American Board of Clinical Social Work

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Most therapists have had the experience of feeling that a treatment is being derailed and perhaps headed for failure. The neurodynamic couple therapist must understand what is being relived during couples’ repetitive conflicts, rather than focusing on one or both partners’ individual issues.

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Relias

JUNE 19, 2023

From counseling individuals with mental health disorders to helping vulnerable children and families access critical resources, your organization and the behavioral health professionals you employ perform a wide range of important work. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) predicts that, by 2025, the U.S.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The therapist in this configuration can feel tremendously pulled toward identified patients, through either annoyance or sympathy. The skilled therapist must work to develop a deeper–and equally balanced–understanding and empathy for both partners’ contributions to their repetitive conflicts.

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Therapist Psychiatric Disorder Empathy 40

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

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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Disorder Mental Health Self-harm Anxiety 96

Relias

AUGUST 22, 2023

Those working with individuals with substance use disorders, for example, know that dependency doesn’t exist in isolation. For people who are substance dependent, they often experience pain, have psychiatric overlay, are using multiple substances, or have other chronic health conditions that haven’t been properly treated.

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Healthcare Administration Psychiatric Mental Health 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I have been through a series of around thirty medications, plenty of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists’ doctors, drug infusions, and even electric shock. The entanglement of delusions and psychosis had long ago become too much to bear.

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Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

I always suspected living with a mild attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that didn’t affect me to a point of challenging my everyday life (or so I thought). 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. A lesser person?

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Mental Health Psychiatric Anxiety Recovery 52

Beautiful Voyager

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The only two occasions I went to the hospital for my mental health challenges were 1) generalized anxiety with panic disorder and 2) severe depression with psychotic events and suicide attempt. I was in full panic mode, seven months into a major depression, anxiety disorder and fighting for survival. I’m a living example of that.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day.

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Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

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. My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician.

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Justice and Corrections LMSW Schools Mental Health 52