by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Sep 20, 2018 | Counterpoint, news
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • News • Page 1 WATERBURY – The Department of Mental Health approved a draft policy in March from Springfield Hospital for a new electroconvulsive therapy service. The policy includes steps for seeking authority to perform ECT involuntarily on a...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Sep 15, 2018 | Counterpoint, news
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • News • Page 18 WATERBURY – A study committee reviewing whether to recommend changes in Vermont’s involuntary outpatient commitment laws has met twice but not yet decided what to put in its report to the legislature. The committee is scheduled...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Sep 13, 2018 | Counterpoint, news
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • News • Page 11 BERLIN – The University of Vermont Health Network says it plans to assemble an array of interested parties, including those who use services, by September to get input for the new inpatient psychiatric unit being planned for the...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Sep 13, 2018 | Counterpoint, news
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • News • Page 1 Some Fear Mutuality is Lost When Incorporated into the Mental Health System By ANNE DONAHUE Can peer support offered within the mental health system still allow for the mutuality of relationships that is the core of peer support?...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Sep 13, 2018 | Counterpoint, news
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • News • Page 6 RUTLAND – Implementing mutual peer support as a staff person at a traditional mental health provider was a key topic in an interview with two peer support workers acting in newly created positions at Rutland Regional Medical...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Sep 13, 2018 | Counterpoint, news
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • NEWS • page 11 HARTFORD – Four deaths in seven months lent new urgency to creating a barrier to deter people from jumping from the Quechee Gorge bridge, state authorities say, and a temporary chain link fence is expected be installed there...
