Development and Implementation of Substance Use Training for Allied and Behavioral Health Professionals: Addressing the Epidemic and Improving the Outcomes.

Allied and behavioral health professionals (ABHP) interact with clients who may be at higher risk for substance misuse or substance use disorders (SUD) due to mental health problems, relational problems, and acute/chronic pain due to injury/illness. These problems can lead to more substance misuse and affect daily life activities and overall health and wellbeing. Unfortunately, not enough individuals seek treatment due to stigma associated with substance use, partially because of the lack of properly trained and educated healthcare professionals.

Cinematherapy with African American couples.

Cinematherapy is the use of movies as an intervention with clients. When done well, it is used to evoke and process emotion, psychoeducate, increase empathy, and problem-solve. However, there is no literature on utilizing movies as an intervention with African American couples.

Mobilization and transplantation patterns of autologous hematopoietic stem cells in multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Background: The mobilization of hematopoietic stem cells can be a limiting factor for transplantation, yet little is known about how the availability of novel mobilizing agents has affected the practices of oncologists and transplant specialists.

Methods: US-based oncologists (n = 48) and transplant specialists (n = 46) were separately surveyed with a partial overlap of assessed information.

Results: More transplant specialists than oncologists believed that the time between referral and first consultation is adequate (89.

Examining factors associated with the length of short-term disability-free days among workers with previous short-term disability episodes.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine the timing of short-term disability recurrence among workers who have previously experienced a short-term disability episode.

Methods: The dataset comes from a Canadian resource sector company's 2003 to 2006 short-term disability leave and human resource datasets. The multi-year dataset consists of the records of 3593 employees who experienced at least on short-term disability episode between 2003 and 2006.

Examining the comparative incidence and costs of physical and mental health-related disabilities in an employed population.

Objective: To address gaps in knowledge about disability rates and costs of short-term disability by answering the following questions: (1) what is the incidence and the costs of short-term disability episodes related to mental disorders? and (2) how do these figures compare with those of short-term disability episodes related to physical disorders?

Methods: The data set comes from a Canadian resource sector company's 2003-2006 short-term disability leave and human resource data sets. The multi-year data set consists of 33,913 records for all nonseasonal employees. The study focused on all episodes that began in 2003, 2004, or 2005.