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Dispelling the Myths Surrounding Borderline Personality Disorder

Social Work Blog

By Nicole Roder, LCSW-C Did you know that clients with borderline personality disorder are over-represented in all levels of mental health care? Myths and Facts About BPD It’s true that BPD is difficult to treat, especially without specialized training and an accurate understanding of the disorder.

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Dispelling the Myths Surrounding Borderline Personality Disorder

Social Work Blog

By Nicole Roder, LCSW-C Did you know that clients with borderline personality disorder are over-represented in all levels of mental health care? Myths and Facts About BPD It’s true that BPD is difficult to treat, especially without specialized training and an accurate understanding of the disorder.

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

NASW recognizes June as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. Learn a combination of diagnosis and interventionist tools of dissociation to consider when engaged in treatment of populations of color. Treating PTSD and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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you've been framed

Clinical Philosophy

To pre-empt: my thought is that whilst ignoring frames is naive, so is taking "frame" to be a master concept for the interrogation of psychiatric judgement. is to say that if that over which the psychiatric frame precisely ranges can be picked out without using the frame concept, then it can happily be seen as an optional extra.

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Colorado task force’s solution to stop children from running from residential treatment: Fence ‘em in & lock ‘em up!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

They were in psychiatric centers or jails. It appears some RTCs are engaging in a common industry practice known as creaming as in skimming the cream. Because that is the real world of residential treatment. None of this should come as any surprise. And, contrary to the industry myth-making machine, there are alternatives.

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CBT for Kids: How You Can Improve the Mental Health of Younger Clients

Relias

It is used to treat a wide range of issues including health-related distress, family and school problems, and numerous psychiatric disorders. Many times, clients will begin to recognize that when they engage in certain activities (e.g., But CBT for kids has benefits beyond anxiety disorders.

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