Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2024

The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, American Psychiatric Association, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Association for Rural Mental Health, and National Association of Social Workers on June 28 released the following statement responding to the U.S. PRESS RELEASE: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v.

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KVC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Bullying Led My Daughter to Depression & Psychiatric Hospitalization: How She Achieved Mental Health Wellness [VIDEO]. Unaware or unaccepting of their peer’s differences : The reasons for being bullied cited most often by students were physical appearance, race/ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, and sexual orientation.

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

Nothing worked until — after two psychiatric hospitalizations — they finally found a combination of five meds that stabilized me (and virtually knocked me senseless!). For example, did you know that Hitler used “gas buses” to travel through the countryside, rounding up and murdering people with mental illnesses and disabilities?

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Relias

APRIL 10, 2025

These include (but are not limited to): Ambulatory surgical centers Community mental health centers Critical access hospitals Federally qualified health centers Home health agencies Hospices Hospitals Intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities Inpatient psychiatric facilities Long-term care facilities and nursing homes (..)

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. As a result, we have transformed youth residential centers into Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) and Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (QRTPs).

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Child Welfare Healthcare Welfare Mental Health 98

Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The reforms were designed to reduce the use of detention and CTOs, tackle their disproportionate impact on black people and end the inappropriate, and often lengthy, detention of autistic people and those with learning disabilities. Extended the right to an independent mental health advocate to informal (ie non-detained) patients.

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Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. Reminding me that I’m a patient, weak, ill, disabled, doomed. The stigma around mental health What will people around me think if they find out I take psychiatric medication? Why is that?

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