Category: Change
The Benefits of Taking Inventory
Planning for the future means knowing what went wrong and why,?
J. Peters has always been “Watching”
During history's most decisive and defining moments, I've always been there, gazing upon the events as they unfolded
The Fear of Relapsing when you have a Mental Health disorder😱
When you carry a mental health diagnosis, you are in almost constant fear of relapsing
Learned Helplessness Must be Stopped🔴
One of my biggest struggles as a social worker in human services is challenging learned helplessness.
The Myth of High Functioning📊
Most people do not realize that there is no such thing as high-functioning.
Cigarettes and Tobacco Use in Mental Health Settings
By the time I was hospitalized in the New York State Psychiatric Center in upstate New York a mere five years later, smoking was banned for all patients, staff, and visitors on the hospital campus.
Commitment to Care and Caregiving
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOICE AND FREEDOM IN CHOOSING OUR CARE HAS BECOME A RIGHT.
The Jewish Ghetto Police & Today’s Peer Professional: A Psychology of Complicity
Background Today’s peer professionals in mental health care systems share a similar psychological bend with the Jewish Ghetto Police or Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei. This unit was an auxiliary police force organized within the Jewish ghettos of Nazi-occupied Eastern…