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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician. In this role, I work in the homes and communities of families to provide therapy services to young people at risk of hospitalization or being placed out of the home for psychiatric reasons.

LMSW 52
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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. Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. Additionally, many of the major U.S.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day. I worked at a university for about ten years. Better safe than sorry. A challenge?”

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psychosis, violence, and the fear of madness

Clinical Philosophy

It is very slightly more common for people with psychiatric diagnoses to commit violent crimes than for those without such diagnoses. It's worth noting, too, that only 15 of these 81 individuals suffered schizophrenia ; 40 suffered depression, 8 PTSD, 10 personality disorder, etc.