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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Adults make most of the decisions about a child’s life from where they live, what they eat and when, where they go to school, what clothes they have and much more. An understanding of mental health language is needed so that children and young people as well as parents, schools and services can support the mental well-being of youngsters.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Adults make most of the decisions about a child’s life from where they live, what they eat and when, where they go to school, what clothes they have and much more. An understanding of mental health language is needed so that children and young people as well as parents, schools and services can support the mental well-being of youngsters.

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Training therapists in evidence-based mental health interventions: What works and what holds promise for the future?

Society of Clinical Psychology

During that time, she had been having several panic attacks per day and met criteria for multiple anxiety disorders. She had dropped out of school, had increasing depression symptoms, and had been hospitalized several times for suicidality. His treatment for anxiety in youth has been translated into a dozen languages.

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NASW Member Voices: Considering a career in addiction social work? Here is what you should know

Social Work Blog

Do my skills align with the amount of knowledge I gained in school? There are clinical, military, hospital, school social work, and other options. This simply means that an individual can marry various systems, schools of thoughts, and theories, and apply them to real-life scenarios. Will I be able to cut it?

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Inequality of Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

A report by the UN Human Rights office showed people with mental health conditions and those with psychosocial disabilities experience disproportionately higher rates of poor physical health; and have a reduced life expectancy – a 20-years fewer for men and 15 years for women - compared with others in the population.

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A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19

Social Work Synergy

We are proud to have her as a member of our faculty at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. They go about their work in the backgrounds of organizations that are meant to do other things: in hospitals that are meant to save lives, in schools that are meant to educate children. Follow Melanie on Twitter at @melaniesage.

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Let’s Talk About Sleep

Millennial Social Worker

Poor sleep or excessive sleep is also one of the common symptoms of depression and anxiety. To avoid experiencing health problems and other psychosocial impacts, sleep should be prioritized. CDC Healthy Schools. Poor sleep leads to cognitive impairment and may cause or contribute to many depressive disorders. Sleep and Health.