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Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years

Mad in America

In 2012 the probate judge, after delaying for 18 months, ignored the Moore Family Trust document and placed not me but an outsider, Angelique Friend, as his conservator and trustee. After the conservator was appointed in 2012, she never allowed my father to leave the state of California, even for a visit. ” It never happened.

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Q&A: What Is Executive Function, and How Can Parents and Teachers Help Kids Focus?

Mad in America

I was also his case manager—which meant that because Liam was designated with special education needs, I kept track of all his academic progress, helped his teachers work effectively with him to meet the goals in his Individualized Education Program (IEP), and checked in with him on a regular basis.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

Mad in America

14 Many psychologists do not realise that they have a great advantage over psychiatrists, which is that they are educated with the aim of understanding the patients where they are and helping them with psychotherapy and other forms of support. In 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness.

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How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

Mad in America

Hill then asks and attempts to answer two questions that are highly relevant to contemporary psychiatry: “So, given this shift in thinking, why did Dr. Rush, one of the most brilliant and educated men of his day, hold on to this near-obsolete practice so unswervingly, even in the face of opposing evidence?

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

Illich notes: “Industrial parents, forced to procreate manpower for a world into which nobody fits who has not been crushed and molded by sixteen years of formal education, feel impotent to care personally for their offspring and, in despair, shower them with medicine.”

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How Pretend Play Helps Children Build Skills

Child Mind Intitute

Ages three to five are considered the high season of imaginative play, though pretend play continues into middle childhood (Singer & Singer, 2009; Smith & Lillard, 2012). Trends in Neuroscience and Education , 25 , 100165. Early Education and Development , 26 (7), 920-932. Early Childhood Education Journal , 44 , 61-68.

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Mental Wellbeing Impact Assessments: Ensuring government policy supports good mental health

Centre for Mental Health

It underpins healthy lifestyles, physical health, educational attainment, employment and productivity, relationships, community safety and cohesion, and quality of life. For instance, in 2012, the UK Home Office proposed an 18,600 minimum income requirement for sponsoring the visa of partners from non-European Economic Area countries.