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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms

University of Connecticut

Ruth Pearlman, LCSW, LICSW, M.ED For many people with SPD, their constant need to re-regulate their senses to adapt to the stimuli around them, creates symptoms of distractibility, irritability, anxiety, and depression. Imagine trying to treat a client with ASD or PTSD and not teaching the client about their sensory system reactions?

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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms and How that Harms Our Clients

University of Connecticut

Ruth Pearlman, LCSW, LICSW, M.ED. For many people with SPD, their constant need to re-regulate their senses to adapt to the stimuli around them, creates symptoms of distractibility, irritability, anxiety, and depression. Imagine trying to treat a client with ASD or PTSD and not teaching the client about their sensory system reactions?

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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms and How that Harms All of Our Clients

University of Connecticut

Ruth Pearlman, LCSW, LICSW, M.ED. For many people with SPD, their constant need to re-regulate their senses to adapt to the stimuli around them, creates symptoms of distractibility, irritability, anxiety, and depression. Imagine trying to treat a client with ASD or PTSD and not teaching the client about their sensory system reactions?

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

Relias

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 – October 27, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Emily Lynch is a member of NASW-CT: What to Do About Work Anxiety: A Therapist’s Top 3 Tips. Quiet quitting, worker burnout, the infamous “grind”: Work anxiety is as high as it’s ever been for Americans. For Santiago, that’s being with his friends at school, because with no home, his dad had to leave town to work.

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Scholarship Recipients 2022

University of Connecticut

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the School of Social Work is able to offer a number of scholarship opportunities to our BSW, MSW, and Ph.D. Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. students each academic year.

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Members in the News – August 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Robin Bilazarian is a member of NASW-NJ: It Turns Out, Washing Your Face Can Benefit Your Brain Mind Body Green As licensed clinical social worker and master EFT trainer Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCEP , previously told mbg , “When we are agitated or stressed out, everything about us is robbing blood to go to major muscles.”

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