KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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Foster Care Adoption Mental Health Hospitals 52

Relias

AUGUST 22, 2023

This results in a lack of empathy or emotional reserve for persons Causes of provider burnout Most providers get into their field to do meaningful work and help others. This is when providers start feeling emotionally distant or detached from their clients or patients, feel like life is “less real,” or they may feel numb.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Administration Psychiatric Mental Health 52

Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 1, 2021

how they implemented interventions with patients and how they communicated, showed empathy etc.) Dropouts and terminators from a community mental health center: Their use of other psychiatric services. Psychiatric Quarterly, 51 (4), 271–279. in an early session of psychotherapy. Carpenter, P. Del Gaudio, A. C., & Morrow, G.

Psychotherapy 98

Psychotherapy Therapist Clinic Psychology 98

The Vintage Social Worker

AUGUST 2, 2022

Or indeed the terror of walking into a ward in one of the old style psychiatric hospital day rooms when you are only 10. The latter is bad enough when you are an adult who is used to facing that situation.

Schools 81

Schools Psychiatric Empathy Welfare 81

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.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Psychology Recovery Hospitals 52

Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. The stigma around mental health What will people around me think if they find out I take psychiatric medication? You will see that they can be much more than “ just” meds. A lesser person?

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Recovery Psychiatric Anxiety 52

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.

Psychiatry 59

Psychiatry Schizophrenia Psychology Empathy 59

Relias

OCTOBER 3, 2022

While PFA is not a substitute for therapy or other forms of psychiatric care, agencies can use it to help reduce stress and trauma immediately following a disaster. A great way to do this is through a respectful display of empathy. As discussed above, myriad behavioral and mental health issues can arise following a disaster.

Human Services 52

Human Services PTSD Mental Health Anxiety 52

Learning Social Worker

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The psychiatric hospital, in its forbidding Victorian building, was somewhere you got ‘put away’. This was my first experience of being spoken to harshly and without any empathy or compassion. It’s time to make ‘good trouble’ about this. Out of sight, out of mind’ or so the saying goes. I volunteered there. It was full of misery.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Disorder Hospitals Psychiatric 52

Beautiful Voyager

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

One of the best examples is the anti-self-compassion/anti-empathy phrase: “ stop whining, pull yourself together and carry on ”. I was absolutely convinced that if she made that called, the police would force my admission into a psychiatric hospital where I would be locked up for the rest of my life.

Psychology 52

Psychology Mental Health Recovery Depression 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. Mental health was not talked about openly.

Mental Health 64

Mental Health Justice and Corrections Interventional Psychiatric 64

Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Being one of the only Black people in a field that prides itself on empathy and emotional intelligence is often a hard feat, particularly during times of civil unrest. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association , 1 (4). For Black trainees: Give yourself grace. Heilemann, M. Fauer, A., & Mead, M. Comas-Díaz, L.,

Clinic 52

Clinic Psychology Mental Health Engagement 52

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My current internship has provided me with so many opportunities to meet with community partners, learn how to use anticipatory empathy, and practice motivational interviewing. My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician.

Justice and Corrections 52

Justice and Corrections LMSW Schools Mental Health 52

Social Workers Speak

JULY 14, 2023

According to SAMHSA, the National Association of Social Workers and the Association of Social Work Boards , the more than 250,000 clinical social workers within America’s health and human service systems are the largest group of mental health providers in the nation — more than psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychiatric nurses combined.

Domestic Violence 52

Domestic Violence Clinic Social Worker Mental Health 52

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.

Social Worker 40

Social Worker Self-harm Psychiatric Welfare 40