The US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) should be commended for its attempt to provide a basic understanding of recovery-oriented care, and its attempt to bring recovery-oriented practice into the mainstream of professional practice. To that end, it has produced a series of online training modules for peers, social workers, nurses, psychologists and psychiatrists. It has done this in collaboration with related national professional and peer organizations.
I have taken advantage of their availability recently to review them for content and to make some comparisons to what we are offering on the Mad in America Continuing Education project. In this blog, I will share my observations and focus on the medication module developed by SAMHSA in partnership with the American Psychiatric Association and the American Association of Community Psychiatrists. At the outset, I acknowledge that all three organizations represent a broad and often politically sensitive spectrum of members and political constituents. And it shows, as you will see.
[For more of this story, written by Robert Nikkel, go to https://www.madinamerica.com/2...s-rose-colored-lens/]
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