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News Items – May 4, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Richard Brouillette is a member of NASW-CA: 2 Ways Empathy Determines the Type of Partner We Choose Psychology Today When we think of empathy , we usually think it’s about how we relate to other people’s feelings. In fact, empathy begins with how well we first learn to relate to our own feelings and emotional needs in childhood.

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News Items – May 4, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Richard Brouillette is a member of NASW-CA: 2 Ways Empathy Determines the Type of Partner We Choose Psychology Today When we think of empathy , we usually think it’s about how we relate to other people’s feelings. In fact, empathy begins with how well we first learn to relate to our own feelings and emotional needs in childhood.

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News Items – May 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Someone with sociopathic tendencies might, for instance, lack empathy for others, but still be a law-abiding, job-holding individual, she says. Louis Post-Dispatch Meanwhile Becky Beck, a licensed clinical social worker who works with the Columbia nonprofit DeafLEAD , has some reservations about using technology for mental health.

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News Items – May 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Someone with sociopathic tendencies might, for instance, lack empathy for others, but still be a law-abiding, job-holding individual, she says. Louis Post-Dispatch Meanwhile Becky Beck, a licensed clinical social worker who works with the Columbia nonprofit DeafLEAD , has some reservations about using technology for mental health.

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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

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I increasingly realized that there is no opportunity to influence legislators to change the system in the clinical setting. I wrote Breakdown to appeal for legislative reform because it’s nearly impossible to change the system from within the trenches of clinical work. Jon, who is suspicious of the FBI is at a homeless shelter.

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Members in the News – July 28, 2023

Social Workers Speak

We’re never going to build out an infrastructure if the going rate for therapy is $150 on the private market and it’s $70 on our Medicaid system.” Saloner, a well-known expert on raising resilient teens and young adults, has worked with children and families for over 30 years as a therapist, educator, speaker, event producer and coach.