Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Beginning January 1, 2022, clinical social workers (CSWs) will become eligible to participate in Medicare’s Quality Payment Program (QPP). MIPS was designed to tie payments to quality and cost efficient care, drive improvement in care processes and health outcomes, increase the use of healthcare information, and reduce the cost of care.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 31, 2017

Do Beliefs About Biology Matter for Mental Health? by Kate MacDuffie and Tim Strauman about their newly published article in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Imagine that you have just visited a mental health professional and received a diagnosis of depression. Reference Article.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

A nervous breakdown, also called mental breakdown, refers to the inability to perform functions of daily life due to intense psychological distress. In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 14, 2023

Although studies varied to some extent in terms of their findings, cognitive flexibility did not appear to be consistently or strongly associated with a history of SITB when researchers accounted for other mental health problems like depression. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Target Article Chung, J.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 30, 2018

This SCP Student Blog post by Adam Duberstein discusses the role of emotional support animals in clinical psychology. For instance, people may claim to have a psychological disability, when they instead wish to take their pets to college with them or dodge pet rents charged by landlords (Bourland, 2009). About the Author.

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Relias

JULY 13, 2023

Older adults in healthcare settings and long-term care facilities are more likely to have a behavioral health disorder than those who live in the community, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Also, keep in mind the circular relationship between pain, illness, and mental health issues.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2017

Casados about her recently published article in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Society holds negative attitudes about mental illness, and these attitudes form a stigma that impacts many individuals on both interpersonal levels (e.g., The stigma of mental illness appears only to be worsening, however (e.g.,

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Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. He is the founder and CEO of Genesis Psychiatric Solutions, a mental health outpatient clinic with offices in Virginia and Washington D.C.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

How mental illness causes homelessness. We’re becoming more comfortable attributing homelessness to “mental illness,” which usually means profound, unmanaged psychotic mental illnesses like schizophrenia are considered a primary cause. . The same holds for community mental health services.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

It’s not what you think… How mental illness causes homelessness We’re becoming more comfortable attributing homelessness to “mental illness,” which usually means profound, unmanaged psychotic mental illnesses like schizophrenia are considered a primary cause. Do you know your score?

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