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

Bipolar Bandit

I increasingly realized that there is no opportunity to influence legislators to change the system in the clinical setting. I wrote Breakdown to appeal for legislative reform because it’s nearly impossible to change the system from within the trenches of clinical work. My job is to make this happen. What do you mean by “mobile”?

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News Items – November 10, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Harris Administration Advances Equity and Opportunity for Black Americans and Communities Across the Country. Tell them you’re not able to find providers and have them do the work for you,” said Jenna Wolfson, a licensed clinical social worker in Santa Cruz County, Calif. The Biden-?Harris The White House. Rocky Mountain PBS.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Expand Medicaid: Less “neglect.” -- Based on her extensive research Prof. Another important book was released in 2023.