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Member Voices: Be Wary of Mental Health ‘Experts’ on Social Media

Social Work Blog

The next time you stumble on a social media post about mental health, stop to see who posted it and if they have a degree or license in social work, mental health counseling, psychology, psychiatry, or medicine, for example. People who need help should turn to trusted sources.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

A nervous breakdown, also called mental breakdown, refers to the inability to perform functions of daily life due to intense psychological distress. Symptoms of a Nervous Breakdown Various physical, psychological, and behavioral symptoms are present when someone is dealing with a breakdown.

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Clinical Philosophy

Unlike the Maudsley Reader , which is the only other collection still in print, the Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology is a 98 chapter collection of newly written essays , covering a wide variety of topics.

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

I want to leave off discussion of philosophical psychiatry's curious use of that preposition for another time; for now the focus shall be on her reading of Laing & Esterson (hereafter: Laing). Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them.

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

Gary Direnfeld

The psychiatrist helps mainly through the prescribing of medication. Many issues related to mental illness or health have a medical basis and medication, while perhaps controversial or not always helpful for some, are quite helpful to the vast majority where indicated.

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

Relias

He is also an adjunct professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Community Medicine & Family Health, and Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Benjamin Reese is a clinical psychologist and president of BenReese, LLC, a North Carolina-based global diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firm.

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Simple Tips: Anger Management for Autistic Children

Social Work Haven

Social work aims to enhance the mental and emotional health of individuals and families by offering psychological services. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42(4), 535-542 – National Institute of Mental Health (2015). Pediatrics, 115(2), 277-280 – Sukhodolsky, D.G., Kassinove, H.,