Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Although most mobile psychiatric emergency cases have involved mentally high functioning patients, I’ve been most invigorated from helping the most impaired patients, usually suffering from psychosis. Psychosis involves the most anosognosia.

Psychiatry 98

Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. People experiencing a nervous breakdown may show symptoms that are similar to clinical depression. Early intervention and treatment can help prevent worsening of your symptoms, anxiety disorder, clinical depression, or psychosis.

Disorder 96

Disorder Mental Health Self-harm Paranoia 96

Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 30, 2018

This SCP Student Blog post by Adam Duberstein discusses the role of emotional support animals in clinical psychology. While some clinicians write these letters for patients they do not know well, such a letter is more likely to be viewed as legitimate if the therapist has enjoyed a long-established relationship with the patient.

Psychology 52

Psychology Schizophrenia Therapist Disability 52

Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. Dr. Jamila Holcomb is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Tallahassee, Florida, specializing in individual, family, and trauma counseling.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Diversity Consultation Schizophrenia 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Schizophrenia? Clearly my husband wasn’t. Just call,” he insisted. I wondered.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled. Therapy may look like something which it makes sense to pay for if it’s dressed up as something technical - as if the patient is merely consulting for the therapist’s skill or knowledge. What did he mean?

Psychotherapy 52

Psychotherapy Therapist Justice and Corrections Interviewing 52