Social Work Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Obianuju “Uju” Berry, MD, MPH, Committee on Women’s Mental Health at the American Psychiatric Association Shawn Boynes, CEO of the American Counseling Association Roger Smith, Chief Advocacy Officer and General Counsel of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Space is limited.
Bipolar Bandit
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Although most mobile psychiatric emergency cases have involved mentally high functioning patients, I’ve been most invigorated from helping the most impaired patients, usually suffering from psychosis.
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Beyond Advocacy
MAY 30, 2023
According to a report from the American Psychiatric Association , 37 percent of Americans rated their mental health as fair or poor at the end of 2022, up from 31 percent at the end of 2021. Others may focus on policy and advocacy and find work with research institutes. We need you now more than ever.
Social Work Blog
MAY 25, 2022
This resource from the American Psychiatric Association provides expert responses to common questions pertaining to PTSD. . This blog from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence discusses the dynamics of abuse and helpful resources. Expert Q&A: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) .
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 27, 2022
Relatives also are less likely to demand that their kinship foster children be placed on potent psychiatric medication to make them easier to manage. But Mossaides said children should be stripped of this kind of vigorous advocacy whenever the lawyer happens to think that what the child wants is contrary to the child’s “wellbeing.”
Beautiful Voyager
APRIL 30, 2021
The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. The stigma around mental health What will people around me think if they find out I take psychiatric medication? You will see that they can be much more than “ just” meds. A lesser person?
Beautiful Voyager
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
I was absolutely convinced that if she made that called, the police would force my admission into a psychiatric hospital where I would be locked up for the rest of my life. I was in full panic mode, seven months into a major depression, anxiety disorder and fighting for survival. Losing everything, including myself.
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