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

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What inspired you to write the book, Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry , that got published in October of 2018? . I increasingly realized that there is no opportunity to influence legislators to change the system in the clinical setting.

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Member Voices: Be Wary of Mental Health ‘Experts’ on Social Media

Social Work Blog

I see the devastating effects of this crisis in our community, emergency departments, and substance-use treatment centers through my roles as an emergency psychiatric and addiction Clinical Social Worker. I have a master’s degree in Social Work and am a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW).

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

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The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5). People experiencing a nervous breakdown may show symptoms that are similar to clinical depression.

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NASW Member Voices: ADHD and Mindfulness

Social Work Blog

A study from Psychiatry International found possible benefits of mindfulness to help with self-compassion, quality of life, well being, depression, and anxiety. This trick can be used in a non-clinical setting, or when a client is in a state of distress. One such tool is the acronym STOP: stop, take a breath, observe, and proceed.

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Clinical Philosophy

Section six entitled ‘Clinical Psychopathology’ contains 9 essays on different aspects of (mainly) psychotic experience. Unlike the Maudsley Reader , which is the only other collection still in print, the Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology is a 98 chapter collection of newly written essays , covering a wide variety of topics.

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Riding Out the Pandemic: Social Work Practice during COVID-19: Navigating Client Needs and Boundary Changes

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She has over 20 years of experience in children’s mental health including Clinical Director. She is cross appointed to the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She was Dean of the Faculty from 2009 to 2019.

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Addressing Racism and Racial Trauma in Behavioral Healthcare: A Review With the Experts

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He is the founder and CEO of Genesis Psychiatric Solutions, a mental health outpatient clinic with offices in Virginia and Washington D.C. Dr. Benjamin Reese is a clinical psychologist and president of BenReese, LLC, a North Carolina-based global diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firm.