Disorder Psychiatric Welfare 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 27, 2022
Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. As she has before, she embraces the Big Lie of American child welfare – that child safety, or the even broader, more amorphous and biased standard of child “wellbeing” - and family preservation are opposites that need to be “balanced.”
Relias
JUNE 22, 2023
It is used to treat a wide range of issues including health-related distress, family and school problems, and numerous psychiatric disorders. But CBT for kids has benefits beyond anxiety disorders. CBT is generally short-term and goal-oriented, focusing on helping clients deal with specific problems.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 17, 2025
When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado child welfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. The report makes no mention of the fact that, in other child welfare contexts, such tools have an ugly history of bias. They were in psychiatric centers or jails.
Relias
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Psychiatric issues, including depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and problematic substance use are more common with suicide losses compared to other types of losses. Were already experiencing psychiatric issues, such as depression, or had suicidal thoughts and behaviors prior to the death.
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 6, 2023
In Los Angeles County, WitnessLA begins a multi-part in-depth series on the failure of the child welfare surveillance state with a look at battered mothers afraid to seek help because of the entirely justified fear that the family police might take away their children. NPR and The Marshall Project exposed the practice in 2021.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2024
● At long last, the United States has officially apologized for 150 years of trying to use “child welfare” and children’s “best interests” to eradicate Native America. For decades, as the massive American child welfare surveillance state grew, the response to anyone who objected was: “We have to do this, children are dying!
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