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The Significance of Semiotics in Social Work

Mad in America

However, despite its vast potential, semiotics has yet to be widely incorporated into social work practice and education. These symbols serve as a form of self-expression and a shield against the social pressures of the school environment. However, this journey has its challenges.

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I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House

Mad in America

This is also the same conference where I listened to a workshop presenter go on at length about the “suicide tumor,” but that’s a story for another time.) I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I You don’t send people for that do you?

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America

As a writer, educator, and scholar, Jazmine works at the intersection of mad studies, critical psychology, and neuroscience. Even at 17, I had enough awareness to recognize that something was seriously wrong with that experience, that there was something fundamentally flawed in the way we treat people.

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Back-to-School Support & Teen Mental Health Treatment: Practical Tips for Parents

Clear Behavioral Health

Your teens can be supported with skills and treatment to manage school-related stressors and move forward with their education. This is all happening while their brains, and their senses of self, are still developing. Teens in treatment report intense awareness and concern about the U.S.

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The Art of Healing Trauma Coloring Book-Look Inside the Book

The Art of Healing Trauma

Each of the first 13 illustrations in this adult coloring book is accompanied by a mindfulness activity or somatic therapy exercise that teaches you how to ground into your body and self-regulate your own nervous system. These body awareness activities are not just useful for trauma recovery; they can also help to reduce stress and anxiety.

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A General Semantics Perspective on Language and Reality: Implications for Therapy

National Association for the Advancement of Psycho

Identity, absolute sameness in all respects, is assumed as an empirical principle while partial identity is seen as self-contradictory. This will result, I think, in therapists expanding the limits of their knowledge using their self-reflexive and meta-communicative processes. As premises, these axioms immediately distort perception.

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Difference Between HOCD and Denial

Now Psych

HOCD can deeply impact an person’s mental health, self-esteem, and relationships, making it essential to recognize possible symptoms and seek appropriate support and treatment from a licensed mental health professional, psychiatrist or psychologist.