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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Unlike PTSD, which is a mental illness that develops in adulthood when an adult is aware of the traumatic experience they go through, cPTSD is a mental illness borne of ongoing trauma in childhood. The four least represented groups were migrant, BAME, physically disabled, and LGBTQ children which were all “severely underrepresented”.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Unlike PTSD, which is a mental illness that develops in adulthood when an adult is aware of the traumatic experience they go through, cPTSD is a mental illness borne of ongoing trauma in childhood. The four least represented groups were migrant, BAME, physically disabled, and LGBTQ children which were all “severely underrepresented”.

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Is Mental Health a Human Right?

MQ Mental Health

In recent years there has been movement towards viewing disability in a social model (or human rights approach) and not in a medical model. This means viewing disability as a societal problem, not exclusively a medical science issue. To put it another way, someone with a disability of mental illness has a condition.

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Members in the News – August 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

My main specialty is in providing trauma therapy to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In Illinois, data shows that first-time pass rates vary by race and ethnicity. I provide online counseling services to adults living in the Commonwealth of Virginia. I am a native New Yorker but relocated. .”

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