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What to Expect When a Child Discharges From a Children’s Psychiatric Hospital

KVC

When a child is discharged from a children’s psychiatric hospital, they will likely experience a range of emotions and expectations for life after their hospital stay. Choosing to admit a child for inpatient psychiatric care is never easy and it can be an overwhelming decision to make. Adjusting routines.

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Your Healthy Outlook Can Promote Resilience and Recovery in Older Adults

Relias

Identifying disorders “Behavioral health” often refers to mental health , psychiatric care, counseling, and substance use disorders treatment. The ways in which you engage older adults throughout the process to build resilience should include a focus on recovery, hope, and well-being.

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The Perspectives Approach to Treating Mental Illness

inSocialWork

It’s pretty much the bible for the classification of psychiatric disorders in the U.S. A holistic, whole-person life story emerges as clients construct recovery with their voice in the center of the narrative. and it arguably dictates assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in huge segments of the helping professions.

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Warning! Beware of Tardive Dyskenisia

Bipolar Bandit

However, I do feel a responsibility to caution you about taking psychiatric medications without doing research about side effects and become familiar with the signs of tardive dyskenisia. As you can see, the list is extensive and does not just include psychiatric medications. It frustrates me.no

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Eating Disorders Awareness Week: What Happens The Day Someone Is Sectioned For Anorexia?

MQ Mental Health

I’d no idea what this particular “section” was, not a clue what ‘being’ it meant and about 3 years ago I’d been introduced to the concept of “mental health” – I just thought this was a made up thing overly dramatic people like me talked about. “You will be taken to a psychiatric facility, and you must go. You have no choice in the matter.”

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The long awaited second edition Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications by Herbert Mwebe

The Critical Blog

These medicines have been around for over 5 decades with evidence showing that they help to lessen and improve the severity of psychiatric symptoms in people suffering with a mental illness. The arbiter of whether these medications are useful or not is the person taking the medication.

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5 Myths About Eating Disorders

MQ Mental Health

Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness. Recovery can take months or years, but many people get better with treatment. Besides medical complications from binge eating, purging, starvation, and over-exercise, studies have shown that suicide is also common among individuals with eating disorders.