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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

Randye Kaye is the co-creator and host of the popular podcast, Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. Tell us about Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. Our official description: Schizophrenia in the Family. How do we cope? How can we help?

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Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Review

Society of Clinical Psychology

One such intervention is the 2021, Clinician Guide for Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Family-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Approach by Amy Weisman de Mamani, Merranda McLaughlin, Olivia Altamirano, Daisy Lopez, and Salman Shaheen Ahmad 5. empathy) that lead to positive treatment outcomes for patients with schizophrenia.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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Diversity Spotlight: Nadine A. Chang, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Chang holds a position as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine , as well as a role as an Assistant Attending Psychologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

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American Dreams: What’s It Like To Be An MQ Research Fellow In The USA?

MQ Mental Health

One of the first ever MQ Fellows selected was Dr Joshua Roffman from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. Given known areas of overlap in risk for autism and schizophrenia, I wondered whether periconceptional folic acid might also confer protection against schizophrenia risk.

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Accessing Service the Creative Way

Gary Direnfeld

This after a several month stay in the children’s mental health centre to get his schizophrenia under control. In more recent years I consulted with a person whose adult sibling was languishing in hospital. With nowhere to discharge the teen, then 16, the plan was to simply drop him off at a downtown men’s shelter.

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NASW seeks clemency for death-row inmate Johnny Johnson

Social Work Blog

Johnson’s adolescence was riddled with suicide attempts and hospitalizations, and he ultimately was diagnosed with schizophrenia as early as age 16, according to the Missouri Supreme Court. Johnson’s case is particularly concerning given his extensive documented history of mental illness, learning disabilities, abuse, and trauma.