American Board of Clinical Social Work

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Most therapists have had the experience of feeling that a treatment is being derailed and perhaps headed for failure. The neurodynamic couple therapist must understand what is being relived during couples’ repetitive conflicts, rather than focusing on one or both partners’ individual issues.

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Relias

JUNE 19, 2023

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) predicts that, by 2025, the U.S. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) predicts that, by 2025, the U.S.

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Psychiatric Healthcare Mental Health Communication 52

Social Work Blog

MAY 24, 2023

As a Systems Therapist, I welcome all attendees to the session, (in person or in absentia). My job, as her therapist, is to provide crowd control. Lorrie has practiced in a variety of settings including private practice, non-profit, inpatient psychiatric, military behavioral health, schools, corporations, and human service agencies.

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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.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The therapist in this configuration can feel tremendously pulled toward identified patients, through either annoyance or sympathy. The skilled therapist must work to develop a deeper–and equally balanced–understanding and empathy for both partners’ contributions to their repetitive conflicts.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s stressful personally,” says Danielle Wagner, MSSW, LCSW, staff therapist at a Pennsylvania college who also sees patients in private practice. “In For social workers and their clients, the pandemic may not be as front of mind as it once was, but it remains a factor and adds another layer to already challenging situations.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

I suggested we talk a bit about the issue that prompted his search for a therapist and maybe we could explore if I might be helpful. He had never been in therapy and wanted to establish trust by vetting therapists who had credentials and used language with which he was familiar. Then, we talked. Makes sense with one caveat.

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LCSW Therapist CBT Military 52

KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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Foster Care Adoption Mental Health Hospitals 52

Community Care

AUGUST 16, 2023

Even more surprisingly, “matching the model of treatment to a psychiatric diagnosis has an insignificant impact” (Sami Timimi, cited in Johnson and Boyle, 2018). We learned along the way about which parents were ready and which were not, and how to create the conditions that facilitated participation.

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Psychotherapy Psychology Psychiatric Therapist 44

Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 7, 2024

It is when that happens, I don’t listen to reason, get into fights, do things I regret later, hurt the people I love and sometimes even end up in a psychiatric hospital. Another thing that is important is to have an open conversation with your therapist and psychiatrist. I am blessed to have ppl in my life that have stuck by me.

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Disorder Mental Health Communication Depression 116

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

So, how does a therapist lower defenses and promote open dialogue? Lorrie has practiced in a variety of settings including private practice, non-profit, inpatient psychiatric, military behavioral health, schools, corporations, and human service agencies. It’s not their fault and no blame is attached to the hypothesis.

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LCSW Military Psychiatric Private Practice 52

Relias

AUGUST 22, 2023

For people who are substance dependent, they often experience pain, have psychiatric overlay, are using multiple substances, or have other chronic health conditions that haven’t been properly treated. Those working with individuals with substance use disorders, for example, know that dependency doesn’t exist in isolation.

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Healthcare Administration Psychiatric Mental Health 52

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 22, 2020

Raimond Gaita's famous example of the nun in the psychiatric hospital provided the example here.) Another concerned the work one needs to do on oneself as a therapist to tolerate the patient's tragic loneliness rather than deflect from it and flee into understanding or action.

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Psychotherapy Therapist Psychiatric Hospitals 40

Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 7, 2024

It is when that happens, I don’t listen to reason, get into fights, do things I regret later, hurt the people I love and sometimes even end up in a psychiatric hospital. Another thing that is important is to have an open conversation with your therapist and psychiatrist. I am blessed to have ppl in my life that have stuck by me.

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Disorder Mental Health Communication Depression 52

KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

KVC not only provides these direct services; its team of developers and data scientists also built and maintain the mobile-friendly case management software and other applications that help social workers and therapists do their work. The organization employs 1,500 professionals across Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

Experts agree that regardless of culture, a "nervous breakdown" means that the individual is no longer able to do his " normal functioning " due to extreme emotional or psychological distress or a psychiatric condition. As the World Health Organization (WHO) points out, mental health goes beyond the absence of mental disorders.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I have been through a series of around thirty medications, plenty of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists’ doctors, drug infusions, and even electric shock. The entanglement of delusions and psychosis had long ago become too much to bear.

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Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. I remember at that time my therapist challenged my concern by asking: “and where did the “old” Pat lead you?” You will see that they can be much more than “ just” meds. A lesser person?

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Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Dr. Jamila Holcomb is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Tallahassee, Florida, specializing in individual, family, and trauma counseling. He is the founder and CEO of Genesis Psychiatric Solutions, a mental health outpatient clinic with offices in Virginia and Washington D.C.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

There are more clinically trained social workers than psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses combined. In fact, social workers are often the only mental health care providers in many rural and remote communities. The job is not a typical 8-hour workday . There is no typical day for a social worker.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

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.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

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. My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression.

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Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Beautiful Voyager

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

I was absolutely convinced that if she made that called, the police would force my admission into a psychiatric hospital where I would be locked up for the rest of my life. I remember that for me trying to find a therapist was so hard, complicated and exhausting. Losing everything, including myself. That is pure peer support.

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Psychology Mental Health Recovery Depression 52

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled. Therapy may look like something which it makes sense to pay for if it’s dressed up as something technical - as if the patient is merely consulting for the therapist’s skill or knowledge. What did he mean?

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