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Parental Military Deployment and Children: What Have We Learned from More than a Decade of War?

Society of Clinical Psychology

A common saying in the military is that when one person joins the whole family serves. For many military families, geographic relocations, disrupted family routines, financial hardships, and fear of losing a loved one became a way of life. Alfano & Simon Lau, Department of Psychology, University of Houston. 2008; Chandra et al.,

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background. Time Moves Different in Here: Clinical Implications for Working with Populations of Color, Complex Trauma and Dissociation in the Age of COVID 19 . June 3, 2022.

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“A Liminal Moment in Social Work”: Access NASW’s Social Work Journal Online

Social Work Blog

Burned Out, Engaged, Both, or Neither? Exploring Engagement and Burnout Profiles among Social Workers in Spain Few studies have analyzed the existence of homogeneous groups in burnout and engagement among professionals, and none in social workers. The research has implications for the practice of child social workers.

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News Items – April 29, 2022

Social Workers Speak

. “If self-care is about what you do for yourself, then community care is what you put into and what you are able to receive from the community you have built around yourself, as well as the community you live in,” says Donna Oriowo, PhD, LICSW , therapist, author and licensed independent clinical social worker. Psychology Today.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Systemic racism in the economy, the healthcare system, and the field of clinical psychology perpetuates the disparities in access, retention, and effectiveness of mental health services. The FSU Psychology Clinic is a training clinic staffed by doctoral students and housed within the university’s clinical psychology PhD program.

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Getting Better Outcomes from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

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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How do we know when posttraumatic stress disorder is getting better?

Society of Clinical Psychology

More importantly, in the absence of a clear agreement on treatment response or non-response, it is difficult to effectively plan treatment and make timely clinical decisions such as when to cease, persist with or consider augmenting treatment. Having a score of less than or equal to 20-points on the Clinically Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS).