Confidentiality Hospitals Psychiatric 
My Brains Not Broken
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The Lifeline provides “free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.” By texting ‘TALK’ to 741741, you can have a confidential text conversation with someone.
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. I can authorize involuntary transfers of patients to hospitals.
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Beautiful Voyager
JANUARY 28, 2024
For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 6, 2023
Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. NPR and The Marshall Project exposed the practice in 2021.
Teaching & Learning in Social Work
MAY 1, 2025
Her career in social work spans 12 years in academia and practical experience in child welfare, the Veterans Administration, crisis hotline work, hospital psychiatric social work, and private practice. Confidentiality: You agree not to share any previews or unpublished content of the book with third parties.
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