All Posts by Jack Carney, DSW
The Mouse That Roared: CIAD & Friends vs. the State of New York
If you log onto the website of the New York State Office of Mental Health at www.omh.ny.gov, you’ll find out that less than three thousand individuals are hospitalized at any one time in the State’s ancient state mental hospitals, euphemistically …
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April 17, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs, Community, Non-Drug Approaches | Tagged as: Adult homes, institutionalized, litigation, Olmstead
“Social Workers’ Malaise: What’s Our Mission?”
Just a few final words on this issue. One of the readers of the blog I posted on March 27 on madinamerica.com identified himself as an experienced social worker working as a program director. In response to the question posed …
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April 2, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs | Tagged as: community citizenship, Liberation, mission, occupy APA, social work
1984 & DSM5, Revisited: Where Are the Social Workers?
Where are the social workers? Where are the NASW and its local and state-wide chapters? For that matter, where are the peer-run and -led advocacy and service organizations? Over 12,000 individuals, mental health professionals and other stakeholders, have publicly declared …
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March 27, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs, Uncategorized | Tagged as: DSM5, NASW, social workers
Poverty & Serious Mental illness: Connecting the Dots
Judging from the responses of several readers, certainly not all, to my previous post of March 7, “Poverty & Mental Illness: You Can’t Have One Without the Other,” poverty is not an issue customarily twinned with serious mental illness. Which …
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March 12, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs | Tagged as: American Dream, mental illness, Poverty, Working Class
Poverty & Mental Illness: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
If you’ve spent any time in the public mental health system, you know that folks diagnosed or labeled as having serious mental illnesses are poor. If you’ve been poor or worked with poor folks, you know that many poor folks …
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March 7, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs | Tagged as: mental illness, Poverty, Social Causation, Social Drift
Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: Caveats, Part II
Given the length of this blog and the subject matter it addresses, I’ve divided it into two parts. Part II appears immediately below, Part I in a separate posting. Thanks for your patience and interest. PART II – ISSUES TO …
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February 10, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs | Tagged as: Affordable Care Act, Caveats, Guerrilla Tactics, Mental Health Homes, New York
Mental Health Homes Open Their Proverbial Doors in New York: A Look into the Future of U.S. Public Healthcare (Part One)
The first of New York State’s “mental health homes,” which are intended to serve as the bedrock for a reformed public mental health system, are now open. Will this reform deliver improved care for those with “serious and persistent mental illness?”
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February 7, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs | Tagged as: Affordable Care Act, Future, Mental Health Homes, New York, U.S. Public Health
More on Recovery & Liberation: Oppression & Resilience
Just a few days ago, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, perhaps the foremost legal advocacy organization for persons with disabilities in the country, issued its “vision of community integration” for the disabled, listing the “key principles” that should be utilized to achieve that aim.
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January 26, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs | Tagged as: Bazelon, Liberation, Olmstead, Oppression, Peer-Run, Recovery, Resilience, Respite
Recovery and Liberation: One and the Same?
You can’t have one without the other. I’ll explain as we go along. As 2011 was winding down, SAMHSA issued what it termed its “… working definition of ‘recovery’ from mental disorders and substance abuse disorders …” Specifically, recovery is …
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January 19, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs