieving because of emotional barriers, an adult who is struggling with mental illness or a family that exploits and is destructive to its members. To face a future where many will now go without the help they need to live successfully in society is indeed bleak.

If there is no choice except to freeze the mental health levy, agencies such as Central Clinic will stretch the dollars as far as possible and will see as many people as possible until we can one day restore the cuts. মধ্যকাল, it is the responsibility of every voter to be informed about the impact of cuts. We all must ensure that our neighborhoods remain healthy and that we give help to all who struggle to succeed.

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Blackburn gets £23k boost for mental health arts therapy

7:30pm Friday 3rd August 2012 in News

AN arts and crafts project that helps residents in Blackburn with mental health problems, is celebrating a £23,000 windfall.

Crafting Confidence, based at the Energy Zone in Roman Road Community Centre, uses arts and craft sessions as a form of therapy, as research has shown that creative activity can be as effective as
anti-depressants in treating mild to moderate anxiety and depression.

The money, an Ecominds grant from the mental health charity Mind, on behalf of the Big Lottery Fund, will help the charity meet increasing demand.

Jan Calderbank from Crafting Confidence said: “We are thrilled to be able to continue supporting those who attend this fantastic project each week.

“For our participants the project is a chance to meet new people, learn new skills and vitally, build self esteem and escape the pressures or isolation many people feel every day.” She added: "আমরা
have welcomed more than a hundred and fifty people through our doors in the last two years and, thanks to this second Ecominds grant from Mind, will be able to help many more people experiencing
mental health problems in the months ahead.”

The Ecominds grant will help the Crafting project respond to this demand, against the difficult backdrop of budget cuts, changes to service commissioning and increased public demand for mental
health support.

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darwenTower

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7:52pm Fri 3 আগস্ট 12

I know a number of people who would benefit from (but there is a waiting list) merely talking to a therapist.

Or is that too simple in the faddy age in which we live?
darwenTower

Anthony Nixon

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10:05pm Fri 3 আগস্ট 12

great to see others are looking at the arts and crafts, portfolio closed and there is very little left in blackburn for developing skills of painting and drawing and crafts….however I came across Hand on Art in aquamania on the top floor. Excellent activities for kids of all ages.

They also have a website on http://hand-on-art.c
om
Take a look
Anthony Nixon

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10:16pm Fri 3 আগস্ট 12

NHS managers need to spend the money allocated to the mental health units on mental health units. We shouldn’t be relying on charities to supply funds for people suffering any form of medical issue. But well done to MIND who seem to have made this possible.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Veterans Affairs Hospital of Salt Lake City is dedicating a new mental health building designed for healing mind, শরীর, and spirit.

নতুন 38,000 square foot facility with 95 offices and seven group rooms. মধ্যে 2011, the VA staff treated 11,500 veterans over 125,000 visits, একটি প্রেস রিলিজ অনুযায়ী.

Veterans that attended the ribbon cutting ceremony said the best part of the new building is the extra efforts made to ensure the walls were nearly sound proof.

The center aims to help veterans that have experienced difficult things on the battlefield.

“It’s extremely hard, it changes your life completely,” said Stu Shipley, Vietnam veteran who has suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. “You have to want to get help and I never wanted to get help until it got to the point where I was extremely suicidal.”

The facility will also serves as a designated mental health hub providing tele-mental health services to veterans throughout Utah, কলোরাডো, নেভাদা, আইডাহোর, Wyoming, and Montana.

Iraq war veteran John Angell offered blunt advice Friday as he helped dedicate a new building for mental health care at the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

“The vets that aren’t receiving treatment need to suck it the hell up and just come,” said Angell. “We’re trained to push past it, so excuses, who the hell cares? Get your ass over here.”

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Angell and Vietnam War vet Stu Shipley received standing ovations from a crowd of about 100 at the dedication of a building that serves outpatient vets being treated for post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), military sexual trauma, পদার্থ করো, other mental health issues and for vocational rehabilitation.

Each man told how he was reluctant, at first, to turn to the VA.

Shipley said he found himself in a canyon above Salt Lake City 20 times in the two years before he sought psychiatric care. He had his .44-magnum revolver and his dog in his lap, and each time considered suicide.

The Marine said he first went to the VA for medical care four decades ago, but didn’t realize he had severe PTSD, which contributed to drug and alcohol abuse, failed marriages and stints in jail. The VA, তিনি বলেন,, “saves lives.”

