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New York Times does the “oh-my-God-it’s-spreading-to-the-white-middle-class!!” story about overuse of psychiatric meds on kids

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

These drugs, generally intended for short-term use, are sometimes prescribed for years, even though they can have severe side effects — including psychotic episodes, suicidal behavior, weight gain and interference with reproductive development … Moreover, many psychiatric drugs commonly prescribed to adolescents are not approved for people under 18.

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on madness

Clinical Philosophy

In On Madness, Richard Gipps takes us on a richly textured philosophical and psychological journey showing, in a Wittgensteinian spirit, how delusion, as other psychopathological concepts, have their meaning only 'in the stream of life'. Psychotic Symbolization 10.

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Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

Relias

This means considering things like: Referring working patients to clinics that offer extended hours Referring Medicaid patients to well-known psychiatric units that work well with their insurance And more Building rapport and understanding the patient more fully can help PCPs direct patients to the appropriate resource and encourage follow-ups.

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‘I believe in the value of social work’: launch editor looks back as Community Care turns 50

Community Care

Before he began his degree in social studies at Durham University, he took a gap year. Even at university, Mark got involved with the International Voluntary Service, where he started a group to help psychiatric patients with painting and decorating.

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gaslit: narcissistic perversions of thesoul's moral fabric

Clinical Philosophy

The original inspiration for today’s psychological use of the term ‘gaslighting’ comes from the 1939 play Gas Light , penned by the playwright Patrick Hamilton - who himself suffered considerable characterological complications. ‘Gas Whence ‘Gaslighting’? Does that context obtain here, or not? And who’s to say?

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Addressing Racism and Racial Trauma in Behavioral Healthcare: A Review With the Experts

Relias

universities (some incorporated in the 1600s and 1700s) were created as segregated institutions. He is the founder and CEO of Genesis Psychiatric Solutions, a mental health outpatient clinic with offices in Virginia and Washington D.C. There is also a history of racism in education in America. Additionally, many of the major U.S.

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A Conversation with New Dean Beth Angell

Michigan Social Work

She was previously dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Social Work and, before that, held a number of leadership roles at Rutgers University in New Jersey. BA: The University of Michigan, like everywhere in the country, has to figure out what social work looks like in a post-pandemic world.