by Hogg Staff | Dec 16, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas is home to more than 4.3 million adults with some form of mental illness. Many of them –insured and uninsured alike—aren’t able to get the help they need due to a decline in services and programs, according to the Texas Medical Association. To...
by Hogg Staff | Dec 15, 2014
by Ike Evans As peer support continues to come into its own as a professional discipline, its most enthusiastic proponents are taking up the challenge of making sure that its innovative edge is not blunted. The ever greater elaboration of peer support standards and...
by Hogg Staff | Dec 4, 2014
by Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr. Last month I had the privilege of attending the Thirtieth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy. The theme for this year’s event was “Celebrating the Past and Shaping the Future.” Rosalynn Carter,...
by Hogg Staff | Dec 3, 2014
by Lynda Frost The growing emergence of certified peer specialists as mainstays of the behavioral health care system is one of the most important and exciting developments in 21st century behavioral health. Forensic peer support, which seeks to integrate the...
by Hogg Staff | Dec 2, 2014
A thought-provoking read in Scientific American by Peter Kinderman, a distinguished professor of clinical psychology at the University of Liverpool, who challenges the disease model of mental illness. He argues that mental health services should be based on the...
