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...
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...
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • Commentary • page 22 By CONOR CASH At this year’s Alternatives conference in Washington, Calvin Moen, Kaz DeWolfe and I gave a presentation on the elements of psychiatric coercion that members of our community face in accessing survival...
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • Commentary • Page 23 By CALVIN MOEN This was my second consecutive year attending the Alternatives conference. Like last year, I distinctly felt that there were (at least) two separate conferences happening concurrently. One of these...
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • Obituaries • Page 10 CUTTINGSVILLE – Barbara B. Hoffman, 73, of Cuttingsville, VT, a longtime peer and mental health advocate, died July 31, 2018, at her home. She was born July 30, 1945, in Windham, Maine, the daughter of Howard and Jean...
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...
