MENTAL HEALTH BLOG
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Stephanie McMahon
- Mar 20, 2018
- 5 min
What Is Residential Treatment?
If you have no experience with treatment programs for mental illness, you probably see residential treatment as a last-ditch option for when things get really bad. Loaded images of padded cells, neglect, and listless patients come to mind, right? These images are ingrained in our culture and act as barriers, keeping people from benefitting from the excellent, compassionate, and cutting-edge treatment programs available. This barrier is called social stigma. The truth is: resi
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Stephanie McMahon and Kali Duggins
- Jan 1, 2018
- 6 min
Ten Interviews With Parents Whose Adult Children Face Serious Mental Illness
Families tend to wait for issues to escalate beyond their ability to manage them before seeking higher levels of care. This article summarizes the findings of ten interviews with parents who have supported adult children through mental health and addiction struggles. Parents need a place to reach out to before things fall apart. Together, let's challenge the image of the caregiver who “handles it all” and instead, let's open doors for families to seek help sooner rather tha
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Virgil Stucker
- Oct 27, 2017
- 2 min
The Story of John
Looking back and celebrating over 25 Years of the Rose Hill story Tuesday was spaghetti night; this is one memory from a special time over 25 years ago in Michigan. My wife, children, and I were privileged to be the first executive director family of Rose Hill Center in Holly, Michigan in the early 1990's. We lived initially in the ‘farmhouse’ on the property where this emerging healing community was to be created. Much was being done: fundraising, planning, staffing, buildin
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