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By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Jun 18, 2025

Assisted Outpatient Treatment Expands Options for People with Severe Mental Illness

People with severe mental illness (SMI)—severe bipolar disorder, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and major depression with psychotic features – can be caught in a cycle of repeat hospitalizations, homelessness, and incarcerations. While state psychiatric hospitals provide a critical service for people with SMI, the number of state hospital beds has been…more.

Categories: Behavioral Health
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Mar 12, 2025

Supporting the Mental Health of Cancer Patients

When considering the impact of a cancer diagnosis, many people may naturally focus on the physical aspects of the disease – what cancer does to the body. However, cancer can affect a patient’s mental health too, as well as the mental health of one’s family and caregivers. According to the…more.

Categories: Behavioral Health
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Aug 23, 2023

5 Tips to Manage Caregiver Anxiety and Depression

Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness can be stressful – physically, emotionally, and financially – and burnout among caregivers can be extremely high. Ruth Lippin, LCSW, JD, sees the deleterious effects of caregiver burnout all too often in her therapy practice in New York City. Anxiety and…more.

Categories: Behavioral Health, Caregiving
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Mar 17, 2021

Peer Support Workers Provide Critical Behavioral Health Services During COVID-19 Pandemic

In the field of behavioral health, peer support workers – people who have faced similar stresses, trauma and mental health challenges to those they serve – have played a crucial role providing non-clinical, “experientially credentialed” support. That role has not abated during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent editorial…more.

Categories: Behavioral Health, COVID 19
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Mar 3, 2021

A Pandemic of Uncertainty: Mental Health Challenges in the Era of COVID

For over a year, the world has lived under the dark cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global, population-wide traumatizing event that has impacted people in a variety of ways – physically, financially and emotionally. According to Maddy Reinert, Senior Director of Population Health, Mental Health America (MHA), the pandemic…more.

Categories: Behavioral Health, COVID 19
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Feb 17, 2021

Help is Available for Frontline Health Care Workers Struggling to Manage Their Own Anxiety and Depression Resulting from COVID-19 Patient Care

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: To help meet the mental health needs of frontline health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, our sponsor, the HealthWell Foundation, has launched a new fund to provide copayment assistance for behavioral health treatments. Through the COVID-19 Frontline Health Care Workers Behavioral Health Fund, HealthWell will…more.

Categories: COVID 19, Uncategorized
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Mar 20, 2018

Can Psychosocial Care Increase the Value of Cancer Care?

This week, Real World Health Care interviews Suzanne M. Miller, PhD, Professor of Cancer Prevention and Control and Director of Patient Empowerment and Health Decision Making at Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC). Dr. Miller is on the Board of Directors of the HealthWell Foundation and the Society of Behavioral Medicine…more.

Categories: Behavioral Health, General

Real World Health Care

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Assisted Outpatient Treatment Expands Options for People with Severe Mental Illness

Supporting the Mental Health of Cancer Patients

5 Tips to Manage Caregiver Anxiety and Depression

Peer Support Workers Provide Critical Behavioral Health Services During COVID-19 Pandemic

A Pandemic of Uncertainty: Mental Health Challenges in the Era of COVID

Help is Available for Frontline Health Care Workers Struggling to Manage Their Own Anxiety and Depression Resulting from COVID-19 Patient Care

Can Psychosocial Care Increase the Value of Cancer Care?

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