May 4, 2008
Mental Health, Stress, Women's Interest
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Helping Professionals Especially Women, Must Learn to Take Care of Themselves.
This is much easier to say then do! Although there are more men in the helping professions today, in nursing and social work the vast majority are still women.
Womens’ Sense of self is Often One of Caretaker and Nurturer, and Society Enforces This View.
Nurturing and care taking have long been associated with women in general, and nurses and social workers in particular. Empathy is a mainstay of the helping professions, particularly the “women’s professions” such as nursing and social work. Nurturance has historically been intertwined with, and seen as a major function of nursing. Nursing has been called the “practice of professional nurturing”.
May 2, 2008
Mental Health, Women's Interest
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Vincent Van Gogh, believed to have Bipolar I Disorder
Questions by Readers.
Dear Dr Duffy,
I am confused about my daughters illness. She is in a residential treatment facility and we have had a terrible time trying to control her. She has been given a number of different diagnoses including Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder. My question is, is Bipolar and Schizophrenia the same. She seem to have many symptoms that could be either. How do the doctors know the difference between these illnesses? She is on many medications and although she is calmer I am still not able to control her at home. I don’t know what to do.
April 28, 2008
Mental Health, Women's Interest
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Michael White formalized and introduced the idea of using storytelling as healing in psychotherapy. He introduced the idea of Narrative Therapy to many professionals who needed to be reminded of the power of stories and the importance of helping patients tell their stories in a therapeutic way. Of course people have also been telling their stories to therapists for a long time. The stories of their lives, of their pain and joys and of their healing.
