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Medicaid payment woes plague Idaho mental health service providers

Optum says it has fixed a glitch that resulted in tiny claims payments to the companies, which provide counseling and other behavioral health services to low-income and disabled adults and children on Medicaid. Optum says …

San Antonio Police Have Radical Approach To Mental Illness …

San Antonio Police Have Radical Approach To Mental Illness. http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/August/19/San-Antonio-police-treat-mental-health.aspx. By Jenny Gold KHN Staff Writer Aug 19, 2014. This KHN story also ran on …

High Maintenance or Histrionic Personality Disorder? | Psych Central

In either instance, chances are that you have encountered the classic histrionic personality disorder. This person exhibits a chronic pattern of attention seeking and excessive emotionality consisting of at least five of the …

When Young People Suffer Social Anxiety Disorder: What Parents …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD), or social phobia, can have a crippling effect on young people. Children who avoid raising their hand or speaking up in school can become tweens who withdraw from extracurricular activities, …

Remembering Robin Williams—and His Struggles With Mental Illness

The majority of Americans struggle to get decent mental health care, or any mental health care at all. Expansions of insurance, including those in the Affordable Care Act, are enabling more people to pay for treatments.