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Mobile Crisis Team - Lending a Helping Hand
By Jenna Bensoussan
Sometimes you just need help—Now. Oakwood Center of the Palm Beaches' Mobile Crisis Team offers those in need that immediate help through their 24-hour emergency service.
The team's main goal is the prevention of unnecessary psychiatric hospitalizations, along with minimizing the personal, family and social disruptiveness caused by mental illness, emotional distress or substance use disorders.
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Recovery and Resiliency - Putting on a Positive Face
By Jenna Bensoussan
The Broward Mental Health and Substance Abuse Coalition hosted the Recovery and Resiliency conference at Nova Southeartern University in early May.
A multitude of excellent speakers were in attendance, including William Cope Moyers, David McVinney, Michele Adler, and the renowned Bill White, to name a few.
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REVIEW: Patients with Substance Abuse Problems - Effective Identification, Diagnosis, and Treatment
By Jenna Bensoussan
Patients with Substance Abuse Problems is an adequate book for the beginning counselor or student in the addiction treatment field.
...Determining whether a patient actually has a substance abuse problem is key to guiding them on the road to recovery. Chapter four actually proves quite useful, providing various approaches to obtaining pertinent information that can determine whether an individual has a substance complication.
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Summer Highs for Adolescents
By Jenna Bensoussan
What is your teen doing this summer? Some of them might be doing a little more than you think, according to surveys conducted by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
Summer is literally knocking at our doorstep. The last school bell will soon chime and those wonderful bundles of teenage hormones and trouble will soon be swimming in free time. What do they do with all this free time? Survey says - more drugs!
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