2017

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Racial Disparities in Mental Health Treatment

Simmons University

Individuals with a mental health illness in the United States can face fragmented or unavailable services, high costs, and social stigma. It is particularly difficult for people of color to receive adequate and culturally appropriate treatment. The post Racial Disparities in Mental Health Treatment appeared first on SC-UMT.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP Blog post by Brittany Speed, Brandon Goldstein, and Dr. Marvin Goldfried discuss their recent publication in CP:SP addressing the role of assertiveness training in 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.

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Adoptees as parents: How Korean American adoptees talk about ethnicity, race, and adoption

Jaeran Kim

Each year University of Washington Tacoma invites faculty to present on their research and I was fortunate to be asked to participate in this year’s Lightening Talk. These are very short presentations (5 minutes!) with timed slides. It was challenging to condense a research study into 20 slides in five minutes, but here is a video of my presentation, highlighting the findings of our study on Korean adoptee parenting.

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The emotional resilience of a social worker

Social Worker Blog

I’ve had this article title written down to write for about 6 months now. So, after a particularly emotionally challenging week last week I thought it was about time I finally said this.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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#StateofMH

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On today’s report by the Care Quality Commission on the state of mental health care in the UK. My tweets – my thoughts on two serious shortcomings in how today’s report deals with the issue of use of force by mental health staff. Including others’ tweets too . Related links: Documents: The state of care in mental health services 2014 to 2017 – Findings from CQC’s programme of comprehensive inspections of specialist mental health services (20 July 2017).

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A New Kind of Safety Plan

Social Work Tech

As a clinical social worker, I often worry about my clients. Besides working with a higher-risk population that have had hospitalizions in the past year, I’m a human being and I care about my clients. I especially have a soft spot for people suffering with hopelessness, feelings of worthlessness, and depression. It’s a hell I’m familiar with.

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HuffPost: Millenial Generation Faces Scariest Financial Insecurity

Michigan Girl's Café

Greetings. I know that I have not maintained this blog frequently but I still exist! I wanted to share an interesting by Michael HObbes on the financial insecurity of the millennial generation in the Huffington Post. I agree with the premise of the article that millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression. by Michael HObbes, who claims himself among the older side of millenials at the age of 35, debunks common myths and stereotypes associated

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Theories and Methods - Family Systems Theory

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker Exam

Family systems theory may or may not show up on the licensed clinical social work exam. And you may never practice family therapy. But the language of family systems theory can still come in handy, in clinical practice and in life. Take a moment to review. Family systems theory springs from the work of Murray Bowen (you'll sometimes see it labelled "Bowenian Family Therapy").

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151 -Strengths Based Approach to Treating PTSD

Counselor Toolbox podcast

PTSD impacts millions of people. Learn about why the symptoms make sense from a survival perspective and ways to address and reduce those symptoms PTSD impacts millions of people.

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Can prisoners with mental health problems benefit from psychological therapy? Yes, but health and justice need to be closer friends.

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP blog by Karen Slade, Psy.D. correspondents with a new article in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology titled, “Outcomes of Psychological Therapies for Prisoners with Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. All over the world, people held in our jails and prisons experience far greater levels of mental illness than the general population including PTSD, major depression, psychotic illness and personality disorder (Fazel & Seewald, 2012, Goff

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Get Connected: Using Social Media for Social Work Success

Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

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What makes mental illness stigma so hard to change (and also to study)?

Society of Clinical Psychology

by Ava T. Casados about her recently published article in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Society holds negative attitudes about mental illness, and these attitudes form a stigma that impacts many individuals on both interpersonal levels (e.g., blaming, name-calling) and institutional levels (e.g., employment discrimination). The stigma experienced because of one’s mental illness can in turn exacerbate psychological symptoms and deter treatment-use and recovery, thus further compromis

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A Survivor’s guide to Clinical Supervision

Society of Clinical Psychology

This student blog piece was written and submitted by Amanda R. Simmons, M.A., SCP, Section 10 Campus Representative, University of Denver. In finishing up my second year of the doctoral program at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology, I reflected on the number of times I heard that the success of supervision depends on the “fit” between supervisor and supervisee.

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How to make an international application to become a social worker in the UK

Social Worker Blog

Over the last six months I have received many questions from social workers abroad wanting to come and work in the UK. For this reason I have been doing some research in the hope that this makes it easier for people who do not know what there options actually are.

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What is the ASYE for social workers?

Social Worker Blog

Once you have completed your social work degree you will be wondering what you now need to do to get a job? How long do you need to wait before you can apply? You will usually find that we are the ones to graduate later normally around October/ November time.

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Reflective Practices for Graduate Students

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP Student blog post written by Lia Smith highlights some excellent pointers for graduate students in psychology. Many of us enter graduate school with the assumption that we are about to embark on a unique period of heavy workloads and extreme stress. We are so excited for the opportunity to pursue our long sought-after goals that we’re prepared to virtually throw the concept of work-life balance out the window.

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How to help strengthen your social care team

Social Worker Blog

I often think to myself what is the perfect social work team and what does it look like? Whilst I know a lot of this comes down to staffing issues, retention of social workers, budget cuts/ finances and of course senior management decisions and their expectations of us.

