Social Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I attended the interview and was shown around the unit. Interestingly, one of the service users was also on the interview panel, asking me questions and giving me advice. When I was growing up, a member of my family suffered very bad anxiety, depression and post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I agreed and never looked back.

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Mental Health PTSD Clinic Interviewing 20

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship Fund This scholarship is awarded to a student currently conducting their field placement at the UConn Counseling & Mental Health Services. I am completing my field education at Natchaug Hospital in an outpatient program for older adults experiencing mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 24, 2022

” While I am no psychologist, kids have their “tells” that can suggest a disorder. A nonverbal learning disorder is about difficulty reading social/emotional cues. One may see this disorder in kids who play rough or who seem not affected or tuned in emotionally to the feelings or social cues of others.

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Disorder Mental Health Private Practice Counseling 162

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. While researching my book, I interviewed a group of stewards for the caseworkers’ union in Massachusetts. Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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Gateway Foundation

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Over 14 million adults in the United States have alcohol use disorder (AUD), and professional athletes are no exception. Adams said in a 2020 interview that he hit rock bottom before accepting help at a treatment center in 1996. In the same interview, he explained how his drinking likely cut his career short and led to memory loss.

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Addiction Interviewing Sobriety Recovery 10

Gateway Foundation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The proper treatment can help them manage withdrawal symptoms safely, learn healthy coping skills, recover from substance use disorder, and transform their life to maintain sobriety. How to Help a Loved One Recover From Substance Use Treatment is crucial for an individual who has a substance use disorder.

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Addiction Sobriety Recovery Disorder 52

Gateway Foundation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The proper treatment can help them manage withdrawal symptoms safely, learn healthy coping skills, recover from substance use disorder, and transform their life to maintain sobriety. How to Help a Loved One Recover From Substance Use Treatment is crucial for an individual who has a substance use disorder.

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Addiction Sobriety Recovery Disorder 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. Schizo-affective disorder? Most cited depression and anxiety, my particular ailments, although there were plenty of other mood disorders in that room: bipolar, obsessive-compulsive, borderline personality disorder and more.

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Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

You can hear Joe Shapiro of NPR discuss his investigation on The Imprint podcast The interview starts at 16:40 in. Upon release, CPS required him to have his own apartment, job, bedrooms for each of my sisters, parenting classes, counseling, and monitored visits. A new California law may change that. That needs to stop."

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