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DfE proposes law change to improve adults’ access to adoption therapy

Community Care

The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption support agencies.

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(CY) 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Key Provisions Impacting Clinical Social Workers

Social Work Blog

Psychotherapy with Crisis and Higher-Level Codes : NASW urges CMS to allow high-level services such as crisis psychotherapy to be furnished through audio-only. clinical assessments, consultation, therapeutic care etc.) By definition, a mental health crisis is urgent, and help is required as soon as possible.

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Diversity Spotlight: Dr. Nita Tewari

Society of Clinical Psychology

In 2000, she completed her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at Southern Illinois University. Dr. Tewari is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (CA) who provides psychological and consulting services to young adults, parents and diverse populations in her practice. Tewari received a B.A.

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Microaggressions towards LGBT individuals: what about clinical practice?

Society of Clinical Psychology

It becomes particularly problematic to reproduce these forms of microaggressive behavior in consultation or therapy. centering all consultation on marginalized identities alone (e.g., Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 13 , 258–275. The Counseling Psychologist. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 11 , 204–212.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

In our paper published in The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , we found that although therapeutic outcomes (i.e., Ethnoracial status, intersectionality with gender, and psychotherapy utilization, retention, and outcomes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 90 (10), 837–849. Robison, M., Robertson, L.,

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Creating a Community of Care: Distress, Impairment, and Ethics

Society of Clinical Psychology

Honest conversations informally, through organized mechanisms such as peer consultation groups, and through publications, about our own struggles may help to normalize these experiences and start critical conversations [see Vierthaler and Elliot (2020) and Nash and Chapman (2019) for informative and powerful examples]. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.2012.02070.x.

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Q&A: Technology Use in Mental Health Practice and Research

Society of Clinical Psychology

Third, begin consulting and asking lawyers, legal experts, and/or tech-focused psychologists about practices with technology. Has insurance billing fully caught up with these technological options in providing psychotherapy? Samuel Lustgarten is a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa’s Counseling Psychology Ph.D.