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What to expect when seeing a clinical psychologist with your child

Lawson Psychology

What to expect when seeing a clinical psychologist with your child Attending an appointment with a clinical psychologist can be a time of mixed feelings. This appointment (50 minutes) will allow your family and your clinical psychologist time to get to know each other and provide a thorough assessment.

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Can Eating Disorders Change?

MQ Mental Health

But a person diagnosed with anorexia might develop binge eating disorder, or other types of eating disorders, as this personal story backed by research can attest. This Eating Disorder Awareness Week we consider whether eating disorders can change throughout a person’s life. But it’s certainly got ‘different’.

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Can Eating Disorders Change?

MQ Mental Health

But a person diagnosed with anorexia might develop binge eating disorder, or other types of eating disorders, as this personal story backed by research can attest. This Eating Disorder Awareness Week we consider whether eating disorders can change throughout a person’s life. But it’s certainly got ‘different’.

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Coping through Christmas with an eating disorder

Lawson Psychology

Coping through Christmas with an eating disorder Christmas can be a very difficult and challenging time for people with eating disorders or difficult relationships with food. Move on notice: Parents, loved ones of people with eating disorders, please learn to move conversations on if there are too many intrusive inquiries.

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Celebrating support workers

Social Care

I looked online and found a health care support worker vacancy at Aspen Clinic in Mexborough. When I was growing up, a member of my family suffered very bad anxiety, depression and post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). On my first day at Aspen Clinic, I was nervous, but I still found the courage to step through the doors at 8am.

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Supporting yourself or a loved one through Christmas when there is an eating disorder in the midst

Lawson Psychology

Supporting yourself or a loved one through Christmas when there is an eating disorder in the midst Christmas can be a very difficult and challenging time for people with eating disorders or difficult relationships with food. The guilt is just the eating disorder having a tantrum. Young people! You have a role here too.

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

Social Work Blog

There are clinical, military, hospital, school social work, and other options. Large hospital systems typically employ LMSW social workers because they have demonstrated clinical acumen and the ability to navigate practice scenarios. So why should students enter the realm of clinical social work in addiction?