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Thoughts on suicide prevention from a survivor

Stop Abuse Campaign

Trigger warning : This story discusses suicide, suicide prevention, and mental health. Balancing my life and my mental health but in control. Twelve years later, and there is an acute shortage of psychiatrists, it is still challenging to get mental health treatment. Jumpers,” she went on to explain.

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

Social workers are the largest group of mental health providers in the United States and treatment of PTSD is one of their specialty areas. Identify future areas of work/growth, boundaries as practitioners as the continued need for mental health treatment remains an essential service during the COVID 19 pandemic in the U.S.

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Preventing school shootings

Stop Abuse Campaign

What about mental health care? While the perpetrators of school shootings have exhibited what might be mental health problems (which often are undiagnosed or treated), in general, people who have mental health illnesses are more likely to be victims of violence than to inflict violence.

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Why Family Courts Usually Fail Abuse Victims

Stop Abuse Campaign

Domestic violence custody cases are often the last chance to save children from painful — and sometimes tragically shortened — lives. . The ACE (adverse childhood experiences) Research helps courts understand the full harm to children from exposure to domestic violence and child abuse. . How Was This Case Different?

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Suicide prevention means child protection

Stop Abuse Campaign

We can break the ten ACEs into three categories: abuse (physical, emotional, and sexual), neglect (physical and emotional), and household or familial stressors (severe parental mental illness, parental addiction, parental domestic violence, parental incarceration and having a parent disappear due to death, abandonment or divorce).