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Wellness Resources

This is a partial listing of resources addressing wellness for people with mental illnesses.

Articles

Advancing the Treatment of People with Mental Illness:  A Call to Action in the Management of Metabolic Issues (Academic Highlights). 
Proceedings summary form a World Federation of Mental Health Meeting, September 29-30, 2004; Vienna, Austria.  Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2005; 66:  790-798.

Behavioral health/primary care integration models, competencies, and infrastructure 
Mauer, B.J.

Chronic Illness Costs the Economy More Than $1 Trillion a Year
CoMorbidity of medical illnesses among adults with serious mental illnesses who are receiving community psychiatric services
Sokal, J., Messias, E., Dickerson F., Kreyenbuhl, J. Brown, C., Goldberg, R. and Dixon, L.

Employee-Wellness Programs Pay Off in Productivity and Morale

Exercises for Mental Wellness. Couldn't We All Benefit?

European Mental Health Groups Unite To Issue Call To Action On Metabolics In Mental Health

Developing a service to monitor and improve physical health in people with serious mental illness
Ohlsen, R.I., Peacock, G., and Smith, S. 

Framework for health promotion services and for people with psychiatric disabilities 
Hutchinson, D.S., Gagne, C., Bowers, A., Russinova, Z., Skrinar, G.S., and Anthony, W.A.

From Silos to Bridges: Meeting The General Health Care Needs of Adults With Severe Mental Illnesses
Marcela Horovitz-Lennon; Amy M. Kilbourne; and Harold Alan Pincus

Get it together: How to integrate physical and mental health care for people with serious mental disorders
Koyanagi, Chris

Healthcare Utilization and Care Project: Hospitalization Stays Related to Depression, 2005

Healthy Lifestyles and Tobacco Curriculum
Jill Williams, MD, Bernadette W. Cain MBA, Tara Fredericks, MSW
and Mary O’ Shaughnessy NPP, PsyD

A Hidden Epidemic
Steven Schroeder, Washington Post

Hospitalizations for Patients with Depression on the Increase
Medical News Today

How Do We Recover? An Analysis of Psychiatric Survivor Oral Histories

Improving Health-Based Payment for Medicaid Beneficiaries: CDPS - Chronic Illness and Disability Payment System

In Sickness and In Wellness

Integrating physical activity into mental health services for persons with serious mental illness
Richardson, C.R., Faulkner, G., McDevitt, J., Skrinar, G.S., Hutchinson, D.S.,
and Piette, J.D. 

Medical comorbidity in bipolar disorder: Implications for functional outcomes and health service utilization 
McIntyre, R.S., Konarski, J.Z., Soczynska, J.K., Wilkins, K., Panjwani, G., Bouffard, B., Bottas, A., and Kennedy, S.H.

Mental Health Woes Remain One Of The Top Reasons For Doctor Visits

Mentally Ill Have Higher Odds Of Developing Brain, Lung Cancers

Mentally Ill Smoke... A Lot

Mental Wellness in Aging: Strengths-Based Approaches

Mind and Body Reunited: Improving Care at the Behavioral and Primary Healthcare Interface
Benjamin Druss, Emory University; Barbara Mauer, MCPP Healthcare Consulting Inc

Preventing Chronic Disease

Primary Care Doctors May Overlook Elderly Patients’ Mental Health

Psychiatrists, Seriously Ill Patients Need to Improve Communication

Reaching for Wellness in Schizophrenia

Recovery and Wellness: Models of Hope and Empowerment for People with Mental Illness

Recovery in Mental Illness: Broadening Our Understanding of Wellness

The Recovery Workbook
LeRoy Spaniol, Martin Koehler, and Dori Hutchinson

SAMHSA Publication. Building Bridges: Mental Health Consumers and Primary Health Care Representatives in Dialogue

Schizophrenia & weight, Management:  A systematic review of interventions to control weight
Faulkner, G., Soundy, A., and Lloyd, K

Smoking Cessation Approaches for Persons With Mental Illness or Addictive Disorders 

State Hospitals Struggle to Give Up Smoking

Supporting Wellness Through Policy and Advocacy: A Case History of a Working Group in a Community Partnership Initiative to Address Depression

Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Improve the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities
(includes attention to persons with mental and/or substance abuse disorders)

Talking Wellness. A Description of a Community-Academic Partnered Project to Engage an African-American Community Around Depression Through the Use of Poetry, Film, and Photography

A Tobacco Treatment Model for Persons With Serious Mental Illness 
Treatment of cardiac risk factors among patients with Schizophrenia and diabetes
Weiss, A.P., Henderson, D.C., Weilburg, J.B., Goff, D.C., Meigs, J.B., Cagliero, E.,
and Grant, R.W.

Thirteenth in a Series of Technical Reports: Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illnesses   
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors

U.S. Slipping in Life Expectancy Rankings

Well Balanced: 8 Steps to Wellness for Adults with Mental Illness and Diabetes

A Wellness Approach

Wellness Intervention for Patients with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness

Women With Mental Disorders Less Likely To Have Mammograms

Websites

Addressing the access to health care for women with disabilities

American College of Sports Medicines Guidelines for Physical Activity for persons with disabilities

American Legacy Foundation: Quit plan for Smoking Cessation

American Psychiatric Association Chart: “Comorbidity High in Seriously Mentally Ill”

American Therapeutic Recreation Association

Diabetes Prevention
American Diabetes Association

Clubhouse of Suffolk

Common Ground Training

Biofeedback Certification Institute of America

Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

Association of Clinicians for the Underserved

The Association of Depression and Anxiety with Obesity and Unhealthy Behaviors Among Community-Dwelling US Adults

Healthy People

Hearts and Minds
National Alliance on Mental Illness

HealthFinder.Gov

HealthierUS.gov

Illness Management and Recovery

International Society for Neuronal Regulation

Mental Health America Policy Position Statement 16: Health and Wellness for People with Serious Mental Illnesses

Mental Health America Surveys

Model School Wellness Policies

National Recreation and Park Association

National Wellness Institute

Native Wellness

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Performance Wellness, Inc.

Smoking Cessation and Leadership Center

Resources in Reimbursement for MH/SU Services

Schizophrenia and Wellness Research Program

School Nutrition Association

Wellness Meetup

WRAP
Mary Ellen Copeland

 

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