Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A study from Psychiatry International found possible benefits of mindfulness to help with self-compassion, quality of life, well being, depression, and anxiety. Zylowska believes that the more a client works on regulating their attention and executive functioning skills, the better they become at managing their ADHD symptoms.

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Clinical Philosophy

JULY 1, 2019

Unlike the Maudsley Reader , which is the only other collection still in print, the Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology is a 98 chapter collection of newly written essays , covering a wide variety of topics.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The college called on the government to fund an expansion of medical school places and psychiatry training posts. . “Central to this is government backing to address the workforce crisis that continues to plague mental health services,” he said.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 26, 2021

According to Dr. John Walkup, chair of the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Lurie Children’s Hospital, 20% of children had mental health challenges before the end of high school, even before the pandemic. The most significant jump was in loneliness , while the steepest decline was in positive social relationships.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 11, 2021

According to Dr. John Walkup, chair of the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Lurie Children’s Hospital, 20% of children had mental health challenges before the end of high school, even before the pandemic. The most significant jump was in loneliness , while the steepest decline was in positive social relationships.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 27, 2022

She is cross appointed to the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She has over 20 years of experience in children’s mental health including Clinical Director. She was Dean of the Faculty from 2009 to 2019.

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Beautiful Voyager

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A meta-analytic study from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry analyzed the prevalence and characteristics of self-harm in adolescents across 41 countries. Results showed that the average age of starting self-harm was 13 years old and the most common type of self-harm was cutting.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The psychiatrist helps mainly through the prescribing of medication. Many issues related to mental illness or health have a medical basis and medication, while perhaps controversial or not always helpful for some, are quite helpful to the vast majority where indicated.

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Bipolar Bandit

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Since its original description over 160 years ago, Bipolar Disorder has been a tough diagnosis to make accurately. At different times called “circular insanity,” “manic depressive psychosis,” and “manic depression,” Bipolar Disorder was not officially recognized as a standalone mental illness until 1980.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 10, 2025

Symptoms of anxiety include avoiding the situation that triggers anxiety, says Dr. Takesha Cooper , assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine and a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Riverside County Department of Mental Health's Lake Elsinore Family Mental Health Services.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I have learned these lessons on the front lines as a Mom, and the road ahead in helping those in crisis with serious mental illness. A person who has a serious mental illness and is in crisis may be experiencing paranoia, delusions, hallucinations and be feeling threatened and fearful. Their brain is not functioning normally.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 17, 2024

I have made it a point to not talk about medications on my blog, social media. It is actually a rule in my Facebook group Advocates for People with Mental Illnesses not to talk about medications. My reason is everyone is different.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Bipolar Bandit’s Story. My mom wrote these: (Click on title to be brought to the article.). Part 1 How having a mentally ill child affects the famil y. Part 2: Trying to Figure out What was Wrong with my Dau g hter. Part 3: My Daughter’s Diagnosis and my Reaction. HOW I DEAL WITH HER MANIC EPISODES.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 22, 2023

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42(4), 535-542 – National Institute of Mental Health (2015). Pediatrics, 115(2), 277-280 – Sukhodolsky, D.G., Kassinove, H., Gorman, B.S., & Ellis, H.C. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). – Autism Speaks (2019).

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Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

What inspired you to write the book, Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry , that got published in October of 2018? . I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 17, 2024

Petition I have made it a point to not talk about medications on my blog and social media. It is actually a rule in my Facebook group Advocates for People with Mental Illnesses not to talk about medications. My reason is everyone is different and most of us are not medical professionals.

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Clinical Philosophy

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

A classic CBT formulation of that panic which is met with in panic disorder - a formulation owed to David Clark - looks like this: The idea, I believe, is that we're to read the arrows as meaning 'and then this leads to.' We might say that they're perhaps intended as 'causal' relations. For clinical purposes the model is helpful.

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 30, 2024

Georgia Ede which explains the nuts and bolts of using a ketogenic diet for mood disorders and brain health, and Brain Energy by psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer that explains Metabolic Psychiatry’s science. Metabolic Psychiatry is the exciting field associated with ketogenic diets for mental health.)

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SECTIONED

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Outcome 2: I do gain access to mental health care, treatment & support Even if the care at that time is excellent, there is no continuing of care so, each time I see a new psychiatrist, they will want to start from scratch as if their colleagues were all untrustworthy twits then go off at a tangent, changing or adding diagnoses (whether telling (..)

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 30, 2024

Georgia Ede which explains the nuts and bolts of using a ketogenic diet for mood disorders and brain health, and Brain Energy by psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer that explains Metabolic Psychiatry’s science. Metabolic Psychiatry is the exciting field associated with ketogenic diets for mental health.)

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 30, 2024

Georgia Ede which explains the nuts and bolts of using a ketogenic diet for mood disorders and brain health, and Brain Energy by psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer that explains Metabolic Psychiatry’s science. Metabolic Psychiatry is the exciting field associated with ketogenic diets for mental health.)

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

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). In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He is also an adjunct professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Community Medicine & Family Health, and Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Benjamin Reese is a clinical psychologist and president of BenReese, LLC, a North Carolina-based global diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firm.

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Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

I want to leave off discussion of philosophical psychiatry's curious use of that preposition for another time; for now the focus shall be on her reading of Laing & Esterson (hereafter: Laing). Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them.

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Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 13, 2021

Having thereby deconstructed his own profession he perhaps rather had to move on - as it happened to medicine, psychiatry and neuroscience.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 25, 2022

Child and adolescent psychiatrist whose work with bereaved young people resulted in the book When Father Kills Mother Dora Black, who has died aged 89 of cancer, was a pioneering child and adolescent psychiatrist who voiced a much-needed refrain, “but what about the children?”,

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I was even co-training psychiatry residents (students) in family therapy along with the staff psychiatrist. I was about thirty years old when my first marriage ended. I was a social worker at a large children’s mental health centre. Much of my work involved providing family and marital therapy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

That’s not what another distinguished Massachusetts doctor said – again, back when it was Donald Trump’s ICE agents doing the taking: From the time they are born, children emotionally attach to their caregiver and vice versa, said Lisa Fortuna, medical director for child and adolescent psychiatry at Boston Medical Center [Emphasis added.]

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