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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities. We created thought records, where she documented specific situations that triggered distress, identified the automatic negative thoughts, and evaluated the evidence for and against those thoughts.

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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. Experience and knowledge may have to come from different streams.

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Beyond Paternalism or Abandonment in Mental Health Care: An Interview with Neil Gong

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Broadly, it was driven by well-documented abuse and neglect in asylums, spiraling hospital costs, and an overly optimistic faith in new medications. There was great optimism about closing down asylums, which in the 1950s housed more than half a million people in the United States. The history of deinstitutionalization is complex.