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The long awaited second edition Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications by Herbert Mwebe

The Critical Blog

This jargon-free book is suitable for all trainee and registered health professionals who require knowledge and understanding of drugs used in the treatment of mental health conditions for prescribing or administering purposes. The arbiter of whether these medications are useful or not is the person taking the medication.

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Costume, Cosplay and Dressing Up: Fashion and Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

Research has shone a fascinating light onto the power costume can have on our mental health. A few years ago, many conversations were had around Halloween costumes where people can dress up as a mental health patient or an ‘asylum escapee’. So it’s worth mentioning clearly - mental illness is not a costume.

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20 Success Stories: Mental Health, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption Support Transform Lives

KVC

KVC Health Systems is a family of nonprofit organizations working to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. Storytelling’s power is why, each year, KVC Health Systems holds a Story Contest.

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Warning! Beware of Tardive Dyskenisia

Bipolar Bandit

However, I do feel a responsibility to caution you about taking psychiatric medications without doing research about side effects and become familiar with the signs of tardive dyskenisia. One thing that is REALLY important is that if you and your mental health professional decide you need to go off a causation drug, you taper off VERY slowly.

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Why Did It Take Me So Long To Accept My Mental Health Medication?

Beautiful Voyager

I started doing an inventory: I launched my own mental health consulting business, completed a few training sessions, quickly boosted my professional network, got involved in various projects and the list goes on. Not another mental health diagnosis and medication! referring to my worst mental health challenges).

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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. Breakdown is dedicated to this population. .

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News Items – May 25, 2023

Social Workers Speak

News Items – May 25, 2023 Carmen Reese Foster is a member of NASW-TN: Lack of empathy: Growing anxiety and depression follows wave of activism for Black social workers Milwaukee Independent Since the 2020 racial reckoning, social workers have prided ourselves on working to eliminate social justice disparities.