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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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KVC Health Systems and Emporia State University Launch Data Analytics Research to Benefit Children in Foster Care

KVC

KVC not only provides these direct services; its team of developers and data scientists also built and maintain the mobile-friendly case management software and other applications that help social workers and therapists do their work. Students will also learn about how to recognize and account for implicit bias in data.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day. My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression.