Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

NASW recognizes June as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. PTSD impacts millions of people in the United States. According to the National Center for PTSD, a program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, about seven or eight of every 100 people will experience PTSD in their lifetime.”

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 9, 2023

Trauma exposure takes a toll on societies and individuals, leading to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for a sizable minority of individuals (Magruder et al., As such, intervening on memory-related processes has been a key focus when treating PTSD. 2015; Kilpatrick et al., Bomyea et al., 2016; van Marle, 2015).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 10, 2020

Several effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exist, yet nearly half of patients continue to have significant symptomatology after receiving them (e.g., Augmentation of PTSD treatments is particularly appealing to both clinicians and trauma survivors for several reasons. Combine two standard PTSD treatments.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2023

Given the success of these treatments and the high comorbidity between depression and anxiety, researchers have begun to extend the use cases of these protocols to individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Kozel et al., 2018) and PTSD (Philip et al., 2018) and anxiety (Diefenbach, Bragdon, et al.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 20, 2023

LoPresti received training at the Women’s Stress Disorders Treatment Team at VA Boston Healthcare Systems during her pre-doctoral internship and engaged in the Women’s Health Fellowship as a part of the Women’s Health Sciences Division at the National Center for PTSD.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

day experientially-oriented workshop (foundational training) followed by participation in small-group, telephone-based consultation led by an expert CBT-D Training Consultant to promote full competency development and facilitate local implementation. Training included participation in a 2.5-day 2013; Tuerk et al.,

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To properly address the social determinants of suicide, organizations can engage in activities that both directly and indirectly improve the mental health of their clients. Hopelessness may lead to worsened depression, which could then lead to thoughts of suicide and possibly dying by suicide.

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