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News Items – December 15, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Brayn Mares is government relations director for NASW-TX: Texas fights federal rule that would outlaw LGBTQ discrimination in state adoptions and foster care. Ferrigno founded Mindfully Aware with the help of fellow clinical social worker and Cranford mom, Jenn Carroll. The Texas Tribune. The Daily Times.

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Easing Mental Health Technologies into Practice: Considerations for a Smooth Transition

Society of Clinical Psychology

So, bridging this research to practice gap necessitates clinical-scientists playing a more active role in developing and testing technology that includes clinician buy-in and an awareness of and solutions for clinician wariness and skepticism. This five-stage top down model aims to: Optimize technology for adoption.

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News Items – December 22, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Bryan Mares is government relations director of NASW-TX: Texas Fights Anti-Discrimination Policy For Adoption. The lack of light,” Gail Flack , a licensed clinical social worker at Parkside Hospital. The lack of light,” Gail Flack , a licensed clinical social worker at Parkside Hospital explained. “We Local Profile. explained.

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News Items – November 18, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Michigan’s child welfare workers have served on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, doing what they can to build families’ resiliency, keep children in their homes, guide juvenile offenders on the right path, and connect children in greatest need to foster families and adoptive parents. There was pent-up demand for the experience.

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

Buss, BS; Robinson De Jesús-Romero, BA, MsC; Allison Peipert, BS; Isabella Starvaggi, BS Psychotherapy research in the 21st century Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the disability attributable to health conditions (Whiteford et al., 2014), positive psychotherapy (Lopez-Gomez et al., 76, Issue 1.

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It’s Time for a Change in How We Design, Develop, Test and Disseminate Empirically Supported Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

Collectively, these two influences require us to adopt a very different approach to distributing limited health care resources to the population in need. Folks in psychology may not fully appreciate that the evidence-based care movement actually started in general medicine, before it took hold in clinical psychology.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

It is well-established that the approaches to diagnosis differ substantially between clinical practice and research settings. In other words, how similar are the individuals diagnosed with a given disorder in clinical practice to those who are diagnosed in research settings? Although, there were a few bright spots (e.g.,

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