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Poverty Shouldn’t Be a Child Protection Issue

Gary Direnfeld

This was an industrious kid taking care of himself and parents. Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. He did this as it was the only means of food for his family.

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Three key failures undermine a New York Times exposé of the “troubled teen industry”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The commentary begins this way: It’s known as the troubled teen industry. Spread across the country, this array of boot camps, wilderness therapy programs, therapeutic boarding schools and residential treatment centers is supposed to help children with mental health and behavioral issues, through a mix of therapy and tough love.

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Member Spotlight: Sheehan Fisher, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

Sheehan Fisher, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, where he was recently appointed Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the Graduate School. 2017) Paternal mental health: Why is it relevant? Fisher, SD, Cobo, J, Figueiredo, B. Fisher, SD.

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Nurse Depression and Anxiety: Stopping the Mental Health Crisis

Relias

They are also exposed to high levels of stress, trauma, and burnout, which can take a toll on their mental health. In this article, we’ll look at what causes elevated levels of nurse depression and anxiety, how nurses can help themselves and each other, and how healthcare leaders can support their nurses’ mental health.

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Home Health Agencies Face Financial Burden of Proposed CMS Payment Cut

Relias

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes a decrease in Medicare reimbursement for home health agencies by 4.2% In June, CMS proposed the update to the Home Health Prospective Payment System just days after the U.S. Painful Behavioral Adjustment Looms.

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What is Mild Intellectual Disability (MID)

Gary Direnfeld

While they may gain employment, jobs tend to be in manual or simple service industries. Indeed, many educators are also unaware of the implications of the label and associated issues, instead finding the child simply difficult to understand or help and attributing issues to personality characteristics or just behavior.

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At last! One news organization gets the makeshift placement story right!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Instead, the reporters would accept as gospel the party line from the “residential treatment” industry. The residential treatment typically responds by saying something like: Even if you have enough families, what about all those children with “really complex or sophisticated behavioral health needs”?