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NASW Member Voices: In Search of Transgenerational Office Space

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By Lorrie Appleton, LCSW I am preparing to meet a new therapy client. As a Systems Therapist, I welcome all attendees to the session, (in person or in absentia). By naming all associated parties, it becomes quite clear why Emily complains about sleeplessness, anxiety, depression, and somatization. Let’s call her Emily).

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News Items – May 25, 2023

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News Items – May 25, 2023 Carmen Reese Foster is a member of NASW-TN: Lack of empathy: Growing anxiety and depression follows wave of activism for Black social workers Milwaukee Independent Since the 2020 racial reckoning, social workers have prided ourselves on working to eliminate social justice disparities.

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News Items – May 25, 2023

Social Workers Speak

News Items – May 25, 2023 Carmen Reese Foster is a member of NASW-TN: Lack of empathy: Growing anxiety and depression follows wave of activism for Black social workers Milwaukee Independent Since the 2020 racial reckoning, social workers have prided ourselves on working to eliminate social justice disparities.

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News Items – December 1, 2022

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Therapists Explain. As relationship therapist Ken Page, LCSW , explains, with an ambivalent resistant attachment style, children become upset and/or emotional when their caregiver isn’t present, including feeling intense anger or anxiety. Ken Page is a member of NASW-NYS: What Is The Ambivalent Attachment Style?

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News Items – July 29, 2022

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Clinicians of Color was founded by Lisa Savage, LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) , and Kim L. They realized that Black and Brown therapists were doing amazing things but often overlooked. Half of all men whose partners have postpartum depression are depressed themselves,” said Will Courtenay , Ph.D., Yahoo News.

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News Items – February 2, 2023

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Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, the founder and executive director of GayTherapyLA , devoted a blog post to gay gym crushes in 2021. Many depressed and anxious persons instinctively hide their symptoms as high-functioning or productive.” But working-class Black people don’t have time for that; we must go to work and keep progressing.

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News Items – July 22, 2021

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As LCSW and holistic psychotherapist Alison Stone notes, it may be difficult to truly savor and enjoy your coffee if you’re slugging it down while “doing a million things and running out the door.” Dan Scholz, LCSW, Clinical Director at LifeLine Utah joined us in studio as part of our You Are Not Alone partnership. PsychCentral.