Welcome! This website contains my writings about mental health policy, social advocacy, social work, political philosophy, and more. Some are published essays--OP-EDS, book chapters, etc. Some are lectures, some are statements made at public hearings; some are reports; some are background materials on policy issues; and a few are academic publications.
The primary purpose of this website is to provide access to my writings to my students, my colleagues, my family, and friends. Perhaps it will help my grandchildren remember me. Others who are interested or who just stumble onto the site via Internet searches are, of course, also welcome.
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RECENT
Writings in 2024
- Keep Cognitive and Behavioral Health On The Planning Table view
- Policy Issues in Geriatric Behavioral Health view
- National Academies Mental Health and Aging Proceedings view
- Critical Questions on Housing and Recovery view
Writings in 2023
- On Decriminalizing Illegal Drug Use view
- Successful Aging of People With Serious MH Challenges view
- Jazz Improvisation view
- Review of Joshua Espinoza's Album view
- Living Well With Serious Mental Illness for NAMI-MD view
- Living Well With Serious Mental Illness view
- Speak Out: Mental Health Advocacy Manual 2023 view
- One Mind: Too Many Silos at MGA view
- Overcoming The Stigma of Mental Illness view
- Confronting The Challenges of Aging In America view
- Reduce Suicide Among Older Veterans view
- Blame to Burden and Beyond: Families in Behavioral Health view
- Social Work's Pluralism (2023) view
- A Defining Identity for Social Work? (2023) view
- Morality in Social Work (2023) view
- Social Work and Social Justice In A Pluralistic Society (2023) view
- Competence and Knowledge in Social Work (2023) view
- Culture and Competence in Social Work (2023) view
Writings in 2022
- Mental Health: Pride In Past; Hope for the Future view
- Meeting MH Challenges of Elder Boom for NAMI view
- Geriatric Cognitive & Behavioral Health Policy: Challenges and Controversies View
- Jazz:Players and Listeners Make Music Together view
- Mental Health Policy Lectures at Columbia University view
- Stigma As A Political Weapon view
- What We Lose When We Stay Home view
- One Mind, Many Silos view
- Cognitive and Behavioral Health of Older Adults For AAPI view
- A Reflection on War: Baltimore Sun Editorial view
- National Geriatric Cognitive and Behavioral Health Data 2022 view
- Geriatric Cognitive and Behavioral Health Data: Maryland 2022 view
- Geriatric Cognitive and Behavioral Health Data: New York 2022 view
- Triumph of "Recovery" view
- Montefiore Conference: Advocacy For Geriatric Cognitive and Behavioral Health view
- Plan To Reduce Suicide view
- Walking And Mental Well-Being: Sr. Planet Presentation view
- Volunteering Can Make Old Age Meaningful view
Writings in 2021
- Walking For Mental Well-being view
- Let's Celebrate Our Workforce view
- Meet Cognitive and Behavioral Health Challenges of the Elder Boom view
- Growing Up During The Pandemic: Trauma and Resilience view
- Policy Issues: Serious and Persistent Mental Illness in Late Life view
- Geriatric Mental Health Policy Overview for DFTA view
- Advocacy With and Without Advanced Technology view
- 10 Years Into The Elder Boom: Miles To Go view
- Statement To The Maryland Aging Commission view
- Advocacy re. Social Determinants of Mental Health view
- Psychological Fallout Of The Pandemic: Know, Don't Know view
- Jazz in Retirement view
Writings in 2020
- Surviving the Holidays During the Pandemic view
- Psychological Fallout of Pandemic on Older Adults view
- Behavioral Health During and After The Pandemic view
- Psychological Fallout As Deaths Increase view
- Confronting The Psychological Fallout of Corona Virus view
- Crisis of Suicide in America view
- Put Ideological Differences Aside view
- Deinstitutionalization Did Not Cause Homelessness view
- Do Advance Directives Now view
- Make Pain Mgt Precision Medicine view
- Pain and the Opioid Epidemic view
- Jazz in Baltimore: Christie Macdonald view
- Jazz in Baltimore: Germano's view
Writings in 2019
- Do Not Use Mass Murder As A Reason To Improve MH Policy view
- Put Mental Health Into Healthy Aging view
- Policy History: Community Support and Beyond view
- Policy History: From Institutions to Community MH view
- Behavioral Health Workforce "Crisis" view
- Will Federal Criminal Justice Reform Help Mentally Ill? view
- Geriatric Behavioral Health Matters view
- Geriatric MH: Leading The Way in NYS view
- Schizophrenia In Later Life: Public Policy view
- Attack on ACA Is Attack on Mental Health: Sequel view
- Is The State of the World Causing More Mental Illness? view
- Fund Geriatric Mental Health: Senate Testimony view
- Address "Adverse World Events" To Improve Mental Health view
Writings in 2018
- Mental Health System Not Responsible for Mass Murder view
- Mass Murder Is Not A Mental Health Matter view
- Don't Blame Physicians for Suicide Spike view
- Will "System Transformation" Transform The System? view
- Attack on ACA Is Attack on Mental Health view
- 10 Policy Issues About Geriatric Behavioral Health view
- MH System Needs Reform view
- Deaths of Despair view
- Moral Obligations of Older Adults To Their Society view
- Legalization of Drugs: The Ultimate Harm Reduction Measure view
- What Physicians Can Do To Prevent Suicide view
- GeriatricMental Health Data Book view
- Why Integrated Care Is Important view
Writings in 2017
- Pain and the Opioid Epidemic view
- Housing for Older Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities view
- Meeting The Mental Health Challenges of The Elder Boom (book chapter) view
- Older Adults with Mental Illness: A Vulnerable Population view
- Elder Abuse: Challenges To The Mental Health System view
- Insomnia in Older Adults view
- A National MH Advocacy Agenda view
- Fight Threats To Federal MH Funding view
Writings in 2016
- Moral Obligations in Old Age View
- Response to Kleinman on Caregiving View
- A Remarkable Bio of The Stranger View
- Beyond Systems of Care? View
- Being My Mother's Health Care Proxy View
- A National Mental Health Agenda View
- Speak Out To The Presidential Candidates View
- Creative Art and Aging Well View
- Congressional MH Reform: Hope or Hype? View
- Not Sure I Want To Be 100 View
- Noteworthy Deaths View
- Behavioral Health Workforce for an Aging America View
Writings in 2015
- Violence and Mental Illness: Suicide Is The Major Problem View
- Mental Health Systems Reform and the Workplace View
- Complexity of American Mental Health Policy View
- Improving Mental Health Policy: No Simple Solution View
- In Praise of Liberalism View
- Integrated Care At Last? View
- Art and Well-Being in Old Age View
- Do Art View
- Old, Drinking Too Much? View
- Prescription Painkiller Deaths View
- Being Great in Old Age View
- Improving American Mental Health Policy View
- Not Such A Grumpy Old Man View
- Doctors Can Promote Successful Aging View
- Aging Well Is Not An Oxymoron View