Healthcare professionals enter the field with a desire to help others, but many find themselves facing a reality far removed from this noble intention. In reality, they often become targets of verbal abuse, threats, and physical violence from the very people they're trying to help. While the physical dangers of workplace violence have started to receive significant attention, the psychological...
“Improve Your Institution's Responses to Mental Health Crises ” - Episode 21
Host: Brine Hamilton, CHPA
Guests: Joel Lashley and Gary Klugiewicz
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For those of us that work in social services, education, and healthcare, trauma informed care is a concept that is familiar. Other terms used to describe this concept are trauma responsive care and trauma sensitive schools. All these terms revolve around one important word- Safety! Safety is very evident within literature, workshops, conferences and conversations about trauma informed care.
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 well-meaning attempts to address this difficult and multifaceted problem. Still, in the present age of staggering advances in technology, medicine, physics, and a renewed exploration of space, we are struggling for answers about how best to manage...
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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 diagnostician finally put a label on what appeared to be causing some Manny’s puzzling behaviors. One of those behaviors was perseveration, something Manny’s therapist described as “insistence on sameness.”
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After six hours of unloading her stuff and setting up her new dorm room, Amanda was exhausted. She was super excited that she finally had her own desk, her own bed, and her own space. She looked over at her laptop and iPod and noticed that her music download was finally complete. As she...
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Enjoy this excerpt from one of our published books.
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie,and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The security team arrived on the unit in just a few minutes, but the floor was already quiet. The call from dispatch said a nurse was being actively assaulted, so everyone...
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