By Oriah Mountain Dreamer — 2012
This third and final installment in a series by Oriah Mountain Dreamer deals with reawakening to joy and a sense of gratitude returning to her life after a divorce.
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Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.
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I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.