Crisis Interventions: Cops. Peers. What is the right path forward?
The issue that hinges on the docket is Emergency Mental Health
An Effort To Explain “Psychosis”
In society, “reality” is a cultural construct defined by the majority of that culture
Breaking The Rules Saved A Man’s Life
I told him he “looked like shit” and asked if he had slept or eaten.
De-bunking ACCCEPTANCE and COMMITMENT THERAPY (ACT)
ACT is a ‘third wave’ behaviour therapy approach with a supposedly ‘expanded perspective on how to guide clients to skilfully self-regulate.emotional distress and conflicting states of mind’,
HARPs at 5 Years: What Have We Learned?
The state agencies cited are by no means the only entities working to achieve these goals
Your typical ‘crazy’ person or ‘nutbag’
I seem to remember a day when different was both a good thing and a bad thing.
Undiagnosed (Part One): Why Was I Given a Psychiatric Diagnosis?
My parents were taught that “love” was the same as “abuse”; and sadly, it has always been that way.
BINARY RELATIONSHIPS COMPLICATING THE CLINICAL PROCESS
It subsumes the patient and encircles him or her in its grasp.
The Early Warning System
I want to introduce a concept called the Early Warning System
THOSE LIKE US AND FIGHT FOR US
The only time mental health issues makes the news is when some tragic involves someone with mental illness.
The Mental Health Advocacy Spectruum
Why are these the poster patients of AOT? Because the most severely ‘disordered’ folks do not benefit from AOT.
Fall Sports 2020, Not Like it Used To Be
In 2020, sports is not like it used to be
Sleeping Amid the Ruins
I have insomnia, and only sometimes feel somnolent.
I’m a Social Worker: My Mental Health and Well-being Have Been Put to the Test by COVID-19
Working together, I am fully convinced this crisis will only embolden our mission and strengthen our skills further in the social work profession.
ANXIETY: SIMILAR FOR HAMLET AND FOR US
Keep in mind everyone, anxieties, and Mental Health Issues are not death sentences.
Keeping your Head Above Water
Too often it seems we are trapped in our own ignorance, mistakes, and deficits. I
Mental Ilness: Who Am I?
Finding the self, soul’s truth is essential for spiritual life.
In Response to the Mighty ‘I Have a Mental Illness…And I’m Fine with That ‘.
People that rate highly on the GAF are termed ‘high-functioning’
Fear of Embracing ‘Lived Experience’
In my profession particularly, the helping field, and for all of us that simply enjoy time spent in others’ companies, there is an unspoken fear that the person we are speaking to won’t listen or isn’t listening.
How to Cope with the loss of a Therapist or Case Manager
Patients want to know how they will survive after their workers
retire or move on to a new position somewhere else in the mental health system.
STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION ABUSED BY MEDIA
Worst of all, the media shows people with mental illness as incompetent, dangerous, and undeserving, which deters everyone from understanding each other. Enough is enough!
The Peer Standard⚖️
There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community.
Use of Metaphors in the Therapy office 🕵️♂️
The problem runs as deep as what practitioners face when practicing psychotherapy
STIGMA OR POSSIBLY DISCRIMINATION?
Why can’t we all get along?
Language and Stigma: The Objectification of Mental Illness
‘Othering’ serves to not only create an object of hatred but also of people’s discrimination.
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