Mental Health

Often, helping professionals in the lives of foster care youth struggle to understand the magnitude of loss a child or teen...

Hazing incidents among high school athletes have been increasingly common in recent years. Unfortunately, students and the broader community sometimes...

Most of our devices work 24 hrs a day and 7 days a week. Email apps sends us notifications round...

Recently, the mental health world of the UK has been struck by quite a debate about the nature of “mental...

Words shape the direction of our lives. The words spoken to us, around us and over us create pathways upon which...

Interpersonal exchanges can trigger strong emotions. Just as the skills we learn through personal mindfulness practice can help us cope...

I was working as a social worker in Denmark for some at a highly specialised university hospital until I moved...

Psychotropic treatments for children in foster care can be appropriate, but this form of therapy requires considerable oversight and advocacy...

Our police, paramedics, firefighters and rescue personnel help keep our communities safe. However, the general public does not view this...

How much input can those with lived experience genuinely have when the traditional “experts” have the balance of power in...

We all have our superheroes especially because superheroes have the ability to inspire, empower, support and occasionally save us. Sometimes,...

Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm during a news conference at the Yad...

In 2008, the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act required states to begin developing plans to monitor health...

Add digital skills to the many skill sets we wear as social workers. Our clients are carrying around devices that...

Did you ever see the movie Jerry McGuire?  Jerry wrote a manifesto based on the ills he experienced in his...

By Ed Kashi and Julie Winokaur When working with elderly patients in health care facilities, it is likely that we may forget...

The term gaslighting originates from a play/film called Gas Light, in which a man tries to convince his wife she...

When we think of the holiday's we often think of joyful times with family and friends but for some of...

As a profession, British psychologists have traditionally been slow to rush to the forefront when it comes to societal, political...

Did you know that 1 in 4 American people suffer a mental illness?  That is an estimate of 56% of...