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Social Work on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (Part Two)

Social Work Blog

In Part Two of this series, an interview with Barbara Bedney, PhD, MSW—NASW Chief of Programs and Principal Investigator (PI) on this CDC-funded grant, Engaging Social Workers in Boosting COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake. To read Part One, follow this link. I couldn’t agree with Gwen more and will just add a few additional points of my own.

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psychosis, violence, and the fear of madness

Clinical Philosophy

31 The reference (31) given here is to a paper on the link between violence and mental health (and drug and alcohol use ) which found that ' if a person has severe mental illness without substance abuse and history of violence, he or she has the same chances of being violent during the next 3 years as any other person in the general population.'