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News Items – July 8, 2022

Social Workers Speak

The first time she left her community was to attend an elementary school. June is PTSD Awareness Month. She specializes in treating trauma and PTSD. Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital adds social work fellowship program. It did not go well for her. How Michiganders are handling abortion concerns. MyFox28Columbus.

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. But I do believe there is a sliver of hope, and for people that suffer from severe depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar, etc…sometimes that is all we need. The entanglement of delusions and psychosis had long ago become too much to bear.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

Intrusive thoughts or flashbacks of a traumatic event are similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Experts agree that regardless of culture, a "nervous breakdown" means that the individual is no longer able to do his " normal functioning " due to extreme emotional or psychological distress or a psychiatric condition.

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Addressing Racism and Racial Trauma in Behavioral Healthcare: A Review With the Experts

Relias

Schools in Black communities remain underfunded, with implicit bias impacting the assessment and evaluation of Black students in these schools. Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD.

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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the School of Social Work is able to offer a number of scholarship opportunities to our BSW and MSW students each academic year. Rachelle Bataille, Bachelor of Social Work This scholarship meant a lot to me because this has been one of my most challenging school years.

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Does Anyone Care? Shocking Barriers Killing Our Mental Health

Stop Abuse Campaign

Many of our fellow citizens on the street are underpaid veterans who have untreated PTSD, which makes finding a stable job nearly impossible due to the mental health issues they experience. Sadly, when these children grow up, they will most likely have psychiatric problems that remain with them (Stop Abuse Campaign 2018).

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

Denise Sloan and Brian Marx discusses findings from a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry that compares the effectiveness of a brief exposure-based therapy for PTSD with Cognitive Processing Therapy with implications for finding the ‘right treatment dose’ for reducing symptoms. Watts et al.). 2012; Nacasch et al.,

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