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 current internship has provided me with so many opportunities to meet with community partners, learn how to use anticipatory empathy, and practice motivational interviewing.

LMSW 52

LMSW Justice and Corrections Schools Mental Health 52

Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Although most mobile psychiatric emergency cases have involved mentally high functioning patients, I’ve been most invigorated from helping the most impaired patients, usually suffering from psychosis. I can authorize involuntary transfers of patients to hospitals.

Psychiatry 98

Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

Foster Care 152

Foster Care Interventional Child Welfare Medicaid 152

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. When the interviewers go to Maya's home. a confused one'. There are many , many , more examples like this in the book.

Schizophrenia 52

Schizophrenia Psychiatry Psychology Interviewing 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

We should remove criminalization of women who are pregnant and taking drugs," Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said in an interview. 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. That needs to stop."

Child Welfare 40

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 40

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MAY 1, 2025

Melanie Sage, PhD, LCSW, owns Sage Training and Consulting, where she trains agencies and their staff to incorporate evidence-based practices in social services, including trauma-informed motivational interviewing, technology, and other best practices.

Engagement 130

Engagement Communication University Confidentiality 130

Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Third, it will no longer be possible to detain a person with a learning disability or an autistic person under section 3 unless they have a co-occurring “psychiatric disorder” that warrants hospital treatment. This exclusion does not apply to part 3 patients (those in the criminal justice system).

Mental Health 57

Mental Health Government Criminal Justice Disability 57

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

Consider Maya Abbott, a ‘tall, dark, attractive woman of twenty-eight’ who has spent 9 of the last 10 years in a psychiatric hospital. Laing and Esterson interview her together with her parents. when she told her parents in the presence of the interviewer that she still masturbated, he parents simply told her that she did not!’

Psychotherapy 52

Psychotherapy Therapist Justice and Corrections Interviewing 52