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What to Do If You Have an Ongoing Psychiatric Crisis + Planning Ahead

Nnatasha Tracy

In an ongoing psychiatric crisis, you're in extreme distress, but your life is not on the line. It's not an acute psychiatric emergency. For information on acute psychiatric emergencies, please see here.) You also want to think about planning ahead for psychiatric crises/emergencies.

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What to Expect When a Child Discharges From a Children’s Psychiatric Hospital

KVC

When a child is discharged from a children’s psychiatric hospital, they will likely experience a range of emotions and expectations for life after their hospital stay. Choosing to admit a child for inpatient psychiatric care is never easy and it can be an overwhelming decision to make.

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How prioritisation tool can help councils tackle their DoLS backlogs

Community Care

No more automatic priority for hospitals The new priority tool has removed the concept of setting specific priority. In the original, tool acute and psychiatric hospitals were automatically given high priority. The new priority tool tightens this up to ‘meaningful, successive attempts to leave’.

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COVID-19 Hospitalization Linked to Long-Term Brain Function Issues, Reveals Latest Research Supported by MQ

MQ Mental Health

They then found health records from a different cohort of patients who had been admitted into hospital for different reasons and compared the data. They followed these patients for two years in order to properly understand the long-term impacts of COVID-19 infection and how it compares to other conditions that resulted in hospitalization.

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Mental Health Organizations Decry Supreme Court Decision Upholding the Criminalization People who are Unhoused

Social Work Blog

The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, American Psychiatric Association, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Association for Rural Mental Health, and National Association of Social Workers on June 28 released the following statement responding to the U.S. PRESS RELEASE: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v.

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Hidden from the world: Out of area hospital placements for people diagnosed with personality disorder #NoOOA

The Social Care Elf

The post Hidden from the world: Out of area hospital placements for people diagnosed with personality disorder #NoOOA appeared first on National Elf Service.

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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. I can authorize involuntary transfers of patients to hospitals.