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A child welfare case leads to a stunning dissent from Michigan’s Chief Justice

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

courts adopted a rule requiring balance of harms, entries into foster care decreased sharply. She found housing, got a job, took classes, left a toxic relationship, found a therapist, and began taking her medication. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C. Raising a child is difficult, even when there is no crisis.

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Ultimate Guide on How to Use Social Work Ecomaps

Social Work Haven

How can you use the ecomap for intervention? With a social work ecomap activity, social workers can help foster positive working relationships and explore effective intervention strategies to facilitate change. This helps social workers determine the best intervention strategies for a child and their family.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

First, there is increasing evidence for the success of technology-enhanced interventions (Gros et al., This means that everyone from researchers to policy-makers to therapists and clients need to do their homework. This five-stage top down model aims to: Optimize technology for adoption. Improve Regulations and Guidelines.

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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. Isabel Logan is a member of NASW-CT: Winning Over Skeptics: More Police Departments Enlist Social Workers For Crisis Intervention. Their family, their community, and the larger political and social systems.”. Local Profile.

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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

Thus, most population health contexts are also brief intervention contexts. Collectively, these two influences require us to adopt a very different approach to distributing limited health care resources to the population in need. This approach is generally referred to as “population-based healthcare”.

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

Cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBTs) are effective treatments for depression and other forms of internalizing distress and are considered the gold standard of psychological interventions (Lorenzo-Luaces, 2018). Symptoms of depression have been widely studied as moderators of outcomes of CBTs vs. other interventions. CBT) than others.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

This effort to develop and test interventions that offer demonstrable improvement in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) has yielded a lengthy list of Empirically Supported Treatments that can inform an EBP ( [link] ). clients, therapists, informants) and methods (e.g.,

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