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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’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Their stories motivated me to become a better social worker and write Breakdown. If they don’t qualify for inpatient, I can refer them to outpatient treatment programs or give them self-help material. What is your main work role?

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. -- Based on her extensive research Prof.