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by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, Social Justice Solutions I cannot imagine any circumstance in which an infant age one or under would ever be prescribed an anti-anxiety medication, let alone one in the benzodiazepine family. I cannot even imagine …
By Georgianna Reilly, LMSW SJS Staff Writer Following a move by the Senate, the House of Representatives voted 398-1 on Wednesday to ban the use of the word lunatic from all federal legislation. According to this BBC article: “Senator Kent Conrad, …
The Cats of Mirikitani is shown yearly in a certain professors class at Stony Brook’s School of Social Welfare. I was fortunate enough to be introduced to it this semester. It is a documentary film about a homeless master artists who lives …
So, by now many have heard the American Psychological Association has finished it’s current revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM. The DSM, in the US, is the standard by which conditions are coded, and therefor recognized, and approved as reimbursable. Granted, you cannot make …
By: Courtney Kidd, LMSW SJS Staff Writer Over 90 individuals have killed themselves by fire in Tibet in an alarming recent trend thought to be a political statement. Self-immolation has become a form of protest against Chinese/Tibetan politics which is credited …
By Georgianna Reilly, LMSW SJS Staff Writer This article by the Greater Good Science Center of the University of California at Berkeley seems like a page right out of a well written social work training guide and strives to answer the …
Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer in Montreal, Canada Another amazing book that opened my eyes to an issue that for the most part does not affect Canadians or other westernized countries to the point it does in Third …
By: Courtney Kidd, LMSW SJS Staff Writer PTSD is a debilitating disorder occurring as a reaction to a highly stressful event or prolonged exposure to stress. We see it more frequently than we’d like in our returning military service members. …
By: Courtney Kidd, LMSW SJS Staff Writer Ah the 2012 holiday season. A time to laugh, remember our loved ones, exchange some gifts. Oh, and let’s not forget the upcoming apocalypse. The Mayan calendar rumor has been circling around for …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer in Montreal, Canada So, if you are like me-you have not written up an advance care directive/mandate for healthcare wishes should one become incapacitated, because…..well….we are young yet. But you know what, I should …
