Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group, calls conversion therapy, also known as “reparative therapy,” “dangerous and discredited” and rejected by mainstream medical and mental health organizations for decades. Victoria Advocate. Rick Miller is a member of NASW-MA: If You’re Gay, Should You See a Gay Therapist? Psychology Today.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 29, 2022

Today, she is the Chief Medical Officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) , a nationwide community using research, education and advocacy to advance its goals. They ask questions like, 'Are you currently taking a psychiatric medication or in therapy?' Now, it's over 26%."

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Michigan Girl's Café

MAY 21, 2020

administration and leadership; advocacy and organizing; community-based initiatives; policy analysis and implementation; program development for organizations and communities; and research and evaluation). However, the majority of social work continuing education offerings are targeted for social workers in clinical or psychiatric settings.

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Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. The stigma around mental health What will people around me think if they find out I take psychiatric medication? You will see that they can be much more than “ just” meds. A lesser person?

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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 31, 2022

Yet, he talked his way out of the psychiatric hold and avoided triggering a system that would have prohibited him from buying guns. Melanie has over a decade of legislative advocacy regarding children’s issues, and she has been published in newspapers, magazines and blogs all across the country. Melanie has an ACE score of 6.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

This resource from the American Psychiatric Association provides expert responses to common questions pertaining to PTSD. . This blog from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence discusses the dynamics of abuse and helpful resources. Expert Q&A: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) .

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Relatives also are less likely to demand that their kinship foster children be placed on potent psychiatric medication to make them easier to manage. But Mossaides said children should be stripped of this kind of vigorous advocacy whenever the lawyer happens to think that what the child wants is contrary to the child’s “wellbeing.”

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Beautiful Voyager

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

I was absolutely convinced that if she made that called, the police would force my admission into a psychiatric hospital where I would be locked up for the rest of my life. I was in full panic mode, seven months into a major depression, anxiety disorder and fighting for survival. Losing everything, including myself.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician. In this role, I work in the homes and communities of families to provide therapy services to young people at risk of hospitalization or being placed out of the home for psychiatric reasons.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2017

Governments and advocacy groups have introduced initiatives to combat mental illness stigma, and researchers have worked to identify ways to measure and improve attitudes about mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 62 , 824-826. Corrigan, Druss, & Perlick, 2014; Link, Phelan, & Sullivan 2017). Pescosolido, 2013). Corrigan, P.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If someone attempts suicide, they are likely to experience a profound loss of civil rights- they can be involuntarily committed to psychiatric care for 72 hours. Melanie has over a decade of legislative advocacy regarding children’s issues, and she has been published in newspapers, magazines and blogs all across the country.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If someone attempts suicide, they are likely to experience a profound loss of civil rights- they can be involuntarily committed to psychiatric care for 72 hours. Melanie has over a decade of legislative advocacy regarding children’s issues, and she has been published in newspapers, magazines and blogs all across the country.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

According to one study , 12 percent of adult psychiatric patients receiving treatment in the San Diego County health system had prior incarcerations. Melanie has over a decade of legislative advocacy regarding children’s issues, and she has been published in newspapers, magazines and blogs all across the country.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

According to one study , 12 percent of adult psychiatric patients receiving treatment in the San Diego County health system had prior incarcerations. Melanie has over a decade of legislative advocacy regarding children’s issues, and she has been published in newspapers, magazines and blogs all across the country.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 10, 2022

Wyoming is one of eight states without a law on the books to address the issue of pregnant women using drugs, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, but the advocacy group and others don’t see Oakley’s bill as the right vehicle to address the issue. Casper Star-Telegram. A study published in the journal BMJ on Feb.

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