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Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work: What’s The Difference?

Gary Direnfeld

By helping restructure the impact or dynamic of those situations, relationships may improve as may also the mental health impacts. So different training looks at behavior and mood through a different lens resulting in different interventions. It’s not that one is better or worse than another.

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School shootings and fentanyl overdoses: the uncounted costs of neglecting maltreated children

Child Welfare Monitor

Colt’s mental health deteriorated even further after his mother’s return, and he talked of hurting himself or others. Five days after his father failed to take him to a crisis mental health center despite his grandmother’s plea, Colt brought his rifle to school and took four lives.

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How to help children manage stress caused by California wildfires

CCRC

PFA is an early intervention to support children, adolescents, adults, and families impacted by these types of events. Resources to Support Firefighters: The Center for Firefighter Behavioral Health has resources for firefighters, providers supporting them, and their friends and family, including the Helping Heroes web-based training.

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Black Youth Mental Health and Its Impact on Suicide in the United States

Relias

An issue that has gone largely unexplored until recently, however, is the alarming rise of suicide rates among Black youth and the general state of mental health in this group. In the past, research on youth suicide focused mainly on white youth, leaving holes in our understanding of mental health and suicidality among Black youth.

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Drenched in trendy psychobabble, legislation in New Hampshire proposes to fight trauma with trauma.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Under this bill, all this trauma could be inflicted anytime a caseworker concludes that a childs physical, emotional or psychological welfare is at risk. Few things put a childs emotional or psychological welfare more at risk than being the subject of a child abuse investigation. Almost nothing puts it more at risk than foster care.

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Police opens investigation into abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC

Community Care

Police have opened an investigation into abuse of patients at a mental health hospital uncovered by the BBC. Panorama filmed staff assaulting , inappropriately restraining and secluding and verbally abusing and humiliating patients at the Edenfield Centre run by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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Maternal Mental Health Matters: A Neglected but Vital Issue

Relias

On January 23, we recognize Maternal Health Awareness Day , an initiative by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) to increase awareness and action related to maternal mortality and morbidity in the U.S. It affects not only the mother, but also their children, their families, and their communities.