Social Work Blog

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and rise in racial injustices signaled the need to engage students in macro-level interventions to maximize their contributions to their schools, communities, and society. Owens, LCSW , lecturer of social work, Jane Adams College of Social Work, University of Illinois Chicago.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Promoting mechanisms-focused science to transform how clinical scientists address the substantial effect of behaviors on a wide range of health and disease outcomes is a central goal for the NIH Science of Behavior Change Common Fund (Nielsen et al., The interventions additionally needed to be brief: six sessions or less.

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Doin' The Work

MAY 29, 2023

The University of Houston has a phenomenal social work program that offers face-to-face master's and doctorate degrees, as well as an online and hybrid MSW. Dawn Belkin Martinez, who is the Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion and a Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Social Work. We hope you will join us!

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

MQ is encouraging a cross-generational conversation about improving mental health interventions. To counteract this, 31.8% of MQ’s grant portfolio has had a focus on improving the mental health of children and young people. Young people are the reason MQ exists as a charity.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

MQ is encouraging a cross-generational conversation about improving mental health interventions. To counteract this, 31.8% of MQ’s grant portfolio has had a focus on improving the mental health of children and young people. Young people are the reason MQ exists as a charity.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Specifically, they state that, “as society continues to become more and more culturally diverse, mental health providers must continually engage in ongoing self-assessment related to knowledge, skills and abilities to provide culturally responsive care” 2. Such interventions seeking to thwart systemic inequities (e.g., Background.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Katie Eklund discusses the use of universal screening scores to predict distal academic and behavioral outcomes among school-aged youth. academic skill curriculum-based measurement scores) to increase the likelihood of universal screener adoption. Lane, Carter, Pierson, & Glaeser, 2006).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 9, 2023

Thus, providing effective preventive care and clinical interventions to individuals who are struggling with PTSD symptoms is imperative. In this manuscript, we will discuss evidence that supports addressing positive memories in PTSD interventions, as well as future directions for this line of work. depression; Jacobson et al.,

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

MQ is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexandra Burton from University College London has been awarded an MQ Fellowship. How long have you been at your current university/institution ? I started working at University College London in the Division of Psychiatry in 2011 and moved to my current department in April 2020.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 7, 2021

Often times the field of clinical psychology assumes a “deficit-based” approach to minority mental health. cultural socialization, or emphasizing cultural pride and heritage) have been identified as important treatment targets in interventions that were specifically designed with and for African American families (e.g., Anderson et al.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 14, 2023

Several interventions for SITB include strategies to improve cognitive flexibility (e.g., Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Chung (M.Sc) is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Western University. Hons) completed his Psychology undergraduate degree at the University of Guelph. Bryan, 2019; Kiosses et al.,

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Social Workers Speak

JUNE 29, 2023

Kanika Henry is a member of NASW-AZ: ASU alum helps guide those experiencing traumatic loss Arizona State University Arizona State University alum Kanika Henry knows them all. You may be experiencing anxiety and it’s completely normal, according to License Clinical Social Worker Lori Osachy. Here’s what experts recommend.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The rationale for the inclusion of mindfulness to enhance the impact of traditional behavioral family interventions is that it could increase psychological flexibility and reduce the influence of negative thoughts and feelings a parent may have about a child’s behavior (Brown, Whittingham, Boyd, McKinlay, & Sofronoff, 2014). Compassion.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2023

Dale , a dual licensed clinical psychologist (MA/FL) and Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. in Clinical Psychology at Boston University in 2014. Turner Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Diversity Research in Clinical Psychology, the 2019 Melba J.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 24, 2021

Treatment use and engagement has been historically low among people of color due to factors like lack of availability of, and accessibility to quality and affordable care, stigma about mental illness, as well as experiences of racism and discrimination in therapy settings.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We designed a 12-week positive psychological intervention—ENHANCE—focused explicitly on increasing happiness rather than treating mental illness. In a paper published in the journal Psychological Science , we found that our positive psychological intervention had beneficial effects on self-reported physical health (Kushlev et al.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 10, 2020

Augmentation can work in lots of different ways, and might mean faster or greater symptom improvement relative to standard treatment alone, better engagement or retention with standard treatment, or improved skills or aspects of wellbeing that the standard treatment does not target, such as sleep or social rehabilitation.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 5, 2020

In these patients, the frequency (‘I have panic attacks every hour’), intensity (‘my pain is always 10 on the 0-10 numerical pain rating scale’), and/or co-occurrence (‘I have panic attacks, experience pain, hear voices, and suffer from dyslexia’) of symptoms seem to be out of the clinically plausible range. compensation money).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 4, 2018

This SCP blog piece by Dr. Miya Barnett discusses a recent article published in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology on the role of lay health workers in addressing disparities in access to evidence-based practices. Increasing evidence suggests that lay health worker-delivered care can lead to improved clinical outcomes.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Dr Ty Lostutter, a clinical psychologist at the University of Washington Medical Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance reports that while everyone experiences anxiety, people experience differing degrees of severity. BUT, there are things you should never say to someone with anxiety. So, what is anxiety?

