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Elaine Aron, PhD: How to Deal with the Crisis when you are a Highly Sensitive Person

By Elaine Aron — 2020

In 1991 Dr. Elaine Aron identified the trait of high sensitivity. The trait occurs in 1 in 5 people and in over 100 other species. The foundation of the trait is DOES: HSPs are deep thinkers, they get easily overstimulated, have more empathy and notice subtleties more than others do. See more...

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Is Grief Mental Illness? With Psychiatric Changes, Maybe

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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DSM-V: Interview With Social Worker Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, FT

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.

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Emotional and Mental Health