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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. In this case, she wrote, From the point of court involvement to the final hearing, the respondent-mother made immense progress toward the goals laid out by [the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services] in her agency treatment plan.

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How To Take a Trauma-Informed Approach to Birth Trauma

Relias

A trauma-informed approach to birth trauma To help your clients cope with and overcome the effects of birth trauma, it’s important that your organization adopt a trauma-informed approach to care. It can include treatment planning and goal setting, as well as allowing clients to take part in shaping policy and programs at your organization.

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How to Quit Buying Scratch-Off Tickets

Gateway Foundation

Adopt Healthy Habits Replacing gambling with healthy habits can help improve your emotional state and alleviate boredom that may contribute to your urge to purchase lottery tickets. Our specialists will help you identify the best treatment program for your addiction, teach you coping mechanisms and treat underlying conditions.

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7 Types of Gamblers

Gateway Foundation

Conservative gamblers adopt a more cautious approach to gambling, prioritizing minimizing losses over seeking big wins. With personalized treatment plans, evidence-based therapies and a compassionate approach, we can help you regain control of your life.

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How do we know when posttraumatic stress disorder is getting better?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Using the findings from the review, we have proposed a set of definitions we think represents a sound way forward and hope might be adopted in order to standardize what it means for someone to get better: Construct. Treatment response. All of these approaches have their strengths and weaknesses. Definition. Discussion Questions.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Consistent with previous work highlighting the importance of adopting a strengths-based framework for minority mental health (e.g., 2012), the focus on this blog post is to emphasize the benefits and practice of assessing and integrating cultural strengths into the treatment process for youth and their families. Gaylord-Harden et al.,

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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care for Juvenile Offenders

Relias

By adopting a trauma-informed perspective, juvenile justice systems and organizations can address immediate legal concerns but also foster healing, resilience, and positive transformation for young people engaged in the juvenile justice system. thyroid disorder or neurological problems) Review of personal history (e.g.,