Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD, Editor of Navigating Bipolar Country and author of Mad Like Me Q: To start, could you tell us a bit about your background and work, Merryl? Nothing worked until — after two psychiatric hospitalizations — they finally found a combination of five meds that stabilized me (and virtually knocked me senseless!).

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Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 105

Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD, Editor of Navigating Bipolar Country and author of Mad Like Me Q: To start, could you tell us a bit about your background and work, Merryl? Nothing worked until — after two psychiatric hospitalizations — they finally found a combination of five meds that stabilized me (and virtually knocked me senseless!).

Interviewing 52

Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD, Editor of Navigating Bipolar Country and author of Mad Like Me Q: To start, could you tell us a bit about your background and work, Merryl? Nothing worked until — after two psychiatric hospitalizations — they finally found a combination of five meds that stabilized me (and virtually knocked me senseless!).

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Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. On 3 April 1974, the first ever issue of Community Care was published.

Interviewing 47

Interviewing Psychiatric Social Worker University 47

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

We should remove criminalization of women who are pregnant and taking drugs," Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said in an interview. It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. That needs to stop."

Child Welfare 40

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 40

Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The aims are to provide greater clarity as to the level of risk that a person must present in order to be detained and to reduce the use of the MHA for people with a learning disability and autistic people. Also, they will not be able to be made subject to a CTO solely on the basis of their learning disability or autism.

Mental Health 55

Mental Health Government Criminal Justice Disability 55