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New York Mayor Plans Treatment, Not Jail, for Thousands

acswa|December 5, 2014|Gun Violence, Important Issues, social justice, behavioral disorders, mental illness, New York, police|0

In New York City, tens of thousands of people who are routinely and repeatedly being sent to jail will...

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Message from Ferguson

Priscilla Gomez|November 26, 2014|Gun Violence, Important Issues, social justice, social services, Stories, Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Michael Brown, social justice|0

Message received: “It is perfectly acceptable in the United States of America for a white police officer to shoot...

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Online Therapy: Virtual as the Real

Robert Booth|October 9, 2014|Topics, apps, clinical social workers, connections, crucial piece, cyber-path, disabilities, effective, effective therapeutic alliance, FaceTime, future, good behavioral healthcare, Google Hangout, Google it!, healthcare delivery, HIPPA privacy rules, hospitalization, incarceration, Internet, interpersonal communications, maintaining personal relationships, med-surg, office visit, online behavioral therapy, online therapy, phone-based, real, regulation, remote a connections, Skype, standard, technology, telemedicine, therapists, used by millions, virtual|0

If the crucial piece of good behavioral healthcare is an effective therapeutic alliance, the future of online behavioral therapy...

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PTSD: Taking it Home with You

Priscilla Gomez|September 29, 2014|Opinion, Stories, Topics, Uncategorized, abuse, abuser, abusers, agency, ailments, all of us, begged, client, clinical social workers, colleagues, come home, court systems, crime, deal with, disease, emotional, environment, experienced, families, functioning, good nights sleep, hard times, healthy lifestyle, heavy weight, homelessness, loved ones, mental illness, military, must, nightmares, outbursts, pervasive, physical, post-traumatic stress disorder, prone to violence, PTSD, resulting in exclusion, self-care, shit ended, sickness, situations, social circles, social programs, uncertainty, unsafe, veterans, wants, war zones, withdrawn|0

The agency where I work had a PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) client who was particularly abrasive to my colleagues...

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Videotape, Image, and Violence (II)

Robert Booth|September 25, 2014|Opinion, Topics, 6-game suspension, American Public, Baltimore Ravens, collapses, commissioner, criminal justice, hitting, image, Janay Palmer, national football league, nfl, outcry, PR, press conference, Ray Rice, Roger Goodell, slugging woman, TMZ, videotape, violence|0

Because of a videotape released by TMZ on Feb. 19, 2014, it was public knowledge that NFL star running...

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The Emotional Cycle of Reporting Abuse

Priscilla Gomez|September 2, 2014|Opinion, Stories, Topics, 51A, acceptance, anger, child, child abuse, cloud of emotions, communal living situation, confusion, culture, custody, domestic violence, emotional, empathy, endured, family, guilt, impact, inability, inevitably, lead, no control, outsiders, parents, protective, social worker, taken, understanding|0

I will never forget the first time I had to file a “51A”, the form that must be filed...

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Veterans Outraged at VA Insult

acswa|August 29, 2014|Topics, Veteran Health Administration, homelessness, Joe Davis, Marisa Prugsawan, mult-media, oscar the grouch, Philadelphia Inquirer, public affairs, suicidal, traumatized, VA internal training program|0

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that a VA internal training program depicts veterans as Oscar the Grouch, the angry green...

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NFL Revises Penalties for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Robert Booth|August 28, 2014|Opinion, Topics, Uncategorized, champion, commissioner, domestic violence, nfl, public reaction, Ray Rice, Roger Goodell, sexual assault, Super Bowl|0

Stung by public reaction to the National Football League’s coddling of admitted domestic abuser Ray Rice, a member of...

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A House Divided, White and Black

Robert Booth|August 22, 2014|Discussion, Opinion, Topics, "no justice, Abraham Lincoln, civil rights, decades, Ferguson, house divided, Missouri, national, no peace", Pew, police brutality, politics, slavery, Trayvon Martin, vigilante, violence|0

We are now, as we have always been, a nation profoundly divided by race and by violence. The first...

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Twitter Diagnostics: Social Media and Behavioral Healthcare

Robert Booth|August 21, 2014|Behavioral Care News, Stories, Topics, "Depression, 140-characters, algorithm, American Statistical Association, and Population in Social Media, David Marchette, depression, depression classifier, diagnosing, Economics, Elizabeth Hohman, Glen Coppersmith, inability, Navy and John Hopkins University, populations, PTSD, SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, silence, system failure, treatment, Twitter|0

In a country where millions of Americans are afflicted with depression and PTSD, and where many of them do...

Videotape, Image, and Violence (II)

Veterans Outraged at VA Insult

NFL Revises Penalties for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

A House Divided, White and Black

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