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What Is Clinical Depression, And What Does It Look Like?

My Brains Not Broken

As someone who has lived with clinical depression for almost a decade, I’ve learned a lot about what depression is, what it means to me, and how it looks in my day-to-day life. So, what is clinical depression, and what does it look like in a person’s life? Clinical depression isn’t necessarily caused by some life event.

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After Retirement from Clinical Practice, Chapter President Still Eager to Serve

Social Work Blog

That led me down a clinical path for training so I could be even a better listener in understating and helping people,” says Sobelson, president of the NASW New Hampshire Chapter. Pace Carol Sobelson, MS, said she was inspired to enter social work because, “I recognized I was a good listener.”

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Mental wellbeing can, and should, be assessed in clinical samples

Society of Clinical Psychology

Before you continue reading this blog, take a moment and reflect for one moment: what do you, as a clinical psychologist, use as a criterion for recovery or therapy success? What would it mean for clinical psychology if we maintained an intentional focus on both treating mental illness and promoting mental wellbeing?

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Member Voices: My Journey to Clinical Social Work

Social Work Blog

One might wonder, why and how I shifted from community care-based healing work to becoming a Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist. Clinical Social Worker Violeta A. This was community care that in the Field, we might call an “intervention” at the meso level. But for many of us, this was culture.

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Get Connected: Using Social Media for Social Work Success

Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media.

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Photography Hobby Gives Clinical Social Worker Purpose and Hope

Social Work Blog

He started taking photos and stuck with it because, “I was good at it and it gave me something to do,” said LaPensee, MSW, ACSW, LICSW, LCSW, a clinical social worker in private practice in Tampa, Fla. “I I was a young man working retail and felt I had no goal or purpose.” I was struck with a sense of creativity and fulfillment.”

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LCSW Exam Prep: Clinical Documentation

Therapist Development Center

This month’s ASWB LMSW and LCSW topic is one that is important well beyond the exam: Clinical Documentation. Even our code of ethics speaks to the importance of clinical documentation. The post LCSW Exam Prep: Clinical Documentation appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.

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