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DfE proposes law change to improve adults’ access to adoption therapy

Community Care

The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption support agencies.

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2022 International Women’s Day

MQ Mental Health

In 2016 Ethel was honored by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni with the Presidential National Independence Medal of Honor for her work with culturally sensitive group support psychotherapy. Now learnings from Ethels study are being adopted by other countries across Africa.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

We propose a model that aims to facilitate this process by addressing clinicians’ and adopting organizations’ primary concerns in a way that places shared responsibility on policy-makers, developers, researchers, organizations, and clinicians to work in tandem. This five-stage top down model aims to: Optimize technology for adoption.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although psychotherapy has been in existence for over a century, the field has struggled to build upon research findings with consistent, accumulating evidence. What can the field of clinical psychology do to prevent past findings on psychotherapy from disappearing in the literature? Reference Article. Goldstein, B. Based Treatment.

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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. “Text to say ‘I Love you’ when the spirit moves you, even if it is a fleeting moment,” says Toni Teixeira, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker with a private psychotherapy practice. Local Profile.

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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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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.