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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 6, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

We should remove criminalization of women who are pregnant and taking drugs," Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said in an interview. I treat far more complications from untreated diabetes in the NICU than I do from opioid use disorder." That needs to stop." said Patrick. "I

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

Whereas the typical research study collects data using either a semi-structured interview administered by a research assistant or a self-report questionnaire completed by the client, the norm within real-world practice settings is to provide diagnoses on the basis of an unstructured clinical interview. 23 (Samuel, 2015).

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Harnessing cultural identity as a protective factor in minority mental health: Applications to children and families

Society of Clinical Psychology

Consistent with previous work highlighting the importance of adopting a strengths-based framework for minority mental health (e.g., 2014) and/or interviews (e.g., Cultural Formulation Interview, APA, 2013; University of Connecticut Racial/Ethnic Stress and Trauma Survey, Williams et al., American Psychiatric Association.

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Why Assess?

The Critical Blog

Our interviews also require more than just an ear for words: hearing gaps, hearing what someone’s not saying, and picking up what goes unspoken in a facial expression, or even (if someone’s face is covered, or paralysed by a stroke, for example) in body language alone. Pathologising a subversive or minority worldview is dangerous.

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

Buss, BS; Robinson De Jesús-Romero, BA, MsC; Allison Peipert, BS; Isabella Starvaggi, BS Psychotherapy research in the 21st century Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the disability attributable to health conditions (Whiteford et al., References American Psychiatric Association. In the United States (U.S.),

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them. Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII.