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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? I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my lifeā€¦ Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder? A: Thankfully, no.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Safety planning has proven an effective means of supporting those struggling with mental health crises, abusive relationships, or other forms of trauma. Psychiatric Advance Directives. When creating a safety plan, make sure you work with your client to put the plan in their own words. Substance use disorder. Domestic violence.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Safety planning has proven an effective means of supporting those struggling with mental health crises, abusive relationships, or other forms of trauma. Psychiatric Advance Directives. When creating a safety plan, make sure you work with your client to put the plan in their own words. Substance use disorder. Domestic violence.

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How to Create a Disaster Behavioral Health Plan

Relias

In this article, we cover what disaster behavioral health is, why itā€™s important, and how to formulate a disaster behavioral health response plan. In this article, we cover what disaster behavioral health is, why itā€™s important, and how to formulate a disaster behavioral health response plan. What is disaster behavioral health?

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

I took this picture along one of the park's many trails and I have named it "Walking Out of the Woods. For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospitalā€™s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. What do you want to do?ā€ I told him I didnā€™t feel right.

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Effects of Social and Clinical Characteristics on Alzheimerā€™s Disease Stigma: A Narrative Review for Clinicians Talking with Patients and Families

Society of Clinical Psychology

What drives stigma reactions? Understanding what aspects of the disease experience signal higher stigma may help clinicians interpret patient symptoms and guide interventions to improve wellbeing. Is it the diseaseā€™s symptoms, prognosis, diagnosis, or something else? Stites, Milne, et al., 2001; Link et al.,

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