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September is National Recovery Month: Supporting the Journey to Recovery 

Social Work Blog

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. Social workers help patients eliminate psychosocial stressors such as homelessness, loss of job, divorce, and loneliness that may have led to their use of substances.

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September is National Recovery Month: Supporting the Journey to Recovery 

Social Work Blog

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. Social workers help patients eliminate psychosocial stressors such as homelessness, loss of job, divorce, and loneliness that may have led to their use of substances.

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2022 International Women’s Day

MQ Mental Health

She found that altering the timing of psychological therapy for women with anxiety disorders to work around their hormonal fluctuations can make the treatment more effective. Whilst she was an MQ Fellow Bronwyn was promoted to senior lecturer and published 15 peer-reviewed publications.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

For adults with mental illness, recovery can be improved by positive risk-taking and there is some argument for psychotherapy to lean more towards developing authenticity, competence and autonomy or self-belief. Once someone has mental health problems, there are many ways mental illness can affect autonomy.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although psychotherapy has been in existence for over a century, the field has struggled to build upon research findings with consistent, accumulating evidence. perfection, and procrastination), and instead placed the priority on research that focused on DSM -disorders. saying no). saying no).

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

For adults with mental illness, recovery can be improved by positive risk-taking and there is some argument for psychotherapy to lean more towards developing authenticity, competence and autonomy or self-belief. Once someone has mental health problems, there are many ways mental illness can affect autonomy.

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

She is an expert on psychosocial interventions for traumatic stress disorders and has a specific interest in efficient treatment approaches for PTSD. Marx has written over 150 articles and chapters on the topic of traumatic stress disorders. Meta-analysis of dropout in treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.

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