Preventing, Predicting, & Dismantling Problems Ahead
Asking yourself: "What issues seem to pop up consistently?"
Asking yourself: "What issues seem to pop up consistently?"
hen the worker finds him or herself front and center in the life of the client. Becoming the object of their desire and madness, emotions and even feelings of safety become subsumed into the client's…
“I was just following orders.” The Nuremberg defense, just following orders, Due Obedience, or by the German phrase Befehl ist Befehl (“an order is an order”). This plea justified Nazi crimes against humanity. ‘Just following orders’ implies that the…
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So, I was just reading an article by Neesa Suncheuri called: How My Schizoaffective Disorder Helps Me Help Others In this article, the author likens the side effects (no pun intended) of not working and…
As 2020 fast approaches, I can’t help but think its necessary to reflect on what was the most ambitious, self-directed, and awe-inspiring ten years of my life. There wasn’t a moment I would re-live, so…
When I first began writing about mental health, and topics concerning my own experience with schizophrenia, I was a bit naive. I thought since I lived through “this”, meaning, the various incidents, challenges, and pitfalls…
I am field instructor for graduate and undergraduate student in social work going for their bachelors and masters degrees. I am also a professor of social work in a university. As a field instructor, I…
There is nothing more profound than healing and recovery from extreme perilous circumstances and returning to a more normal life.
My last pet in Binghamton was a ferret named Clausewitz. While I often don’t speak of Clausewitz openly anymore, I feel it is time to reflect on his memory. During the past few years, and…
Hope is never truly lost until you stop believing in recovery
When you carry a mental health diagnosis, you are in almost constant fear of relapsing
There is no question that family participation in a person’s mental health treatment is beneficial and critical to manage the long-standing problems that surface during a person’s recovery from a mental health disorder. This message…
I was asked to write down three things I cannot live without on a piece of scrap paper for a seminar on interpretation.
The ethics of workers in the helping profession is constantly under the radar
In April of that Spring, I was not only receiving assistance through the disabilities office on campus, I was also speaking at their ceremony and reception for graduating students.
to determine if J PETERS is safe to continue as a student, the final statement following the list of concerns and written by the Dean of Harper College
When I arrived at their E&R I was taken into a room and told I was no longer welcome at the clinic and needed to go elsewhere for services
I was an English major in college. Like many students studying language, I loved words, meaning-making, and using rhetoric to both dazzle and re-orient my listener to whatever I was spitting out of my mouth.…