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Social Determinants of Health and Behavioral Health Challenges

Francesca DiRosa, Pascal Scoles, DSW, LCSW June 2, 2018 3 min read
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The behavioral health field is engaged in a movement to expand the conventional medical treatment model of care that emphasizes diagnosis and subsequent treatment to the more comprehensive and inclusive model of population health. Improving “the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group” (Kindig & Stoddard, 2003) is the critical focus of the population health model. The ultimate goal is to redirect the focus on social determinants…

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Strengths Planning for Building Recovery Capital

For decades, addiction professionals have been providing screening and assessment instruments that evaluate problem severity, complexity, and chronicity, but offer little data…

David Best, PhD, Michael Edwards, JD, Ivan Cano, MA, MSc, Jeremy Durance, John Lehman, Francesca DiRosa and Pascal Scoles, DSW, LCSW20 min