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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

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Other people have their own ideas about this; there is a document published by a group of authors, including Alberto Vásquez and Peter Stastny, in which they address crisis support, and I think they have a somewhat more conservative approach than me.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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The Situational Approach Workplace mental health policies and practice have had a huge impact on industry and the workplace, including an enormous cost burdenboth human and economic.

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Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a “Gold Mine”

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As many lawsuits have documented, child welfare agencies across the country rely on locked psychiatric facilities, many of which use punitive disciplinary tactics, to house difficult-to-place kids. The problem transcends Alaska or UHS. These placements disproportionately affect children of color.