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The Clinical Interview In-person

University of Connecticut

How do you address silence, or an unwillingness to participate in the interview? While many trainings examine symptoms, psychopathology, and existing diagnostic assessment tools, this seminar has the actual clinical interview at its focus. How do you refocus a client or deescalate his or her aggression?

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The Clinical Interview In-person

University of Connecticut

How do you address silence, or an unwillingness to participate in the interview? While many trainings examine symptoms, psychopathology, and existing diagnostic assessment tools, this seminar has the actual clinical interview at its focus. learn the components of motivational interviewing.

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Systems for challenging adult social care decisions failing, warns regulator

Community Care

Inaccessible information, “complicated and stressful processes” and a lack of advocacy were undermining people’s ability to challenge local authority decisions in England and Wales, the rights regulator found, on the back of an inquiry it started in 2021. The report also raised concerns about access to advocacy.

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55,000 on waiting lists for child sexual abuse support services, estimates research

Community Care

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) found that just half of services were able to meet demand for services including one-to-one therapy or counselling, group-based interventions, helplines or advocacy for child or adult victims/survivors and family members.

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Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

Community Care

It said that “unclear, complex and energy-sapping” complaints processes, inaccessible information and a lack of advocacy were undermining people’s ability to challenge local authority decisions. You can listen to her full interview here.

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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 had done mental health advocacy work on a national scale for years before beginning to work on Breakdown and was very inspired by advocates’ tragic stories. I’ve detailed high profile cases based on media reports and my interviews with family members. Very few people are aware of the population I help and what they struggle with.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending September 19, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Also in New York City, Black Agenda Radio interviews Anne Venhuizen of The Bronx Defenders about their big win against the family police – successfully suing the family police agency for tearing a child from her mother at birth because the mother smoked marijuana. The interview starts at 27:15 in. ● I have a blog post about it.