Angell, also a Marine, called the VA’s prolonged exposure therapy, in which he was forced to look repeatedly at hard memories, ছিল “brutal but beneficial.”

“I’m now happy. I have a positive outlook on life,” said Angell, who is studying math at the University of Utah.

The mental health outpatient building was long overdue, said Steve Young, director of the Salt Lake City VA Health Care System.

It took a year to build, and then sat vacant for nine months because of troubles with the parking lot and getting furniture. পরিশেষে, তিনি বলেন,, “we were able to stop calling this the world’s biggest lawn ornament.”

For two decades, mental health services were delivered in modular buildings on the VA campus.

The Salt Lake VA system is getting five new mental health employees this summer as part of a nationwide effort to better treat veterans with such problems. It is also building more space for veterans who need to be hospitalized for mental health issues. The number of beds in a secure unit will increase by 11 to a total of 32 by next spring. The hospital is also adding 14 intermediate-care beds.

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পড়াশোনা: Mental health disorders increase risk of death

অগাস্ট 3, 2012

Updated Aug 3, 2012 এ 9:45 AM CDT

লন্ডন — Mental health disorders increase the risk of death, even if they are considered mild, according to a new English study.

Researchers at the University College London and the University of Edinburgh analyzed surveys filled out by nearly 70,000 adults between 1994 এবং 2004.

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Those who reported high levels of psychological distress had higher death rates. Even those with mild conditions, like anxiety and depression, faced an increased risk for death.

This study was published in the British Medical Journal.

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আগস্ট 3, 2012 | মন্তব্য বন্ধ

Zagor: New president and CEO of Staten Island Mental Health SocietySTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Mental Health Society has a new president and chief executive officer.

Fern Aaron Zagor, who has held the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer at the West Brighton children’s mental health services agency since 2005, will take over the top spot. She’ll replace Dr. Kenneth Popler of Westerleigh, who retired Tuesday after 31 years at the helm.

“I am unbelievably excited,” MS. Zagor said yesterday in a telephone interview. “This is a great agency with great staff, and the work we do on behalf of the kids and families on Staten Island is something that we can be proud of. We’re just so invested in making the lives of the kids and families here on Staten Island better.”

MS. Zagor said she hopes to guide those the agency serves through challenging times.

“The environment is changing very quickly. Families are faced with a lot of potentially stressful situations,” তিনি বলেন,. “I see our role at the society to help families and their children through the challenges they face, and be there in every way we can to support the children and families of Staten Island.”

The society has always been creative in seeking funding sources to help them meet their needs, তিনি বলেন,, and in finding ways to provide services — something she said will continue.

MS. Zagor said her salary was still being determined.

MS. Zagor, of Rockaway Park, কুইন্স, has more than 38 years of professional health, mental health and human services experience, according to John G. Tapinis, chair of the board of directors.

“Fern Zagor has a distinguished career of almost four decades in the behavioral health field and has earned the respect of her colleagues for her personal and professional commitment to making lives better for children with special needs,” Tapinis said in a press release. “She applies her wealth of experience and expertise, tempered with sensitivity and understanding, to address the complicated issues that bring so many children and families to our doors.”

He cited accomplishments over her seven years at the Society, including her oversight and management of its $8.5 million project to construct the Island’s first LEED-certified green office building in St. George.

MS. Zagor is the founder and co-chair of the Staten Island Coalition – Tracking Youth Substance Abuse, and is on the board of directors of the Community Health Center of Richmond, the New York Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies, and the Staten Island Partnership for Community Wellness.

She earned her bachelor of science degree in psychology from SUNY Stony Brook, and a master’s degree in social work from Adelphi University Graduate School of Social Work.

By Kirsty Oswald, MedWire Reporter

-Even mild psychologic distress increases the risk for death, the results of a large meta-analysis show, raising questions about the treatment of subclinical depression and anxiety.

Researchers found that people with subclinical General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) scores had an increased overall risk for death, as well as death from cardiovascular disease and external causes.

It is also the first study to establish a dose-response relationship between psychologic distress and mortality.

