The Critical Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Whilst there are various alternative interventions to managing moderate to severe mental health presentations, psychotropic medications remain the mainstay interventions used in various clinical settings. The arbiter of whether these medications are useful or not is the person taking the medication. ISBN: 9781914171444 235pp £24.99.

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Mental Health Psychiatric Schizophrenia Interventional 96

Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In the referenced article, the Inventory of Therapeutic Interventions and Skills (Boyle et al., how they implemented interventions with patients and how they communicated, showed empathy etc.) Therapist interventions and skills as predictors of dropout in outpatient psychotherapy. Psychiatric Quarterly, 51 (4), 271–279.

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Psychotherapy Therapist Clinic Psychology 98

American Board of Clinical Social Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

One draws the therapist’s intervention, while the other is “better behaved”. The skilled therapist must work to develop a deeper–and equally balanced–understanding and empathy for both partners’ contributions to their repetitive conflicts.

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Therapist Psychiatric Empathy Disorder 40

Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2017

Social psychological research has demonstrated that contact can increase knowledge about and empathy toward stigmatized individuals, as well as reduce the inter-group anxiety that leads to avoidance of members of stigmatized groups (see Pettigrew & Tropp, 2011). Psychiatric Services, 62 , 824-826. doi:10.1016/s0065-2601(05)37005-5.

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Psychiatry Schizophrenia Psychology Empathy 59

MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Just like an inmate in a prison, those who experience inpatient psychiatric care also might experience a costume of sorts. Research shows there’s a lot of identity exploration, empathy and self-acceptance that can come through the potential of using costume.

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Mental Health Psychology Recovery Hospitals 52

Learning Social Worker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The book, He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons - a bereaved mother's view of mental health services by Caroline Aldridge (2020), and the postcards with quotes from it, can be used in many ways to help students and practitioners to develop reflexiveness, empathy, and values-based practice. Evidences: PCF - 7 (skills and interventions).

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Mental Health Justice and Corrections Interventional Psychiatric 64

The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

I have seen this in practice: when social workers adopt a ‘power over’ working style, they can act protectively when the situation requires it, but can easily slip into an oppressive mode of practice if, for example, they become exasperated with a service user and lose empathy with them. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

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