I recently had an experience with a long-term client of mine that beautifully demonstrates some of the fundamental differences between community-based, and outpatient psychotherapy. This is a distinction that is not reflected on often in the psychotherapy literature. Most of the literature in therapy presumes an outpatient setting for the work, and there is an […]
Big Data in Politics
Pacific Standard is a great magazine for those looking to keep up on the impact of science on social policy. They recently published this interesting piece on the Obama administration’s use of data in their election bids: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law/obamas-big-data-inconclusive-results-political-campaigns-72687/A few thoughts I had in reading the piece: First, it is interesting to note that the most […]
New Mexico’s Supposed Fraudulent Providers Exonerated
At CDR we have been closely following the events in New Mexico’s community behavioral health system. A full history of the details is better found in Behavioral Healthcare Magazine (just type in New Mexico to the search box: http://www.behavioral.net/), which has been documenting this saga since it unfolded about a year ago. Today Behavioral Healthcare […]