Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This after a several month stay in the children’s mental health centre to get his schizophrenia under control. In more recent years I consulted with a person whose adult sibling was languishing in hospital. With nowhere to discharge the teen, then 16, the plan was to simply drop him off at a downtown men’s shelter.

Schizophrenia 147

Schizophrenia Hospitals Mental Health Private Practice 147

Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 24, 2022

Developed in the 1950’s it was thought to create schizophrenia and other issues of mental illness. While we no longer see it as creating schizophrenia, we do accept that it is harmful to one’s well-being. These situations create binds where the person on the receiving end can’t win for losing.

Schizophrenia 113

Schizophrenia Private Practice Mental Health Counseling 113

Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. We can also have a system of checks and balances in place, where peers review our diagnoses or have peer consultation regarding diagnoses.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Diversity Psychiatry Schizophrenia 52

Counselor Toolbox podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Summary - CBD is showing promise as an alternative or adjunctive treatment for a variety of ailments ranging from Alzheimer’s and Addiction to Parkinson’s and Schizophrenia. - Dosages of CBD in the literature varied widely. Dosages of CBD in the literature varied widely. Dosages of CBD in the literature varied widely.

Addiction 20

Addiction Disorder Schizophrenia Consultation 20

SECTIONED

JANUARY 30, 2019

Hard-pressed GPs will be able to refer patients to someone else and free up their consulting room at a time when we face a GP shortage. This is the work they are trained to do and have been doing for years, and I don’t think they have even been consulted for their views. I first came across social prescribing in 2015.

Mental Health 12

Mental Health Schizophrenia Disability Consultation 12

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Schizophrenia? Who wanted a social media and marketing consultant who’d spent time in a mental hospital? She is now retired but worked as a self-employed social media consultant and freelance writer. Others fidgeted, especially one woman whose entire body seemed to shake, from a pulsing foot to fidgety hands. I wondered.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

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. The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled. His tone of voice.

Psychotherapy 52

Psychotherapy Therapist Justice and Corrections Interviewing 52