As discussed previously on this blog, Georgia officials are considering turning their state's mental health system over to the private sector (see "Georgia Edges Toward Eliminating Public Psychiatric Hospitals," Dec. 11, 2008). Since then, Gwen Skinner, director of the state's Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Addictive Diseases, announced she will be leaving the troubled agency come this fall.
Today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution featured a thought-provoking opinion piece authored by Dr. Branko Radulovacki, a clinical psychiatrist and Program Director of the Adult Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Program at the Ridgeview Institute. He rightly proposes that instead of looking to for-profit companies to run Georgia's psychiatric hospitals, the state's mentally ill would be far better served if non-profit hospitals took them over instead.Sphere: Related Content
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- My name is Michael Jones and I'm a licensed and Board Certified psychotherapist with an office in Palmdale, California. I provide therapy to clients throughout California, in-office locally and online statewide. My specialties are the anxiety disorders, including OCD, PTSD, Panic Disorder and phobias. For nearly 10 years now I have been practicing psychotherapy, both inpatient and outpatient. Most of my time, though, is devoted to my private practice and continuing to research, write and speak publicly about mental health issues. I am also a forensic consultant on legal issues involving marriage and family therapists. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California (MFC 43599), a Board Certified Professional Counselor of the American Psychotherapy Association, and a Certified Forensic Consultant. I can be reached by phone locally at (661) 267-2510 or toll-free at 1-877-494-7152. You can visit me online at www.michaeljonestherapy.com.
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