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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

NASW recognizes June as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. Social workers are the largest group of mental health providers in the United States and treatment of PTSD is one of their specialty areas. Treating PTSD and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure. June 3, 2022.

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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? However, the concepts of recovery and mental health have been changing over time (Bohlmeijer & Westerhof, 2021).

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(CY) 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Key Provisions Impacting Clinical Social Workers

Social Work Blog

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) issued on July 16 includes a variety of provisions that are relevant to clinical social workers (CSWs) who are participating providers in Medicare. Include Behavioral Health Services in Audio-Only. Telehealth.

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Addressing Access in Ethnoracially Diverse Populations: Lessons from a University-Based Community Mental Health Center

Society of Clinical Psychology

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the George Floyd Uprising, and the Stop Asian Hate movement, ethnically and racially marginalized individuals in the United States need access to quality mental health care now more than ever. Department of Health and Human Services, 2019). 2014; Walker et al.,

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Improving the clinical utility of mental disorder classifications

Society of Clinical Psychology

Classifications of mental disorders are a necessary evil. Without a comprehensive, consensual list of the kinds of problems human beings experience, the field of mental health would be continually swamped by the task of describing the nature of each person’s problem. Communication between professionals would break down.

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A Framework to Test Emotion Regulation in the Lab and the Clinic

Society of Clinical Psychology

When distinguishing adaptive from maladaptive strategies, researchers have found stronger evidence that larger repertoires of adaptive strategies are related to better mental health and larger repertoires of maladaptive strategies are related to worse mental health (McMahon & Naragon-Gainey, 2019; Southward & Cheavens, 2020a).

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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

“Jenna” was an adolescent who presented for treatment at a specialty clinic after having been in therapy for several years. During that time, she had been having several panic attacks per day and met criteria for multiple anxiety disorders. Unfortunately, people like Jenna are not as uncommon as we would hope.