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Legal and Ethical Issues for Mental Health Professionals Video – Learn how the laws impact your psychotherapy practice, as you watch these lively dramatizations of a judge and her law clerk discuss actual key cases in the …

 

Behavioral health standards and competencies

Filed under: mental health professionals

Guidelines to effective services: 'the Behavioral Health Standards and Competencies Initiative' was a national consensus building project that brought together over 200 consumers, providers, clinicians, mental health and substance abuse experts …
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Question by Neil: Why do we itch? How and when will it occur?
How does itching occur? And why do we scratch to ease our itch?

Best answer:

Answer by diamond4785
Histamines cause itching.They are chemicals released by the immune system. The body sees them an invaders, resulting in an allergic reaction. This is why we itch.

Question by Max M: Does anyone here work in the mental health field in Michigan?
I worked as a Behavioral health tech in Arizona for several years and have just moved back to Michigan due to family commitments. I am now looking to get back into the Mental health field and I am wondering if any or all the mental health jobs require a college degree.

Best answer:

Answer by Paul A
Give this a try:

http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-27417_27529—,00.html

That is “Licensing for mental health professionals” – it should tell about requirements there somewhere, hopefully!

What do you think? Answer below!

 

Professionals urged to seek help on 'World Mental Health Day'

Filed under: mental health professionals

Professionals are urging people to seek help if they are concerned about their mental health. Tha is the message to mark 'World Mental Health Day' which takes place today. Research commissioned by the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy …
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Twin Town Treatment Centers of Southern California to Be Honored During …

Filed under: alcohol rehab centers

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–(Marketwired – Oct 8, 2013) – Key representatives from Twin Town Treatment Centers, Inc., a successful six-location outpatient drug and alcohol treatment facility based in Los Alamitos, Calif., are being recognized with two special …
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SHERIFF DART OPENS NEW JAIL SPACE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN – Pregnant women awaiting trial at the Cook County Jail will now be housed together in one area specifically designed to meet their pre-natal needs, part of a …

 

Lock-up shake up

Filed under: substance abuse counselors

The new jail would be built with somewhere between 481 and 688 beds, based on a lower calculated projected need, and more space would be devoted to programs like substance abuse education, parenting programs, or counseling. San Francisco …
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I-Team: Addiction Clinic Accused of Inflating Medicaid Bills, Again

Filed under: substance abuse counselors

One of the busiest drug counseling centers in New York schedules unnecessary and sometimes unproductive appointments for its clients, inflating the Medicaid bills that get passed along to the taxpayer, former clients and employees of the center allege.
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Elements Behavioral Health Partners with Internationally Renowned Nutrition …

Filed under: eating disorder treatment centers

“Applying new science to help individuals with addictions and mental health disorders is a natural extension of the work I've done with food, addiction and binge eating for the past 20 years.” At each of Elements' residential addiction treatment …
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