SAMHSA Seeks Public Input on Publication Topics for the 2012 In Brief and Advisory Series
SAMHSA is seeking topic suggestions for the 2012 SAMHSA Advisory and the SAMHSA In Brief publications (previously called the Substance Abuse Treatment Advisory and Substance Abuse in Brief Fact Sheet). Completed copies of the Advisories and In Briefs are available at http://www.kap.samhsa.gov/products/brochures/index.htm.
The Advisory publications provide behavioral health professionals with timely information on a broad range of either emerging or hot topics in the behavioral health field. They also briefly describe new, promising treatment approaches related to the health and well-being of clients with behavioral health disorders.
Unlike the Advisory , the In Brief publications are not focused on behavioral health providers. Rather, In Briefs are designed to inform and educate professionals whose work is affected by issues related to substance use or mental health disorders or who provide services for people who have these disorders. These audiences include legal professionals, educators, and primary care providers, to name a few.
In addition to proposing publication topics, SAMHSA would appreciate your input on the type of information you think is important to include in these publications. This might include groundbreaking studies, promising practices, and benefits or limitations of a particular treatment modality.
To provide input on topic recommendations and the type of information that should be included in the In Brief and Advisory publications, please visit the SAMHSA Stakeholder Feedback Forum. The feedback forum will provide an open and transparent process for SAMHSA to seek input from the public and will allow real-time engagement between users.
The forum will be open beginning Monday, December 5 and close Monday, December 19 at 9:00 a.m. EST.
SAMHSA cannot guarantee that all recommendations will be incorporated, but would like to hear all views. Feedback received on the forum is an important part of the public dialogue and will be evaluated in conjunction with feedback previously received on this issue.
We look forward to hearing your input.
Suggested topics:
1) Innovative treatment modalities
2) effective treatment techniques
3) treatment outcomes
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More information on treating Methamphetamine addicts.
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The highest rated needs in surveys of mentally ill individuals in San Diego County in order or predominance are:
(1) affordable housing (53%)
(2) homelessness (47%)
(3) employment – supported, affirmative or assisted (42%)
(4) food (39%)
(5) recovery tools (26%)
In my opinion, an updated or extremely comprehensive housing tool kit is essential. It should cover detailed steps that would enable various non-profit housing advocates to provide housing for the seriously mentally ill. For example, I am aware of several groups who were buying distressed houses, rehabilitating them and offering them as Section 8 housing. Supported employment business plans and tool kits suitable for small and medium-sized non-profits would also be helpful. Fairweather Lodge is an example of a best practice supported housing-supported employment model. Father Joe’s Village in San Diego is another example.
Seek feedback from the mentally ill to better understand their experience and perspective.
I feel that this would be an awesome topic. In order to improve on the care, it would help to get the patient’s view on their experience.
How to choose positive recovery for you and your children after surviving violence, abuse, and trauma. I know for me, after surviving a violent home invasion kidnapping with my 7 year old daughter, sorting through all that she and I were going through together and seperately as individuals with our own triggers and trauma while also having my abusive childhood come back to the surface with the new trauma was very difficult. Understanding her needs and my own and how to choose a positive recovery path for us both and be a powerful role model of recovery for her while allowing her to heal in her own way as well is a tough balancing act for so many parents. More parent child topics like these would be fantastic. A column dedicated to parent child connection and recovery as a team each month would be great.
I fully agree with you on providing information for parenting issue and skills especially dealing with family issues and traumatic issues. We need to help build better family connections, and promote communication within the families dealing with mental disorder, abuse situations and recovery.
I strongly second this! More discussion, awareness and education is needed on abuse, violence, and trauma and the role it plays in someone’s recovery for both the victim and the perpetrator.
1. gang involvement and substance use/co-occurring (particualry among youth)
2. comunity engagement in education and treatment
I definitely would like to see both of these topics included!
Topics I would like to see included are:
Peer roles in direct services and provision of trauma informed care
Post Suicide Interventions for Survivors of Suicide Bereavement
Understanding the difference between suicidality and self-inflicted violence
Peer run respite centers
Thanks!
Hello,
I work with the severely mentally-ill. Also, as a consumer myself, there is a growing need of a resource which can be given out as a “one-time intervention,” (when, or (in the waiting period of days) before, a full assessment can be scheduled for Severe Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI). Such a resource, in the 10×10 campaign wellness life circle model (HHS Pub. No (SMA) 10-4568), which appropriate individuals (not at imminent self-risk of harm) could present a clinician with as an aggregate of these life areas of wellness (social, spiritual, environmental, occupational,etc.) would give a clinician a better overall view of the client’s life wellness, as well as help the client to have a guide to express themselves with systematically, and not emotionally hinderted by their illness (as they could work on it over times when their functioning was better (or even in inpatient settings) before they meet with their clinician. The need is for an augment to the intake process, not a replacement.
