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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Their stories motivated me to become a better social worker and write Breakdown. Emergency programs doing bed searches could report to the government and units could be closed if discrimination is not resolved. . What is your main work role?

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Accessing Service the Creative Way

Gary Direnfeld

This after a several month stay in the children’s mental health centre to get his schizophrenia under control. I suggested they speak to the opposition health critic in government. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I couldn’t live with that.

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Youth Mental Health Crisis Worsening

Beyond Advocacy

She was being treated by a conventional therapist who diagnosed her with schizophrenia. The post Youth Mental Health Crisis Worsening appeared first on Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy (C.R.I.S.P.). Her “treatment” kept her in a state of anxiety.

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Social prescribing is a lovely idea but it won’t make up for the care I’m not getting

SECTIONED

I first came across social prescribing in 2015. Access to the specialist day centre for people with severe and enduring mental illness (such as schizophrenia and bipolar) I’d been attending since being sectioned had been withdrawn as a result of council funding cuts.