“Even people with low distress scores were at an increased risk of death. বর্তমানে এই মানুষ – বয়স্ক জনসংখ্যার এক চতুর্থাংশ – are unlikely to come to the attention of mental health services due to these symptoms and may not be receiving treatment,” said lead author, টম Russ (এডিনবরা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, ইউকে) in a press statement.

The study included data from 68,222 people in the Health Survey for England between 1994 and 2004. The authors compared participants’ GHQ-12 scores with information from their death certificates. সামগ্রিক, 8365 participants died during a mean follow up of 8.2 বৎসর, and 40% scored at least 1 point on the GHQ-12 scale.

The authors, reporting in the BMJ, found that the risk for overall mortality was linked to GHQ-12 score in a strong dose-response manner, even in those with low scores, indicating subclinical levels of distress. The risk for death was increased by 20% in those with GHQ-12 scores of 1-3 compared with those with scores of less than 1.

Subclinically symptomatic patients were at a 29% increased risk for cardiovascular death and for death from external causes, which also showed a similar dose-response relationship.

উপরন্তু, deaths from cancer showed a dose-response relationship with psychologic distress but a significant increase in risk for death was only significant in those with GHQ-12 scores greater than 6, representing a high burden of symptoms.

While the relationship between severe mental illness and mortality is well-described, this study is the most robust to examine mortality in the context of mild levels of distress.

Importantly, when the authors excluded deaths within the first 5 বৎসর, these relationships held, reducing the likelihood that their findings were due to reverse causation.

The study also had further strengths: “These associations also remained after taking into account other factors such as weight, ব্যায়াম, ধূমপান, এলকোহল খরচ এবং ডায়াবেটিস. অতএব এই মৃত্যুর হার বৃদ্ধি কেবল মানসিক মর্মপীড়া ধূমপান উচ্চ মাত্রার সঙ্গে মানুষের ফলে হয় না অথবা অধিক মদ্যপান, বা কম ব্যায়াম গ্রহণ,” said senior author, ডেভিড Batty (এডিনবরা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), in a press statement.

The authors hope that their findings will provide impetus for further research into the role of treatment in patients with mild, psychologic distress.

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The University of Queensland has been awarded a $2.44 million Centre of Research Excellence to research the design of a better mental health system for Australia.

The Centre is among 17 National Health and Medical Research Council Centres of Research Excellence announced yesterday by the Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek in Brisbane.

UQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor (গবেষণা) Professor Alan Lawson congratulated research team members, led by Professor Harvey Whiteford, Kratzmann Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health in UQ’s School of Population Health.

“We thank the Federal Government for developing and supporting this scheme that enables teams of researchers to pursue collaborative research and develop capacity in clinical, health services and population health research,” Professor Lawson said.

“In this case, the funding will enable the best experts across three States to collaborate on research that will produce gains in service planning and policy making in the mental health system.”

The Centre will examine the burden caused by mental disorders and how best to reduce this using the full range of prevention and treatment interventions delivered across Australian service settings.

The work will be carried out across five of the best research centres in Australia with expertise in clinical medicine, epidemiology, service planning and implementation science.

Professor Whiteford said the CRE would develop a mental health service system for Australia that would reduce deaths and disability caused by mental disorders in the most cost effective way.

“We have an outstanding team who will use the best science to demonstrate how to organise mental health services for Australia and the best ways to translate the optimal service model into practice through influencing government policy,” Professor Whiteford said.

The Centre has three research streams.

The first stream will describe the burden of mental and drug use disorders and develop priorities for cost-effective mental health interventions and the service platforms to deliver these interventions.

The second stream will undertake mental health system planning to reorganise the current Australian mental health service system into a new model in which the service platforms can maximise the delivery of evidence-based interventions.

The third stream will translate evidence-based planning into policy, demonstrating the policy settings needed to make the model service system a reality.

Research team members are: Professor Harvey Whiteford (UQ); Professor Louisa Degenhardt (UNSW); Professor Jane Pirkis (University of Melbourne); Professor Theo Vos (UQ); Professor Kathy Eagar (University of Wollongong); Ms Cathrine Mihalopoulos (Deakin University; Professor Gavin Andrews (UNSW); Professor Brian Head (UQ); Professor Jane Gunn (University of Melbourne); and Professor Wayne Hall (UQ).

The University thanks the Kratzmann family, and in particular Mr Wayne Kratzmann and Toowong Private Hospital, who have endowed Professor Whiteford’s Chair since 2000.

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