I’ve been writing about the hurdles that the mental health care system has been facing since the recession struck the country. What I haven’t written about is where this whole thing is going and which trends are surfacing.
The trend these days is to shift from “monster units” that house 20 ...
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We all occupy roles in our lives. We are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters. We grow up performing these roles. You are born a son, you build relationships with peers, maybe you’ll have children to then become a grandfather or grandmother. And so, these roles get hard-wired into our ...
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I wanted to write a series of posts that you could apply to your job. Something you can relate to wether you are a salesman, doctor, telemarketer or a store manager. Do any of those professions have anything in common with each other? Yes, no. Doesn’t matter. My goal is ...
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Ever felt at work that you are stuck in first or second gear or you are on those days when your motivation is idling. Well, it’s normal. No one can sustain 290 (give or take) days a year at full throttle. If you can you are either alien, on crack ...
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Last December I wrote an article summarizing some of the consequences that the economic recession has brought to the Mental Health Care System and how the inadequacy of some policies and practices have surfaced along with it. Today I’d like to expand on that topic mostly centering in the challenges ...
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The crisis has spread to everywhere and even when signs of recovery are spotted here and there we are not out of the storm yet. Actually, we may have to wait for one or two more years to be back to “normal”.
The Mental Health Care System is no exception to ...
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ScienceDaily (July 29, 2009) — A year ago, a study by Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University researchers reported that fewer than half the patients previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder received an actual diagnosis of bipolar disorder after using a comprehensive, psychiatric diagnostic interview tool –the Structured Clinical Interview for ...
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You are not a lazy person. You work hard. You give your very best every day; and still, every time the alarm clock wakes you up you wish you had a mace to smash it and keep sleeping. And you know what’s the weirdest part? Some time ago you didn’t ...
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In mental health residential environments one of the most difficult things is keeping the clients engaged with the programming and their challenging behaviors to a minimum. Every unit of every organization has a behavioral support system in place (along with structured activities) to achieve this objective. The efficiency and effectiveness ...
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Have you ever wondered if there was any difference in human brain development or a change in personality when a person has grown up in a bilingual household or environment?
Researchers from Baruch College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studied how bilingual people’s personality is unconsciously affected when switching languages, according ...
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I was surfing my stream on Twitter. I stopped at @DrKCBugg . I usually check him out. Kyle had tweeted a link to PsychCentral blogs. Browsing it, I found a post, “OCD: Fact or Fiction“. Don’t be fooled by the title. It’s nothing extreme like “OCD does not exist, it’s ...
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A couple of months ago I wrote an article which included a mention to a client with anger management issues.
Weeks ago, that client that had made notorious improvements was involved in an incident with one of his staff. After a not very significant event, he went berserk and stabbed him ...
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We get to interview all kind of people. Sometimes we have to interview too many in a too short period of time. Sometimes we only have one chance to talk to that person before making conclusions. That’s why it’s important to make the most out of that time. The person ...
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IN the fall of 2005, psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson Jr. was treating an 18-year-old college freshman whom he describes as “intensely depressed, feeling suicidal and doing self-cutting.”
A few years before, Thomson says, he would have interpreted her depression as anger turned inward. But instead he decided that her symptoms ...
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The Interactive Autism Network (IAN) is an innovative online project bringing together tens of thousands of people affected by autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and hundreds of researchers in a search for answers.
Individuals with ASD and their families can share information in a secure setting to become part of the largest ...
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How do I start? It´s gonna be difficult to write this post in a way that everyone can ready it and at the same time don´t commit heresy by not being rigorous and awaken the wrath of my colleagues.
Also, I don´t want to get into the “politics” of Freudian Psychoanalysis ...
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