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 4, 2020

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), deemed a “well-established” intervention for the treatment of child and adolescent anxiety (Hollon & Beck, 2013), typically addresses anxiety using a two-pronged approach. 2015), although exposure use in community clinics remains low (Whiteside, Deacon, Benito, & Stewart, 2016).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 11, 2018

As an immigrant myself to the United States, I have thought deeply and keenly about the formidable differences among diverse groups in perceptions of mental health, access to mental health services, and palatability of current mental health interventions. A full copy of the article can be found HERE. in preparation). 2018; IASC, 2007).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 25, 2021

As brief examples of how we hypothesized COVID-19 to uniquely influence these processes, we provide a conceptual framework to improve clinical practice to offset the likely long-term effects of the pandemic. What clinical considerations should be made when working with clients in the post COVID-19 pandemic era? Discussion Questions.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

She is a professor emerita at the University of Chicago, where she was a longtime faculty member in the Department of Education and Social Policy. Joe Kort is an openly gay clinical social worker who works with individuals, couples, and families on topics related to sexuality and gender.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 31, 2017

by Kate MacDuffie and Tim Strauman about their newly published article in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Biological systems—from the level of molecules all the way up to ecosystems—almost universally have some mechanism for adaptation or reaction to changes in the environment (Bateson et al., Reference Article.

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Social Workers Speak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

NASW Foundation Partners with University of Texas-Austin on COVID-19 Vaccination Grant. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Foundation and the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work have been awarded a $3.3 Social Work Helper.

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Clinical Philosophy

APRIL 13, 2022

But really they'd not be of use to anyone else, including the patient, since what they're designed for, their whole purpose , is, as I said, to function as aide-memoires for me - and so they're replete with the requisite shorthand and clinical terminology to effectively support that end.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Within clinical psychology, in particular, there has been a preoccupation on developing efficacious interventions, with almost no historical focus on the methods or mechanisms for how to implement treatments and promote their uptake (Karlin, in press).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 15, 2017

But are these kinds of things truly characteristic of people who will go on to engage in suicidal thoughts and behaviors? For clinical practice, this means that the risk factor lists put out by various government agencies and mental health foundations are rationally-derived rather than empirically-based. Author Bio. Franklin, Ph.D.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 15, 2017

First, there is increasing evidence for the success of technology-enhanced interventions (Gros et al., Developers should engage clinicians from diverse educational backgrounds, service settings, and areas of expertise early in the development process. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Broadly disseminate information.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And, of course, we’ll discuss the diverse career paths available in these fields, from clinical practice to research and beyond. In some cases, such as with clinical psychologists, they may share a common goal of helping individuals and families. Let’s begin this exciting adventure together!

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 2, 2016

Students want to feel included and anticipate positive social reinforcement for engaging in behaviors that they believe are representative of their peers (conformity). Personalized normative feedback is an intervention approach that has been relatively successful (Carey et al., This approach typically targets heavy drinking students.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While RCTs are very useful, their findings are limited in the real-world if the interventions tested are not available to consumers. We recruited participants from the public, rather than clinical sources, as we wanted to investigate impacts in a naturalistic community sample.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Some of these articles are free to access.

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 22, 2021

Dan Scholz, LCSW, Clinical Director at LifeLine Utah joined us in studio as part of our You Are Not Alone partnership. Professional Responsibilities: I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with an expertise in trauma therapy, specifically for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. … Galveston County Daily News.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 4, 2016

About two decades ago, psychologists who develop and study psychotherapy interventions began to recognize that publications on the efficacy of new psychotherapies were not sufficient to change practice. Are they able to make it to session weekly, and willing or able to engage in the interventions that comprise the EBPT?

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Social Work Haven

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What influence has Tuskegee study had on the conduct of clinical trials? The need for an increase in trust with the African American community is quintessential in the conduct of clinical trials. Majority of the unfortunate subjects of this program who got infected never received medical intervention. Refere nces: Gaynes, R.

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