Treatment Advocacy Center

Advocacy Center Certifies Four New Therapy Dogs

John Harden | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Treatment Advocacy Center, Cleburne Texas, Child Abuse, Children, Detectives, Therapy Dogs, Impact News
John Harden

A new group of dogs has been certified to join the Therapy Dog Team at Children's Advocacy Center in Cleburne, Texas. The four new certified dogs are...

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Mental Illness Awareness Week Diverts Attention from Serious Mental Illness

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Stigma, Mentally Ill, Mental Health, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Manic Depression, Discrimination, Treatment Advocacy Center, Laura's Law, Kendra's Law, Fuller Torrey, Assisted Outpatient Treatment, Aot, Policy, Impact News
DJ Jaffe

Whether one believes that there is stigma to being mentally ill; or discrimination against the mentally ill, the answer remains the same: let's help the most seriously ill.

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Cure mental illness by supporting these organizations

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dna, Mentally Ill, Depression, Mental Health, Fuller Torrey, Research, Science, Bipolar, Mental Illness, Treatment Advocacy Center, Neuroscience, Bipolar Disorder, Tsunami, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Virus, Schizophrenia, Treatment, Stem Cell Research, Narsad, Nimh, Thomas Insell, Impact News
DJ Jaffe

Anyone who's been reading the papers (or me) knows that the term 'mental illness' has now lost all meaning. As the psychiatric/pharmaceutical/healthca...

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Treat dangerous schizophrenia, the same way we treat TB.

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lauras Law, Carla Jacobs, Mentally Ill, Health Policy, Bipolar, Tuberculosis, New York, New York City, California, Mental Illness, Treatment Advocacy Center, DJ Jaffe, Kendra's Law, Health Care Reform, San Francisco, Kendras Law, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, Assisted Treatment, Outpatient Assisted Treatment, Involuntary Treatment, Involuntary Commitment, Aot, Schizophrenia, Healthy Living News
DJ Jaffe

According to Amenoma Hartocollis of the New York Times, New York City tightened their rules for monitoring discharged patients with tuberculosis becau...

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Homes, Not Jails or Prison, Are What's Needed for People With Mental Illnesses

Deborah De Santis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reentry, Treatment Advocacy Center, Corporation for Supportive Housing, Homelessness, National Sheriffs Association, Supportive Housing, Impact News
Deborah De Santis

A recent study issued by the National Sheriff's Association and the Treatment Advocacy Center describes the shocking fact that there are now three times more mentally ill persons in American jails and prisons than there are in hospitals.

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Pentagon Shooting Proves APA Has a Lot to Learn About Mental Illness

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Pentagon, Mentally Ill, Pentagon Guard, Pentagon Shooters, Violence, Bipolar, Pentagon Shooting, Treatment Advocacy Center, John Bedell, Pentagon Force Protection Agency, Pentagon Shooter, John Patrick Bedell, Fbi, Politics News
DJ Jaffe

It is well known to parents of people with schizophrenia and bipolar, that when their loved ones are off medications, they can deteriorate to the point where they don't even know they're sick.

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Mental Health Parity: Obama Style

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treatment Advocacy Center, Mentally Ill, Mental Health Parity, Mental Health, Obamacare, DJ Jaffe, Kendra's Law, President Obama, Schizophrenia, Health Care Reform, Institutes for Mental Disease, Health Insurance, IMD Exclusion, Involuntary Commitment, Involuntary Treatment, Stigma, Psychiatric Hospitals, treatmentadvocacycenter.org, State Psychiatric Hospitals, State Hospitals, Discrimination, Medicaid, Politics News
DJ Jaffe

I'm happy the Obama Administration is telling group insurers to stop discrimination against the mentally ill. Now I wish they were listening to what they are saying.

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Meds can Reduce Homelessness but the Homeless (and Advocates) Don't Get It.

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Homeless, Treatment Advocacy Center, Mentally Ill, Homeless Mentally Ill, Homelessness, Schizophrenia, Mental Health Policy, Bipolar, Impact News
DJ Jaffe

It's time for advocates to stop denying the role of untreated mental illness in causing homelessness. Treatment may not be a magic pill, but it's the closest thing we have.

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Maurice Clemmons: Mental Illness Does Cause Violence

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Murder, Mental Illness, Mentally Ill, Clemmons, Fuller Torrey, Incarceration, Police, Crime, Schizophrenia, Violence, Maurice Clemmons, Sheriff, Treatment Advocacy Center, Public Safety, Healthy Living News
DJ Jaffe

Maurice Clemmons is now dead. But treatment for his illness would have been better for all. We have to stop denying violence and start treating it.

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FDA Considers Caving to Scientology and Making Mental Illness Treatment Illegal

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Church of Scientology, Mental Illness, Scientology, Depression, Mental Health, Fda, Electroshock Therapy, Schizophrenia, Scientologists, Bipolar, Psychosis, Ect, Food and Drug Administration, Electroconvulsive-Therapy, Shock Therapy, Nami, Treatment Advocacy Center, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Japan, American Psychiatric Association, Healthy Living News
DJ Jaffe

As far-fetched as it sounds, the FDA is considering making it more difficult to treat depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis.

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