Recent research has suggested engagement in mathematical problem-solving has proven to help many clients unify themselves (cognitively) to the present, rather than (remaining in) their painful past memories. The option of something useful for the present (rather than just an appt. in the future) is also a way of providing resources (phone numbers, web sites, forums, etc.), and instructions, to help the client organize for their future appt. would also be useful to the clinician (as a measure of self-motivation, cognitive deficits, and a rudimentary explaination of life wellness being more than medication alone). This would dissuade the client from seeking the “magic pill” and the devastating realization that happens when recovery is not immediate. This could help empower the person to build on what they have (and can present to the clinician) as proof positive, also giving them the insight to comprehend early-on that recovery is a process, not a cure that happens fully and permanently (like catching a cold and recovering). Such a resource could give the mentally-ill something with which to work on and give them a way to start taking their own lives back, without excessive reliance on the physician/clinician.
Behavior Health Populations
A Epidemic
I would like to see more information on different forms of treatments gestalt, hypnotherapy, verbal therapy and CBT and ect. And how they are more or less successful with various populations of patients.
Please publish information on tx for women with perinatal mental health disorders and more information on infant and toddler mental health treatment.
- Complementary therapies
- Role of nutrition
- Advances in toxicology testing
- Use of technology and social media to support treatment and recovery.
The issues of OIF/OEF veteran homelessness impacted by PTSD and mTBI; how best to address recovery; and positive community actions which have helped establish recovery and re-integration.
The huge problem that is in our area is elderly abuse and people that are afraid to report it. The school in which I teach adult education, gave us a tape (I know, old) VHS, dealing with Alzheimer’s and caregivers. But our budget is so small now, we cannot purchase any new material. Any ideas as to how and where we could purchase new material on this subject?
With regard to mental health and major depressive disorder, please keep in mind, one size does not fit all. Most of the questionaires/surveys I have attempted to complete assumes that the person does not know if they are depressed. And of course that needs to be determined. However, if a person has already been diagnosed with
MDD then it may be possible for them to get further information/help
if the questionaire addresses that fact and goes to the next step or
in a different direction.
One request: Please publish the TIP on Men’s Specific Services that has been sitting in limbo for over five years. It has valuable information and is necessary to help psuh the emerging area of men’s specific services.
homeless veterans/veterans substance abuse problems
mental health and substance abuse issues with the staggering increase in US prison population
(1) Brain plasticity, implications for psychotherapy
(2) Addiction and the brain
(3) Engaging young adults in treatment
(4) Transmagnetic stimulation therapy
(5) Lifestyle changes to improve sleep
Information on the treatment and prevention initiatives of Bath Salts.
Best practices when working with transgender individuals with addictive disorders
2nd this!
- Removal of barriers … esp for OP and IP treatment centers, as well as transitional housing.
- Suggestions for residential treatment facilities to become safe, affirming places, (example, how to make accommodations in environments which typically only have segregated M or F dorms/rooms, . . . have restrictions on the use of make-up, attire, . . . help other residential clients with acceptance, etc.)
- Also, a list of any SA treatment agencies (esp IP) already successfully serving this population that can serve as models
How about information about treating the undocumented Latin American client. Navigating the system for clients without financial resources. In soe areas they make up 35% – 40% of the client base.
Information/Research/Data on synthetic cannabis (K2, Black Magic, etc.)
I strongly agree that more information is needed about synthetic cannabis. I have never seen nor have I been around (that I know of)any one that smokes it.
Information on harm reduction topics such as needle exchange, use reduction vs. complete abstinence etc
I would LOVE for there to be a committee of peers who serve as leadership in their state consumer network to come together and write a “how to” publication on ways to utilize the Evidence Based Toolkit on Consumer Run Services. It would be helpful for states to know how to develop and implement strategic plans for consumer run services in their state, how to hugely involve consumers in the planning, model selection, funding, etc etc.
If you would do one on Harm Reduction, Harm Reduction Psychotherapy, and Gradualism – that would be both timely and very helpful to the field. A major volume on Harm Reduction that was edited by Dr. Alan Marlatt will be coming out at the end of this month from Guilford.
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Suggest a more comprehensive focus on transdisciplinary issues. Because substance abuse professionals don’t practice in a vacuum, policy and practice information that may be more specific to other disciplines but also assist in practice in a transdisciplinary world is essential. While I noted some stand-alone topics that touched on other professions/disciplines, I did not note any that encourage a transdisciplinary perspective. In this outcome-driven environment, maximally substance abuse professionals are best equipped to not only know transdisciplinary issues but also know how to best navigate practice within the context of that knowledge.
