Social Workers Speak

JULY 8, 2022

The first time she left her community was to attend an elementary school. June is PTSD Awareness Month. Chante Meadows – owner and clinical director of Meadows Counseling Group – talks about the link between various traumas in someone’s life and a potential mental illness or substance use. It did not go well for her.

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PTSD LCSW Psychiatric Clinic 40

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

Intrusive thoughts or flashbacks of a traumatic event are similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). People experiencing a nervous breakdown may show symptoms that are similar to clinical depression. Early intervention and treatment can help prevent worsening of your symptoms, anxiety disorder, clinical depression, or psychosis.

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Disorder Mental Health Self-harm Paranoia 96

Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Schools in Black communities remain underfunded, with implicit bias impacting the assessment and evaluation of Black students in these schools. 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.

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Healthcare Diversity Consultation Schizophrenia 52

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the School of Social Work is able to offer a number of scholarship opportunities to our BSW and MSW students each academic year. Rachelle Bataille, Bachelor of Social Work This scholarship meant a lot to me because this has been one of my most challenging school years.

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Justice and Corrections LMSW Schools Mental Health 52

Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 11, 2018

Denise Sloan and Brian Marx discusses findings from a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry that compares the effectiveness of a brief exposure-based therapy for PTSD with Cognitive Processing Therapy with implications for finding the ‘right treatment dose’ for reducing symptoms. Watts et al.). 2012; Nacasch et al.,

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PTSD Psychiatry Military Psychology 52

Social Workers Speak

APRIL 1, 2022

School of Social Work students walk out of classes, demand payment for internships. Graduate students at the University of Michigan School of Social Work walked out of their classes Monday morning and gathered on the Diag to rally for Payments for Placements (P4P). As a middle school counselor Ruiz faced this problem head on.

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PTSD Social Worker Self-harm Clinic 40

Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Poor engagement is compounded by a lack of collaboration between clinician-scientists, industry, and key stakeholders (Schueller, Muñoz, & Mohr, 2013) – a partnership that, if pursued, can effectively marry clinical and scientific rigor with expertise in user-interface design and engagement, as well as insights into real-world needs.

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Interventional CBT Psychiatry OCD 52