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Mental Health News
7 weeks ago
Funding for dementia research is to reach £66m by 2015, from £26.6m 2010, making UK a world leader in the fieldFunding for research into dementia is to be more than doubled by 2015 in an attempt to make Britain a world leader in the field, David Cameron will announce.The prime minister will declar[...]
7 weeks ago
Reese is a 2002 graduate of River Valley High School and earned two bachelor's degrees in Social Work and Psychology from Ohio University, Athens, in 2006. She is currently employed with the Area Agency on Aging, District 7. Her grandparents are Herman ...
Daily Sentinel via Google News 7 weeks ago
At 17, Justin Torres was struggling to come to terms with what he felt was a 'filthy sexuality'. When his parents found out, they sent him to a mental hospital. It's a decision that 15 years later, he is still trying to understandThey came for me at the mall, in a head shop. I was 17 years old,[...]
7 weeks ago
Six years ago, Naked Rambler Stephen Gough's hike from Land's End to John O'Groats brought him media fame – and a prison sentence. Then another, and another, and… Why has he been locked up ever since?Winter at HMP Perth. The river Tay carries slivers of ice on its journey past the prison wall. P[...]
8 weeks ago
In an extract from his new book, William Poundstone considers the logic puzzles, trick questions, mind-bending riddles that make Google interviews notoriously hard. Would you make it through to the next round?We live in an age of desperation. Never in living memory has the competition for job openin[...]
8 weeks ago
A new study suggests patients can be conditioned to respond to a placebo in place of a drug, allowing doses to be reducedFew of us would be happy to find out that we'd been prescribed a placebo. When we're sick, we want real medicine.But what if the placebo was not intended to replace your medicine,[...]
8 weeks ago
Returning my degree to Oxford University was a protest against the platform offered to the extreme group Christian ConcernEarlier this month I returned my degree to Oxford University. This was in protest at the failure of my old college – Exeter – to adequately address the widespread offence cau[...]
8 weeks ago
Minimum alcohol price could rise above 40p a unitSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Minimum alcohol price could rise above 40p a unit
• Scotland weighs up level of alcohol minimum pricing
• How Lansley and drinks industry lined up against alc[...]
• Scotland weighs up level of alcohol minimum pricing
• How Lansley and drinks industry lined up against alc[...]
8 weeks ago
Fresh details have emerged about how four "dangerous" teenagers escaped from a secure mental health unit — sparking calls for the facility to be permanently shut.
www.thisislondon.co.uk via Zibb.com News 8 weeks ago
Spot checks found evidence of blank forms being signed in anticipation of patients seeking a terminationSome doctors are breaking the law by "pre-signing" abortion consent forms, the government has said. Spot checks at more than 250 abortion clinics this week found evidence of blank forms being sign[...]
8 weeks ago
Budget 2012: the verdictSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Alcohol abuse contributes to big rise in deaths from liver disease
• Former Dale Farm resident loses court case over caravan home
• Wayne Hemingway: The British high street is dead â€[...]
• Former Dale Farm resident loses court case over caravan home
• Wayne Hemingway: The British high street is dead â€[...]
8 weeks ago
Appeal court judges dismiss appeal despite warning that John Sheridan would suffer psychiatric harm if forced to live in one-bedroom flat An Irish traveller who was forced to leave the illegal Dale Farm site has failed to persuade senior judges that a local authority should be obliged to re-home him[...]
8 weeks ago
Deaths rose by 25% in less than a decade, with highest rates in north-west and north-east, report finds Heavy drinking is a major cause of a 25% increase in deaths from liver disease in England in under than a decade, according to the government's specialist NHS unit on terminal care.The first repor[...]
8 weeks ago
The law presumes that women who kill violently abusive partners had the option to walk away. In reality, it's not so easyA few years ago, a young woman named Natasha shot and killed her boyfriend in the apartment they were sharing. He had trapped her in the bedroom and was about to launch into anoth[...]
8 weeks ago
...for vulnerable children? There is a danger that vital social work experience and expertise could be lost," he said...Children and Young People Services - Calderdale Council Social Work Services (SWS) to British Forces in Overseas Location...
Communitycare.co.uk via Zibb.com News 8 weeks ago
As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Wellness Pointe supplies integrated and comprehensive Family Practice, OB/GYN (delivery included,) Dental, WIC, Mental Health, Pediatric, Family Planning and various Social Services for patients in the ...
East Texas Review via Google News 8 weeks ago
Gotland Social Services then found more problems -- claiming the Johanssons' home didn't have enough furniture, and that Christer was a drug addict with a mental illness, even though he passed a drug test and psychiatric examination.
A.M. Best via Google News 8 weeks ago
Abusers like Waterman think that women must be mindful of the inadequacies of men always on the point of resorting to violenceHow many times have you had a heated debate in a pub with a friend about religion, or the new Downton series, only to realise they were better informed than you and punch the[...]
8 weeks ago
How could the commission into abuse in the Catholic church have left the cases of castration out of its report?The revelation that a number of minors, who were abused in Dutch Roman Catholic institutions, were also forcibly castrated has shocked the Netherlands. It casts grave doubt upon the recent [...]
8 weeks ago
The father of two children who were taken into care by Norwegian social services, sparking a diplomatic row with New Delhi, told a national daily on Tuesday his wife had a "psychological problem" and that he is seeking legal separation.
Hindustan Times via Google News 8 weeks ago
By KBJR News 1 Duluth, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) - Lutheran Social Service—a financial Counseling Service with offices in Minnesota and Wisconsin—was awarded the Best Practices Honor at the annual Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards ceremony.
northlandsnewscenter.com via Google News 8 weeks ago
A computer questionnaire now helps determine who is fit for work and who is eligible for benefits. But it is causing misery, with thousands of unwell people locked in a chaotic system of appealsHow sick or disabled do you need to be to qualify for state support? Is it enough to be blind or do you al[...]
8 weeks ago
Marcus has spent the last three years battling a tumour, migraines and depression, but for much of that period has had no support from the benefit system. He has applied for employment and support allowance, but is one of thousands appealing against a decision that he is fit for workJohn Domokos
8 weeks ago
Live coverage as peers get their last chance to scrutinise the health bill, which has been in parliament for more than a year7.47pm: Government health bill survives by 209 to 267 votes. Last minute scare for ministers. 7.40pm: Surprise vote as Baroness Emerton gets a peers to file through the lobby [...]
8 weeks ago
Southall Black Sisters to launch women's campaign for a new offence of 'suicide aggravated by harassment or violence'A campaign to introduce a new offence of "suicide aggravated by harassment or violence" is to be launched next month.Calls for a new homicide law have been triggered by growing concer[...]
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1 week ago
Social Work: Credentials, Climate and Value Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:30 – 2:30 PM Eastern This webinar will provide a brief background of the hospice and palliative care macro-level climate in which social workers operate. Learn the significance of credentialing and its relevant terminology for[...]
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