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NASW Recognizes October 6th as National Depression Screening Day

Social Work Blog

Senior Practice Associate, Clinical Social Work. It can result from a number of social, emotional, and biological factors. Screenings are completed by licensed clinical social workers and include questions about symptoms, their severity, and duration. By Denise Johnson, LCSW-C.

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News Items – August 18, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Angelo State University has added a new Doctor of Social Work (D.S.W.) in clinical social work degree program that is the first of its kind in Texas and the third doctoral degree now offered by ASU. Sandra Eagle is a member: Why Small Businesses Matter: Sandra Eagle, LCSW Transformational Psychotherapy.

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How Improv theater is like therapy | NASW Member Voices

Social Work Blog

Beginning stages of therapy: therapists build rapport and help clients feel emotionally vulnerable The therapeutic alliance, or the relationship between therapist and client, is the biggest predictor of success in psychotherapy. There’s a term in clinical social work called “meeting the clients where they’re at.”

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The Delicate Balancing of the Couples Therapist

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Most forms of psychotherapy require that the therapist perform a “delicate balancing act” between competing forces. Some authors refer to this skill as dialectical thinking–the ability to mentally (and emotionally) hold seemingly opposite factors in dynamic tension in service of moving a system toward higher functioning.

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Frozen Grief and Emotional Eating

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Treatment for emotional eating–binge eating, bulimia, anorexia, body image disorder, chronic dieting–needs to incorporate psychotherapy with behavioral/cognitive strategies, and sometimes medication. This is not to minimize the very real upset that people experience when their eating is out of control.