EXPECT RECOVERY

Gina Nikkel is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care and an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Sciences University.  She has worked extensively in mental health and addictions policy, leadership and management, health care financing and political advocacy.  In her previous roles as executive director for the Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs, Tillamook County Commissioner and Community Mental Health Clinical Supervisor, she gained experience in all aspects of Community Mental Health.  She will tell you that she has learned the most from people with lived experience.

Gina Nikkel, Ph.D. Hearing Voices Research & Development Fund

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October 13, 2012

Even though more and more researchers have become interested in investigating the complexities of voice hearing in and of itself (as opposed to treating it simply as one of a number of so-called “positive symptoms” of schizophrenia), the lack of a clear identification of the defining characteristics and significance of the experience for voice hearers makes it difficult to compare results across different studies.
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Gina Nikkel, Ph.D. New Research Project to be Funded by the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care

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October 9, 2012

Over the last 30 years Dr. Martin Harrow, Ph.D., has collected data from over 1000 interviews with people who have lived experience with mental illness. His research has been the basis for a number of papers delineating the effect of medications on those he interviewed. Further analysis of the data will answer several questions that provide the basis for a better understand of the long term effects of anti-psychotics on the treatment of schizophrenia.
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Gina Nikkel, Ph.D. New Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Project in the Works

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August 1, 2012

The Collaborative Pathways project at Advocates, Inc. in Framingham, MA has received an FEMHC grant to develop and evaluate their highly innovative new program. This community-based team approach provides a safe, welcoming, and respectful environment in which young people who …
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Gina Nikkel, Ph.D. Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Projects

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January 23, 2012

One of the incredible things I get to do is talk to researchers, people with lived experience, family members, psychiatrists, psychologists, pediatricians, therapists, social workers, public policy makers, foundation experts, philanthropists, peer specialists and others from all over the world …
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Gina Nikkel, Ph.D. Expect Recovery….

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January 6, 2012

Expect Recovery….seems like a tall order, especially for people that have: little hope; spent years cycling in and out of hospitals; spent years on doses of medications that have left them with metabolic syndrome or worse; not found what works …
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