Treading Water: The American Legacy of Treatment by Incarceration
The challenges of providing care and even for the basic human needs of mentally ill and cognitively disabled people are nothing new. Nor are the many ...
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Good Doc, Bad Doc - Point of Impact Crisis Intervention
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Respond as a Team or React Like a Mob: The importance of training
Everyday, hospital emergency departments (ED) receive patients and visitors experiencing extreme levels of emotional and/or physical trauma, whether it’s at a ...
Visiting Hours Are Over; Showing Respect - Showtime Mindset
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A Boy Named Green Bean: Creating Bully-free Environments in Schools
When he was four years old, the Rodríguezes’ son Manny was diagnosed with autism. Although that was difficult to hear, Mrs. Rodríguez felt relief when a ...
Gateway Behaviors Are Like Gateway Drugs
When I was in junior high school, we used to have to watch those corny “gateway drug” educational films. Do you remember those? They followed a similar plot: ...
Making Tough Decisions: How Training + Reporting Defends Your Actions
(Note: Names are fictional and do not identify the actual individuals in the article) Have you ever been corrected for a decision you made, but you knew in ...
Everything Is Okay Now—Confidence In Conflict Book Excerpt
Enjoy this excerpt from one of our published books. Chapter 2 Everything is Okay Now. Respond, Don't React “Violence can only be concealed by a lie,and the lie ...
How much danger am I in?—Confidence In Conflict Book Excerpt
Enjoy this excerpt from one of our published books. Chapter 1 How Much Danger Am I In? Be Alert and Decisive “Only human beings can look directly at something, ...
How Campuses Can Use Training + Expectations to Aid Suicide Prevention
College campuses are crowded places. From dorms and lecture halls to gymnasiums and dining halls, college students spend those formative years ...