ADVISORY/Experts Available To Discuss Presidential Commission's Report on Mental Health.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) TOPIC: A report released by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health states the mental health system needs to be revamped to go beyond just treating mental illness symptoms with medication, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an article by The Associated Press. The commission recommends that treatment include helping patients to find jobs and improve social skills. The report also suggests early screening for children in order to diagnose and treat mental illness quicker. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Dr. Edward Jones, of PacifiCare Behavioral Health, is a licensed psychologist with more than 20 years of clinical practice and management experience. He is an expert on depression management in the primary care setting; reducing chemical dependency chemical dependency n. A physical and psychological habituation to a mood- or mind-altering drug, such as alcohol or cocaine. chemical dependency relapse following outpatient chemical dependency programs; reducing the error in suicide risk assessment; targeting severely impaired patients with assertive case management and identifying and treating high-risk behavioral health patients. He also has expertise in the treatment of seriously mentally ill (SMI (1) (Storage Management Initiative) The initiative developed by the SNIA in 2003 to create a single standard interface for storage management technologies used by multiple vendors and networking communities. ) adults, seriously emotionally disturbed (SED (1) (Stream EDitor) A Unix text editor that processes an entire file. It is the stream-oriented version of ed, an earlier text editor. Sed executes ed commands, but instead of editing one line at a time, sed applies the commands to the whole file. ) adolescents and individuals with substance use disorders. PR Contact: Joy Scott 818-610-0270 joy@joyscott.com Steve Ronik is the CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Henderson Mental Health Center. He has been a leader in the field of Behavioral Science for more than 20 years. With extensive executive experience, Ronik applies his broad-based knowledge and understanding of complex multivariate organizational structures to Henderson's comprehensive service network. In 1992, he initiated Florida's first Assertive Community Treatment Assertive community treatment, or ACT, is a form of total in-community care for people with serious, long-term mental illness.[1][2] Definition The defining characteristics of ACT include: Dr. Ralph Wittenberg has been involved in medical education and early mental health interventions for many years. He is a clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington School of Medicine. He served as the Chair of the Public Information committee of the Washington Psychiatric Society and a consultant to the Joint Commission on Public Affairs of the American Psychiatric Association The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential world-wide. Its some 148,000 members are mainly American but some are international. . Dr. Wittenberg has organized a number of community education projects, including a program for the early identification of children at risk in the District of Columbia Public Schools
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