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Matt Smith Quoted in Psychiatric News on How Virtual Reality Can Help Patients with Serious Mental Illness

Michigan Social Work

Professor Matt Smith spoke with Psychiatric News about how virtual reality can support job seekers with serious mental illness. To help patients prepare for a job interview, Smith developed a virtual reality interview training program informally known as Molly (the name of the virtual hiring manager).

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‘I believe in the value of social work’: launch editor looks back as Community Care turns 50

Community Care

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Even at university, Mark got involved with the International Voluntary Service, where he started a group to help psychiatric patients with painting and decorating. The group amassed over a hundred people.

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Guest Post: Interview with Merryl Hammond, PD; Author of Mad Like Me and Navigating Bipolar Country

Bipolar Bandit

Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD, Editor of Navigating Bipolar Country and author of Mad Like Me Q: To start, could you tell us a bit about your background and work, Merryl? Nothing worked until — after two psychiatric hospitalizations — they finally found a combination of five meds that stabilized me (and virtually knocked me senseless!).

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Depression and suicide risk: An interview with new MQ Fellow Dr Alexandre Lussier

MQ Mental Health

Following my PhD, I trained in computational biology and statistical genetics at Cornell University, working on X chromosome variation and psychiatric disease. After this brief fellowship, I began my postdoctoral training in psychiatric and genetic epidemiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS).

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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. A lot of advocates complain about how HIPAA interferes with care.

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Art of Diagnosis – In-person

University of Connecticut

Whether a condition is considered a disorder is based in social and political context, and certainly, what questions we ask in the psychiatric interview is culturally influenced. Clinical diagnosis may seem safe from cultural, political, and social influence, but in fact, it is often guided by these forces.

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Diversity Spotlight: Nadine A. Chang, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

In addition to these faculty appointments, Dr. Chang also serves as the senior psychologist and psychology training director at the inpatient psychiatric hospital, Gracie Square Hospital , and is chair of the Asian Psychiatry Program Committee.