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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

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.

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News Items – April 1, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Dawn Cooperstein is a member: Navigating Intimate Relationships with Complex PTSD. Where post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be the result of a single traumatic incident, complex PTSD , also known as cPTSD, is a condition that arises from surviving repeated or long-lasting traumatic events, often in childhood. Rebellious.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day. Almost no interviews, despite the pile of applications. Better safe than sorry. I exclaimed.

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psychosis, violence, and the fear of madness

Clinical Philosophy

It is very slightly more common for people with psychiatric diagnoses to commit violent crimes than for those without such diagnoses. It does detail however that 25% of those interviewed - i.e. 20 people - felt that they became victims of violence specifically because of their mental health status.)