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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