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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 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. Jon, who is suspicious of the FBI is at a homeless shelter.

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News Items – May 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Someone with sociopathic tendencies might, for instance, lack empathy for others, but still be a law-abiding, job-holding individual, she says. Louis Post-Dispatch Meanwhile Becky Beck, a licensed clinical social worker who works with the Columbia nonprofit DeafLEAD , has some reservations about using technology for mental health.

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News Items – May 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Someone with sociopathic tendencies might, for instance, lack empathy for others, but still be a law-abiding, job-holding individual, she says. Louis Post-Dispatch Meanwhile Becky Beck, a licensed clinical social worker who works with the Columbia nonprofit DeafLEAD , has some reservations about using technology for mental health.