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Member Voices: Be Wary of Mental Health ‘Experts’ on Social Media

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Monteiro, LCSW The past two years were filled with fear and uncertainty, exacerbating a mental health crisis with an increase in anxiety, depression, suicide rates, and substance abuse. I have a master’s degree in Social Work and am a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW). By Carla B.

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Members in the News – June 29, 2023

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Yahoo Brent Metcalf , a licensed clinical social worker specializing in alcohol and drug addiction counseling , specifies that parents should talk to their children about substance abuse no later than age 9, because that’s the age some kids are introduced to alcohol and drugs. Anxiety is in a lot of ways a healthy emotion.

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News Items – July 29, 2022

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Clinicians of Color was founded by Lisa Savage, LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) , and Kim L. Half of all men whose partners have postpartum depression are depressed themselves,” said Will Courtenay , Ph.D., It’s obvious when our desks are messy,” said Dr. Beth Plachetka, LCSW, EdD and owner of Safe Harbor Counseling.

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The Impact of Collective Trauma and How Behavioral Health Organizations Can Help

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Leia Salzman, PhD, LCSW, from the Tulane University School of Social Work, describes collective trauma as “an event, or series of events that shatters the experience of safety for a group, or groups, of people.” Collective trauma occurs when this type of event happens to an entire community.

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News Items – February 2, 2023

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Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, the founder and executive director of GayTherapyLA , devoted a blog post to gay gym crushes in 2021. The support they offer ranges from setting up counseling and therapy to housing, job and transportation support. But working-class Black people don’t have time for that; we must go to work and keep progressing.

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News Items – May 5, 2022

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“In the case of a heterosexual relationship, one person is using their body and experiencing the physical stress that comes with infertility and infertility treatments, while the other person may be watching their partner suffer or feeling helpless as to how to make things better,” says infertility counselor Rena Gower, LCSW. Aspirus Health.

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News Items – January 20, 2022

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Yurilka Hernandez is a member: Yurilka Hernandez, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker with Psychotherapy Today. She truly cares about each client’s wellbeing and guarantees top-of-the-line counseling and psychotherapy services catered to their needs. Therapy is such a personal journey. “It’s unending, seemingly so.”