Tag: Mental Health

L'Wren Scott, famous fashion designer and girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, was found hanging from a doorknob which ...

Most coping techniques that teach people how to handle their abnormal anxieties focus on skills that reduce, replace, and avoid ...

Celebrating Social Work may seem like a pointless exercise, or even more cynically, a desperate attempt to save Social Work’s ...

I was the poster child for Vicarious Trauma at least that’s what I liked to tell myself. In the great oppression ...

I wish I was told in Graduate school and even in undergrad to some extent the real meaning of getting ...

I find it fascinating that we, as social workers, proclaim we want to help people make better choices and choose ...

The human services field is a broad one, and it encompasses various organizations that meet the needs of individuals and ...

Drug use is a significant contributing factor of poor health and rising mortality rates in Canada and the United States. ...

According to recent statistics and surveys, more than 10% of Americans shoplift. The vast majority of them shoplift not out ...

In recent news, Yusuf Neville, a prominent African American male, committed suicide by jumping from the parking deck of a ...

The BrotHERhood in Emergency Services It’s summer in Australia, and as usual that means hard work for emergency services. The ...

You can’t take it with you.—Kaufman and Hart Unless you’ve been living on another planet, you’ve probably noticed the ever-increasing ...

We all heard the phrase “Recover is Real”, I honestly didn’t believe it until I learned about Julie Brown and ...

Deciding whether or not to disclose about your mental illness in the workplace can put you in a very compromising ...

Being “green” has become the newest fad, which few could argue is a bad thing.  The part that many aren’t ...

Child Sexual abuse is still a taboo topic in many homes. We don’t talk about it, we don’t want to ...

Postpartum depression can be unexpected for new moms.  As discussed in the last article, new parents often expect to grapple ...

After you leave rehab, it should never be the case that you are out there in the world completely unsupported. ...

Silver Linings Playbook Movie Poster-Weinstein Company In 2012 when Silver Linings Playbook was released, Social Work Helper examined how lack of ...

Jeremy Roberts on Work Life Balance The Mental Health Foundation says when it comes to work-life balance they are “concerned ...