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Addressing Veterans’ Mental Health: An Overview

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) An estimated 7% of veterans are diagnosed with PTSD in their lifetimes. The inequitable nature of PTSD, coupled with other intense feelings (such as survivors’ guilt), can lead to increased levels of post-traumatic stress and lower levels of self-esteem among those experiencing PTSD. deployments).

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

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Substance use disorder. At its most basic, safety planning is a way to help clients experiencing suicidal ideation navigate their feelings in a way that prevents self-injurious behavior. Substance use disorders and safety planning. The ramifications of these substance use disorders go beyond the individual.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

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Substance use disorder. At its most basic, safety planning is a way to help clients experiencing suicidal ideation navigate their feelings in a way that prevents self-injurious behavior. Substance use disorders and safety planning. The ramifications of these substance use disorders go beyond the individual.

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News Items – March 3, 2022

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Social workers have been finding shelter for homeless covid patients, providing treatment for people with addiction disorders made more challenging by pandemic-related social isolation, and comforting bereaved family members who have lost loved ones to the twin epidemics of covid and opioids. Should social workers work with police?

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News Items – September 30, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Victor Armstrong is the first chief health equity officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Jennifer FitzPatrick is a member: How to Communicate with Frontline Staff at Your Loved One’s Long-Term Care Facility. The Charlotte Observer. They hope to train 160 students through the program.

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UPDATE: Federal Rule to Prevent Surprise Health Care Billing – Application to Clinical Social Workers

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Part II requires all health care providers (including CSWs) and health care facilities licensed, certified or approved by the state to provide good faith estimates (GFEs) of expected charges for services and items offered to uninsured (e.g., not enrolled in any health plan) and self-pay (e.g., Compliance Steps.

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You Asked, We Answered; 12 Questions about Trauma-Informed-Care

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Trauma-related disorders typically form when there is a delay in seeking treatment or an individual has practiced forms of avoidance. Such invalidation is harmful to the traumatized individual. Recommend participation in positive, community-based activities. This is why TIC is so crucial. Encourage physical exercise.