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?

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Psychiatric Anxiety Recovery 52

Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. Even at university, Mark got involved with the International Voluntary Service, where he started a group to help psychiatric patients with painting and decorating.

Interviewing 43

Interviewing Psychiatric Social Worker University 43

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?

Interviewing 52

Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

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?

Interviewing 52

Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Mild Intellectual Disability (MID) is a much-misunderstood diagnosis. The DSM is a compilation and classification of mental disorders as determined by a committee of psychiatrists under the American Psychiatric Association. As for Intellectual Disability (ID), this is a replacement for the older diagnosis of Mental Retardation.

Disability 147

Disability Depression Psychiatric Disorder 147

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. It’s with and in our lived bodies that we automatically grasp how close or far to stand to others.

Justice and Corrections 52

Justice and Corrections Psychology Psychiatric Communication 52

SECTIONED

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re a psychiatric patient, you are worthless. I’ve wasted years trying to get care, all the while becoming more & more disabled. If you live with severe & enduring mental ill-health & you’ve just been discharged by NHS mental health services, it’s the end of the line. They won’t.

Mental Health 8

Mental Health Psychiatric Schizophrenia Healthcare 8

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

A major life event such as divorce or disability. Experts agree that regardless of culture, a "nervous breakdown" means that the individual is no longer able to do his " normal functioning " due to extreme emotional or psychological distress or a psychiatric condition. Persistent stress from raising children. Death of a loved one.

Disorder 96

Disorder Mental Health Self-harm Paranoia 96

University of Connecticut

JUNE 18, 2024

I am appreciative of the academic opportunities I have had as a student, in particular courses focused on systemic injustice and social change, health inequities and disability justice, and for the internship opportunity.

Schools 52

Schools Social Worker Domestic Violence Clinic 52

Social Work Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

The American Psychiatric Association has announced revisions to the DSM 5 which will be released in March 2022. Clinical social workers may purchase a copy of the DSM-5-TR from Amazon, any large bookstore, or from the American Psychiatric Association. intellectual disability is now intellectual developmental disorder.

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Psychiatric Disorder Clinic Depression 89

Social Work Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

The American Psychiatric Association has announced revisions to the DSM 5 which will be released in March 2022. Clinical social workers may purchase a copy of the DSM-5-TR from Amazon, any large bookstore, or the American Psychiatric Association at www.psychiatry.org. intellectual disability is now intellectual developmental disorder.

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Psychiatric Disorder Clinic Depression 76

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

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. Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. NPR and The Marshall Project exposed the practice in 2021.

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 52

Mental Health Government Criminal Justice Disability 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 2, 2025

According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, Disability Rights Oregon (DRO) charges that after a foster youth forced to live in a hotel committed suicide the Department of Human Services made false statements about key details and covered up its own culpability. Gotta give the Oregon family police agency credit for chutzpah.

Self-harm 54

Self-harm Child Welfare Psychiatric Human Services 54