KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program. KVC’s services include in-home family support, foster care, adoption, behavioral healthcare, and children’s psychiatric hospitals. Through this grant, KVC Missouri is training adults who wish to become foster or adoptive parents.

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Foster Care Adoption Mental Health 52

Community Care

AUGUST 16, 2023

Even more surprisingly, “matching the model of treatment to a psychiatric diagnosis has an insignificant impact” (Sami Timimi, cited in Johnson and Boyle, 2018).

Psychotherapy 49

Psychotherapy Psychology Psychiatric Therapist 49

Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I’ve worked as a lecturer in medical school, a trainer of nurses in rural South Africa, and — since immigrating to Canada — a public health consultant with Indigenous communities. I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder?

Interviewing 52

Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I’ve worked as a lecturer in medical school, a trainer of nurses in rural South Africa, and — since immigrating to Canada — a public health consultant with Indigenous communities. I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder?

Interviewing 52

Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2021

‘Gas lighting’ was then put to psychopathological use in 1969 by psychiatrists Barton & Whitehead, who documented examples of wives inventing stories of their husband’s violent behaviour in order to get them psychiatrically detained.

Justice and Corrections 52

Justice and Corrections Psychology Psychiatric Communication 52

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The DSM is a compilation and classification of mental disorders as determined by a committee of psychiatrists under the American Psychiatric Association. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

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Disability Depression Psychiatric Disorder 147

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

The task force says a consultant should draw up the tool and determine how the information obtained from the tools may be used to adjust a treatment plan for the child or youth while they are in out-of-home care. They were in psychiatric centers or jails. And then what?

Child Welfare 70

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Self-harm 70

Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We can also have a system of checks and balances in place, where peers review our diagnoses or have peer consultation regarding diagnoses. It might be helpful to hire a DEI consultant who can help outline next steps in this process.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Diversity Psychiatry Schizophrenia 52

Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When using genograms in social work practice, the following best practices are recommended: Consult with family members as they have details of significant events. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care. You may enlist the help of a friend or colleague to check it for you. Best Practices for Making a Genogram with Service Users or Clients.

Social Worker 92

Social Worker Interventional Clinic Psychiatric 92

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.

Psychology 52

Psychology Mental Health Recovery Depression 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

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. Who wanted a social media and marketing consultant who’d spent time in a mental hospital?

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MAY 1, 2025

Melanie Sage, PhD, LCSW, owns Sage Training and Consulting, where she trains agencies and their staff to incorporate evidence-based practices in social services, including trauma-informed motivational interviewing, technology, and other best practices. Writing Tips Avoid jargon.

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Engagement Communication University Confidentiality 130

Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A new duty on the patient’s responsible clinician to consult with a professional involved in the patient’s treatment when taking the decision to discharge. These include considering the patient’s wishes and feelings, assisting patients to participate in treatment decisions and consulting those close to the patient. What happens next?

Mental Health 57

Mental Health Government Criminal Justice Disability 57

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

Therapy may look like something which it makes sense to pay for if it’s dressed up as something technical - as if the patient is merely consulting for the therapist’s skill or knowledge. Consider Maya Abbott, a ‘tall, dark, attractive woman of twenty-eight’ who has spent 9 of the last 10 years in a psychiatric hospital. Nobody visits.

Psychotherapy 52

Psychotherapy Therapist Justice and Corrections Interviewing 52