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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. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly.

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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. While I enjoyed the research process, the subject matter didn’t captivate me.

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. Her diagnosis is 'paranoid schizophrenia'; she believes others can read her thoughts and are constantly discussing her.

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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. She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. How do we cope? How can we help?

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psychosis, violence, and the fear of madness

Clinical Philosophy

The psychological community often attempts to combat the stigma suffered by the mentally ill by challenging the view that people suffering schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions are physically dangerous. of the professionally representative 2017 BPS report Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia.

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Crime prevention starts with protecting children

Stop Abuse Campaign

People in poverty have fewer opportunities around assets such as education, interview practice, resume help, or the proper clothing for an interview. According to one study , 12 percent of adult psychiatric patients receiving treatment in the San Diego County health system had prior incarcerations.

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Crime prevention starts with protecting children

Stop Abuse Campaign

People in poverty have fewer opportunities around assets such as education, interview practice, resume help, or the proper clothing for an interview. According to one study , 12 percent of adult psychiatric patients receiving treatment in the San Diego County health system had prior incarcerations.