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Austen Riggs Center telehealth program hopes to meet young adults' mental health needs one Zoom session at a time

Austen Riggs Center telehealth program hopes to meet young adults’ mental health needs one Zoom session at a time

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A program that provides mental health services via Zoom to college-aged young adults aims to address a need for support highlighted by the pandemic. Its service area stretches across the northeast, but it’s all from the Berkshires. The Austen Riggs Center, a mental health service provider in Stockbridge, launched its Intensive Outpatient Program in November …

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Film about the APA's campaign to remove homosexuality from its mental illness manual, CURE, named 2022 recipient of the Austen Riggs Erikson Award for Excellence in Mental Health

Film about the APA’s campaign to remove homosexuality from its mental illness manual, CURE, named 2022 recipient of the Austen Riggs Erikson Award for Excellence in Mental Health

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HEALED The doctors called them sick. The remedy was rebellion. Stockbridge, MA, Nov. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Almost 50 years ago, in 1973, LGBTQ+ activists succeeded in having the American Psychiatric Association (APA) remove the diagnosis of homosexuality from the classification official list of mental illnesses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders …

Film about the APA’s campaign to remove homosexuality from its mental illness manual, CURE, named 2022 recipient of the Austen Riggs Erikson Award for Excellence in Mental Health Read More »