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‘I believe in the value of social work’: launch editor looks back as Community Care turns 50

Community Care

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. On 3 April 1974, the first ever issue of Community Care was published.

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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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Costume, Cosplay and Dressing Up: Fashion and Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

So, with Juliette Burton's personal story backed up by research, let’s strip away the layers of misconceptions and adorn ourselves in the facts behind the various facades we can all adopt. Just like an inmate in a prison, those who experience inpatient psychiatric care also might experience a costume of sorts.

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

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. When the interviewers go to Maya's home. I quote here from the Preface to the 2nd edition.) a confused one'.

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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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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. It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. That needs to stop."

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

for example, 20% of individuals recall meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) at some point in their lives (Hasin et al., References American Psychiatric Association. In the United States (U.S.), Barkham, M.,