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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. 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. A lot of advocates complain about how HIPAA interferes with care.

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Preventing school shootings

Stop Abuse Campaign

New patients can face significant wait times and unhealthy limits on how many times they can see a therapist. Quality: Let’s say you find a therapist and you like them. But your therapist says this is the only modality of therapy that they’re comfortable using on you, and it’s the only thing your insurance will cover.

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Self-Parenting for Abuse Survivors

Stop Abuse Campaign

There are different types of mental health professionals that you can work with, such as psychologists, therapists, and psychiatric nurses. Answer these ten confidential questions developed with the CDC and understand your warning signs. You can also get guidance through victim advocates. Do you know your score? Raffy Jeanne.

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KVC Health Systems and Emporia State University Launch Data Analytics Research to Benefit Children in Foster Care

KVC

KVC not only provides these direct services; its team of developers and data scientists also built and maintain the mobile-friendly case management software and other applications that help social workers and therapists do their work. Students will also learn about how to recognize and account for implicit bias in data.

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Suicide prevention means child protection

Stop Abuse Campaign

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. Answer these ten confidential questions developed with the CDC and understand your warning signs. Then a more extended commitment may follow. Do you know your score?

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day. My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression.