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Members in the Media – June 1, 2023

Social Workers Speak

You can be a mental health advocate The Uptake Many therapists are involved in activism and advocacy. Viola Vaughan-Eden is a member of NASW-VA: VCU School of Social Work alum Viola Vaughan-Eden honored by Capitol Hill advocacy institute Virginia Commonwealth University Viola Vaughan-Eden , a Ph.D.

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Members in the News – July 7, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Ohio city rewrites abortion ban, advocacy groups end lawsuit The Hamilton Spectator The lawsuit by the National Association of Social Workers and the Abortion Fund of Ohio argued that the law, passed in May 2021 , represented an “extraordinarily broad” infringement on the constitutional rights of due process and free speech.

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Members in the Media – June 1, 2023

Social Workers Speak

You can be a mental health advocate The Uptake Many therapists are involved in activism and advocacy. Viola Vaughan-Eden is a member of NASW-VA: VCU School of Social Work alum Viola Vaughan-Eden honored by Capitol Hill advocacy institute Virginia Commonwealth University Viola Vaughan-Eden , a Ph.D.

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From Living with OCD to Working with it

Beautiful Voyager

The author Natalia Aniela Aíza My journey as an OCD therapist (and what I have yet to learn). I distinctly remember that queasy feeling of being both powerful and powerless – what I now understand to be the dichotomy of having a control disorder that is out of control. Compulsions are some of my earliest childhood memories.

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MEMBER VOICES: Social Workers Have Ethical Responsibility to Fight Bans on Gender-Affirming Care

Social Work Blog

I do not identify as transgender, although I am a woman who transitioned, with gender-affirming surgery in 1996, ending years of a chronic eating disorder and suicidality after a gay psychiatrist had the wisdom to help me begin transitioning during a hospitalization following an attempted suicide.

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NASW Member Voices: Social Workers Have Ethical Responsibility to Fight Bans on Gender-Affirming Care

Social Work Blog

I do not identify as transgender, although I am a woman who transitioned, with gender-affirming surgery in 1996, ending years of a chronic eating disorder and suicidality after a gay psychiatrist had the wisdom to help me begin transitioning during a hospitalization following an attempted suicide. This blog was prepared by Robin M.

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Comparing psychotherapies for gay and bisexual men’s mental health

Society of Clinical Psychology

gay, bisexual) men’s health, finding that: Sexual minority men experience higher rates of depression, anxiety, substance use disorders , and HIV acquisition than heterosexual men. Sexual minority men also demonstrate unique strengths and resiliencies , like social and sexual creativity, community-building, and advocacy.