A treatment limitation would be that Psychiatrists or Neurologists are not using SPECT or PET scans as a baseline before ECT to monitor affects on the brain. Other specialties closely monitor the organ
that their treatment is affecting.
Even MRI’s are not routinely done on patients with a psychiatric background although the procedure has been around for over 30 years and can rule out other neurologic problems. And the literature is showing
differences with those who have schizophrenia, bipolar or depression
in high resolution MRI’s.
Such a lack of monitoring, quality and outcomes. Thank you.
I so agree with this comment. In addition to this there should be required physical tests that are mandatory every 2-3 months to monitor blood sugar and any other potential side effects. This should be mandated federally and immediately.
Please need to consider developing quality measurements and outcome measurements for psychiatric conditions.
These would seem to be individualized per patient and per diagnosis.
The goals for a person with schizophrenia with psychosis may be different than the person with anxiety and ADHD.
Thank you
I haven’t been able to locate a lot of specific information on aging and older adults, and their specific needs, like strategies for decreasing isolation, as well as strategies for meeting the needs of aging adults who live in rural and frontier regions.
LGBTQ issuse:
1. Addiction in the LGBTQ community
2. Depressin
3. Teen Suicide
Solution Focused Therapy and Case Management
I would like to see more information on AD/HD in not only children but in the underserved population of ADULTS as well.
And also how to reach the undiadnosed adults.
Dear Sir/Ma’am,
This short is for information on the topic. Online presence regarding mental health, disability and recovery is a great topic. Today is the day that so many of us go online via computers.
We have different personalities in chat groups, online sites and by way of webcameras. Our personality and mental health are at a disadvantage.
Like in the public, we are stigmatized from the “get-go” while online. I have been online and I have been diagnosed with a mental disability. I am trying to start a Schizophrenics Anonymous group in our city. It is slow right now, but I would be the first to allow people the insight into who they are and who they may become while online over theh Internet.
I know that the site listed is a bit toward donations. I am sorry. I am the leader of LA LA SA and our group needs donations every now and then.
If you are not going to donate, great. Please just look at the site.
Okay, back to the Publication in Brief. I, as a consumer, see the need for publications in online behavior for adults and minors, alike.
I have been online for many of my years as an outpatient consumer. I think that online etiquette is a reasonable entity to pursue in the field of publication and research. Too many of us will fall victim to scams, online jokes, bad/poor behavior from others, and heavy spending in the wrong categories.
Please look at this short and get with the program. Consumers are being stigmatized online as well as in public and we, as a group, need to stay in the “know.”
Sincerely,
LA LA SA
I would like to see something that helps teach basic life and job skills to those with severe, long-term mental and emotional disorders. There are many otherwise capable and honest people whose lives have been turned upside down because of a system that looks down on the mentally ill and lets them fall through the cracks because of something that they cannot control. And many behavioral problems stem from the feelings of frustration, powerlessness and abandonment caused by society’s avoidance of those who are different in this way.
There are many programs out there for the physically handicapped to live productive lives, but those with emotional and mental disorders are often not given the same consideration. If we had a more compassionate system in this country that helped lift up the vulnerable instead of weeding them out and keeping them away from the privileged and high achieving, this country and the world would be a much better and much safer place.
1. Too many jails/prisons continue to use seclusion and restraints when hospital emergency rooms refuse to admit an individual in crisis. What hope can be offered?
2. I would like to see how many youth under the age of 18 are currently being prescribed anti psychotic medications that are not to be used on anyone under the age of 18. This would include poly pharmacy,cost of medication and pharmaceutical company.
3. I would also really appreciate a definitive test used to determine the “chemical imbalance” used in the pharmaceutical advertising campaign.
4. I really believe that more in home parent training when there is a child/children with behavior problems should be the FIRST and required step before medication. Perhaps the parent is the one who needs the medication. I’m not saying that a child who is responding well to treatment should be removed, I am saying that I believe the tremendous rise in children (400 % the last I saw) is over prescribing and unnecessary possibly even damaging to the child. Definitely damaging to our health care system in cost alone. Information and statics on these 3 concerns would be very informative and very important. I would also like to know your stand on these issues and if there are any solutions already in place.
The latest research on marijuana and spice.
I would like to see more research on the adverse effects on the use of synthetic and made to order substances.
Please provide more research on the impact of substance abuse on issues related to homelessness.
I would like to have more information on meth, my state is one of the most notorious for this type of drug but has the less information about the effects, treatments, how families are suffering, and etc.
I can empathize with this problem above because I see it everyday, especially when the students are waiting for the background checks to come in. All nursing programs require a background check.
Mary Mooney