National Council for Behavioral Health

Dr. Delaney Ruston

Physician & Filmmaker

What do Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and Bono have in common? They are deeply committed to global health…but who is committed to global mental health? That question led me to make the film Hidden Pictures, which screens at this year’s National Council Conference ‘14. Let me step back and say how I ended up making […]

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Dale Jarvis

Dale Jarvis and Associates

I hear two types of editorial comments about this center of excellence crowdsourcing project: “This is really great stuff. The ideas are relevant and timely and we’re on it.” “You’re asking too much of me! I’m already flooded with a 1,000 things that have to be done yesterday.” Both comments are part of the existential […]

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Patrick Kennedy and Jeffrey Lieberman, M.D.

Reposted from Psychiatry Online

This article reposted and written by Conference ’14 speaker, Patrick Kennedy & Jeffrey Lieberman, M.D. on Psychiatry Online. Winston Churchill said, “Politics is not a game; it is an earnest business,” and finally we are getting serious about the politics of mental health care. After decades if not centuries of neglect, the bonafide health care disparity is receiving an […]

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Joel Dvoskin

Former Acting Commissioner of Mental Health for the State of New York

This article was written by Dennis Grantham, Editor-in-Chief of Behavioral Healthcare featuring Conference ’14 speaker, Joel Dvoskin. In an address to policymakers and law-enforcement personnel at the Crisis Intervention Team International Conference, forensic and clinical psychologist Joel Dvoskin, PhD, ABPP suggested that in order for society to deal effectively with a threat of violence, society must […]

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Dale Jarvis

Dale Jarvis and Associates

Burned into my brain are vivid memories of standing in the back of the room of the first large group presentation of the report, Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness. (Memory jogger: “People with serious mental illness served by our public mental health systems die, on average, 25 years earlier than the […]

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