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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

What inspired you to write the book, Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry , that got published in October of 2018? . I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5). In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown.

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

Relias

Dr. Jamila Holcomb is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Tallahassee, Florida, specializing in individual, family, and trauma counseling. 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.

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why we panic

Clinical Philosophy

And it's the state of mind for which a soothing, rationally grounded, sanely competent, consistently mentalising, parent or therapist can be very helpful. For the child or neurotic adult can, by experiencing the 'holding' that the therapist or mother etc. It might not matter too much if she does or doesn't, so long as she seems to.)

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Teen Cutting

Beautiful Voyager

A meta-analytic study from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry analyzed the prevalence and characteristics of self-harm in adolescents across 41 countries. Your teen’s therapist can help create a safety plan to teach teens to cope with their thoughts and emotions and also help you make the home environment safer.

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Blogs Written by The Parents of Someone Who Has Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Bandit

Bipolar Bandit’s Story. My mom wrote these: (Click on title to be brought to the article.). Part 1 How having a mentally ill child affects the famil y. Part 2: Trying to Figure out What was Wrong with my Dau g hter. Part 3: My Daughter’s Diagnosis and my Reaction. HOW I DEAL WITH HER MANIC EPISODES.

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Simple Tips: Anger Management for Autistic Children

Social Work Haven

Working with professionals, such as ABA therapists, can provide effective interventions tailored to the individual needs of the child. ABA therapists: Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapists use behavior-focused interventions to help individuals with autism develop new skills and improve their behavior. Kassinove, H.,