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‘I believe in the value of social work’: launch editor looks back as Community Care turns 50

Community Care

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. On 3 April 1974, the first ever issue of Community Care was published.

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Harnessing cultural identity as a protective factor in minority mental health: Applications to children and families

Society of Clinical Psychology

Often times the field of clinical psychology assumes a “deficit-based” approach to minority mental health. Consistent with previous work highlighting the importance of adopting a strengths-based framework for minority mental health (e.g., 2014) and/or interviews (e.g., American Psychiatric Association. References Cited.

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Costume, Cosplay and Dressing Up: Fashion and Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

So, with Juliette Burton's personal story backed up by research, let’s strip away the layers of misconceptions and adorn ourselves in the facts behind the various facades we can all adopt. Clothing and Psychology The power of costume is apparent in all of our lives. Ever since I was a little girl, I've always loved dressing up.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

Douglas Samuel from Purdue University discusses a recently published article in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. . I first conducted a systematic review of clinicians’ diagnoses based on unstructured interviews and learned that across 27 studies, the median dimensional agreement with research diagnoses (e.g., 23 (Samuel, 2015).

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

for example, 20% of individuals recall meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) at some point in their lives (Hasin et al., 2018), and psychological makeup. References American Psychiatric Association. Barkham, M.,

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. When the interviewers go to Maya's home. I quote here from the Preface to the 2nd edition.) a confused one'.

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Why Assess?

The Critical Blog

Our interviews also require more than just an ear for words: hearing gaps, hearing what someone’s not saying, and picking up what goes unspoken in a facial expression, or even (if someone’s face is covered, or paralysed by a stroke, for example) in body language alone. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Oxford: Berg.