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| 03.09.2011 |
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Amidst all the talk about how to improve quality, efficiency and efficacy in healthcare these days, case management sometimes feels like the best kept secret. Those of us in the field know without question the difference that case management makes to those...
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| 12.17.2010 |
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In any given year, there are more than 20 million adult-aged Americans contending with the daily battle of major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, as well as bipolar depression, which is linked to bipolar disorder’s...
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| 08.26.2010 |
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Starting palliative care early does not only lengthen survival time but it can enhance quality of life and ward off depression, according to a new study appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study assessed the effects of palliative care on...
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| 08.17.2010 |
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Last week Dr. Jan Kavookjian, co-founder of the Auburn University Motivational Interviewing Training Institute, made the case why case management and motivational interviewing (MI) are a good fit for achieving best-case outcomes. Today Kavookjian discusses...
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| 08.10.2010 |
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Motivational interviewing is a counseling method that has shown considerable success in helping patients achieve change. The Case Management Society of America, which sponsors the groundbreaking Motivational Interviewing Training Institute at Auburn...
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| 04.14.2010 |
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The Role of Case Managers Bill called our call center at New Directions Behavioral Health Care stating that he had been sitting in his car thinking of gassing himself within the last hour. He had only stopped to make this call. After speaking with the...
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| 02.09.2010 |
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Richard Scott Even if treated with antidepressants, a person suffering from depression incurs elevated health care and workplace expenditures, including a rise in absentee and disability costs, according to a new study. Researchers from Thomson Reuters...
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| 06.30.2009 |
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Confronting the Demands of Life in the Face of Traumatic Events The news shattered the quiet veneer of the morning. In a hotel room on the oneiric grounds of Disneyworld, where she had spent the weekend with her four children, Lee Woodruff did not need to...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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With the arrival of colder temperatures, shorter days and the prospect of inclement weather, the winter months carry forth an entire rucksack of characteristics inherent to their place in the march of seasons. As the sun rises late and sets early, winter...
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