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What is Schema Therapy? An overview and what to expect

Lawson Psychology

An overview and what to expect In the realm of psychological interventions, Schema Therapy has as a reputation as a holistic approach that addresses deep-seated emotional patterns and entrenched belief systems. What on earth is a schema?

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Social Work Can Play a Critical Role in Pain Management

Social Work Blog

Interventions, such as motivational interviewing, and techniques, like going with resistance and offering empathy, validation and reflection, are important. The DSM-V notes that pain disorders relate to psychological factors. Always start where the client is, she suggests, and validate their feelings.

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Social work leaders must take action to embed anti-racist practice, conference told

Community Care

Now, we can say that it is not psychologically safe.” The impact of racial trauma includes anxiety, depression, avoidant behaviour, difficulty concentrating, feelings of humiliation and hypervigilance. What have exit interviews been telling you about those that have left?” But the murder of George Floyd helped us to name it.

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Staff-to-service-user ratios ‘not safe’ in UK social work, say two-thirds of practitioners

Community Care

with scores of 18-20 constituting possible cases of depression or anxiety. Personal burnout was measured as 64.62, compared with 60.76 at phase two, burnout perceived as related to work was 62.79 (phase two: 58.38) and burnout perceived as related to work with clients was 34.74 (phase two: 30.19).

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

Over about the last 50 years, clinical research has proven without a doubt that psychotherapy significantly alleviates the symptoms of a wide range of mental illnesses, for example, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and addictions (Lutz et al., Journal of clinical psychology , 63 (6), 585-592.

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Podcast: Smart and well

Clinical Psychology of Social Interaction

The team is currently working on an interview series with experts in different mental health-related fields such as psychology, healthcare, coaching, and others. Based on surveys conducted by some of the group members, the conversations with experts will address topics that are currently prevalent among academics based in Germany.

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Stress in the Workplace: most stressful industries

MQ Mental Health

In an interview with The Guardian in 2019, she discussed the toll that the job can take on her mental health and the importance of taking care of herself. Last year (2023), Jacinda Ardern the Prime Minister of New Zealand, announced she’d step back from the role.