Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

NASW recognizes June as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. PTSD impacts millions of people in the United States. According to the National Center for PTSD, a program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, about seven or eight of every 100 people will experience PTSD in their lifetime.”

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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 16, 2022

When it comes to our mental health, every person has different resources for managing it and coping. Adverse Childhood Experiences may challenge a person’s mental health every day, from waking up to falling asleep. No doubt these are harming our nation’s mental health. The current mental health system.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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Relias

OCTOBER 3, 2022

How disasters can affect behavioral and mental health. While some disaster survivors can resume normal life after the end of the event, many others encounter adverse behavioral and mental health effects. These can include anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and more.

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Clinical Philosophy

OCTOBER 31, 2020

It is very slightly more common for people with psychiatric diagnoses to commit violent crimes than for those without such diagnoses. The report also tells us that as a result of people’s fear and prejudice, mental health service users are much more likely than others to be victims of violence.

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