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

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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.

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Members in the News – July 7, 2023

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Ohio city rewrites abortion ban, advocacy groups end lawsuit The Hamilton Spectator The lawsuit by the National Association of Social Workers and the Abortion Fund of Ohio argued that the law, passed in May 2021 , represented an “extraordinarily broad” infringement on the constitutional rights of due process and free speech.

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Members in the News – July 28, 2023

Social Workers Speak

We’re never going to build out an infrastructure if the going rate for therapy is $150 on the private market and it’s $70 on our Medicaid system.” Saloner, a well-known expert on raising resilient teens and young adults, has worked with children and families for over 30 years as a therapist, educator, speaker, event producer and coach.

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News Items – November 10, 2022

Social Workers Speak

For instance, social workers provide counseling and support through shelter programs, individual counseling, and court advocacy. Romantic attraction is an emotional response of one person towards another, which can be described as a yearning to admire and join with them,” says therapist Christa McCrorie, LICSW-PIP. Mind Body Green.