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10 Implementing Change in the U.S. Context: Strategies for Reaching Audiences
10 Implementing Change in the U.S. Context: Strategies for Reaching Audiences
Pages 95-104
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The panelists reflected on the previous panels by bringing in the lived experience of consumers, advocates, family members, and health care practitioners. The panelists were Clarence Jordan, committee member and vice president for wellness and recovery at Beacon Health Options; Ruth Shim, also a committee member, and vice chair of education and faculty development in the Department of Psychiatry, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City;1 Susan Rogers, director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse and director of special projects for the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania;2 and Joe Powell, executive director of the Association of Persons Affected by Addiction, Dallas, Texas.
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For her, this was personal stigma, and it was experienced in an extreme way. After 4 years of residency training and learning how to treat mental health problems, Shim said she gained much from exposure to and interaction with the advocacy community.
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LABELING, RECOVERY, AND AUTHENTIC VOICES Rogers said that most of her work is supported by the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse ("the clearinghouse") , but that her presentation was supported by her work with the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
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SAMHSA's Recovery to Practice Initiative, for example, involves the creation of recovery-oriented curricula to train new and upcoming mental health professionals in psychiatry, psychology, social work, and other related professions. Rogers explained that the recovery movement is working to eliminate discrimination and prejudice that prevent individuals with mental health conditions from full inclusion in the community.
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She believes that individuals should just say that "we are people," especially since mental health conditions are so common. Rogers highlighted the contributions of Anna Jennings, who was an inpatient at Philadelphia State Hospital in the 1980s and told stories of horrible abuse and neglect taking place there.
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Available: http://www. freedom-center.org/pdf/debreidystigma.pdf • "How Stigma Interferes with Mental Health Care," by Patrick W
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He explained that the organization currently provides training and helps develop and create training programs not only for people with co-occurring mental health disorders and addiction recovery but also for young peer mentors seeking to work with people ages 16-25. He added that colleges and universities have initiated Young People in Recovery, a peer recovery program, and that Texas is one of the largest states with peer recovery programs not only in community colleges, but also in universities and high schools.
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How is it similar in mental health and addictions and how is it different? " Rogers replied that there are as many different opinions about definitions of recovery in mental health as there are people.
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The main message of the latter report, Shim said, was that culture counts, and the report states that the best way to increase cultural competency is not by training people about other cultures but by hiring people of those cultures in organizations. Thus, for example, core values of African Americans would be incorporated into mental health treatment and research by hiring people who are African American and thereby enhancing the workforce.
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The goal, Powell said, is to engage them, let them know there is an option in recovery and health, and help them get as healthy as possible. Shim made a final point, asserting that society must make a decision to stop criminalizing serious mental illness and substance use problems and sending people with these conditions into the criminal justice system.
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