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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

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. A lot of advocates complain about how HIPAA interferes with care.

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

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Art of Diagnosis – In-person

University of Connecticut

This seminar teaches how to differentially diagnose using specific questions and provides decision trees that clinicians can use in clinical sessions. Clinical diagnosis may seem safe from cultural, political, and social influence, but in fact, it is often guided by these forces.

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Genogram in Social Work: Worth a Thousand Words?

Social Work Haven

Ensure your interviews are person centred to help you create a genogram client-centred diagram. The Genogram Casebook: A Clinical Companion to Genograms: Assessment and intervention. North West Coast Strategic Clinical Networks and Senate. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care. Incorporate strengths-based approach as well.

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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

With aspirations of receiving my LCSW following my degree, the opportunities I was able to have in this placement allow for me to have a better overall understanding of the importance of clinical work. My goal for my final year is to do a clinical internship working with children.

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Guest Post: Interview with Merryl Hammond, PD; Author of Mad Like Me and Navigating Bipolar Country

Bipolar Bandit

Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD, Editor of Navigating Bipolar Country and author of Mad Like Me Q: To start, could you tell us a bit about your background and work, Merryl? When she saw me in hypomania, she immediately referred me to a clinic for assessment. A: Thankfully, no.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Almost no interviews, despite the pile of applications. the nurse told me.