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Pensions for agency social workers

Social Worker Blog

I know that I moaned when I was employed about how much I felt I was loosing each month to my pension. Little did I know that when I became an agency social worker it would involve a lot more research.

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CPD for social workers

Social Worker Blog

What is CPD? CPD stands for Continuous Professional Development. In short, it is the way that we continue to learn and enhance our practice and keep up to date with any relevant changes.

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Fitness to practice for social workers

Social Worker Blog

If you have any further questions around the registration for HCPC or HCPC standards for social workers please read my previous posts. What is fitness to practice? Fitness to practice is the process undertaken by HCPC to ensure that the public are protected from social workers who are not ‘fit to practice”.

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Clinical Considerations When Clients Have Children

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP blog by Zalewski, Goodman, Cole, and McLaughlin corresponds with a new Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice article titled, “Clinical Considerations when Treating Adults who are Parents.” Flight attendants always instruct passengers to secure their own oxygen masks before assisting others. This simple practice reflects that parents can best help their children after ensuring their own well-being.

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HCPC standards for social workers

Social Worker Blog

There is a set of standards that we need to abide to ensure that we practice safely. This is known as the standards of proficiency. It used to be known as General social care council (GSCC) until it was abolished in 2012.

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HCPC registration for social workers

Social Worker Blog

What is HCPC? HCPC stands for Health and Care Professionals Council. It was created to monitor and maintain a register of health and care professionals to ensure that we all meet the set requirements and standards to practice effectively and safely.

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Why I Do It

Simmons University

As members of the SocialWork@Simmons community, our backgrounds are unique, with a shared dedication for our work and for the Simmons School of Social Work. What does social work mean to each of us? Why did we become social workers? Why did we join the SocialWork@Simmons community? “Why I Do It” tells these stories. . The post Why I Do It appeared first on SC-UMT.

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Navigating Supervision: Ten Tips for Psychology Graduate Students

Society of Clinical Psychology

by Jessica Cowan, SCP/ Section 10 Campus Representative. For many of us, when we begin our graduate-program work the concept of clinical supervision is a mysterious concept. We hear about supervision experiences from students further along in their training, and it’s perhaps conceptually and briefly addressed in initial coursework, but other than knowing that we will one day be assigned a supervisor(s) and that they will, in unknown ways shape our clinical training the nature of supervision can

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Can You Change Your Personality Traits?

Society of Clinical Psychology

by Brent W. Roberts, PhD. Can you change your personality traits? We know from hundreds of observational studies that personality traits can and do change. The fact that personality traits are not “set in plaster” naturally leads to the question of volitional change—if someone or some institution sets about to change personality, can it be done? This question had long plagued our lab.

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New Refugees Resettled in the U.S. in 2016

Simmons University

As the ongoing civil war in Syria drove steady growth in the global refugee population, the number of new refugees admitted to the United States increased significantly in calendar year 2016. With lawmakers, advocates, and the general public debating how best to address refugees, it is important to first and foremost recognize who they are and where they are coming from.

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Making the Most of Summer

Society of Clinical Psychology

by Keri Kirk, SCP/ Section 10 Campus Representative. As clinical psychology graduate students, we spend the academic year juggling many hats. We’re researchers, externs, teaching assistants, and so much more. We dedicate ourselves to becoming experts in providing service to others all while balancing our personal lives and individual obligations. By the start of summer, many of us just want a break!

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SSCP Student Poster Winners

Society of Clinical Psychology

The SSCP student poster competition yielded great diversity in the content of the work, but was uniformly of high quality. This led to numerous difficult decisions for the judges. This year, SSCP was able to award prizes to 3 winners ($250 prize) and 5 Distinguished Contributions ($100 prize). The winners of the 2017 SSCP Student Poster Competition are: Ema Tanovic.

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Easing Mental Health Technologies into Practice: Considerations for a Smooth Transition

Society of Clinical Psychology

You have probably heard it a million times – there is a technology revolution and mental health services are not exempt. In both research and the private sector there is much buzz about the potential of technology to transform mental health service delivery (Jones, 2014; Kazdin & Blasé, 2011). Case in point, Dr. Tom Insel recently stepped down as the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to take a position with the Google Life Sciences team to work on innovating health t

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Behavioral Activation for Depression During Pregnancy: Results from a multi-site pragmatic randomized controlled effectiveness trial.

Society of Clinical Psychology

Behavioral Activation for Depression During Pregnancy: Results from a multi-site pragmatic randomized controlled effectiveness trial – an SCP blog piece by Drs. Hubley and Dimidjian. For many, being pregnant is one of the most important and enjoyable moments in life. For others, life changes during pregnancy can become major challenges and 1 in 7 pregnant women become clinically depressed (Gavin et al., 2005).

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Is “Abnormal Psychology” Really all that Abnormal?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Is “Abnormal Psychology” Really all that Abnormal – a blog post by Jonathan D. Schaefer, a doctoral student of Clinical Psychology at Duke University. An assumption held by many—including many mental health professionals—is that people who suffer from one or more mental disorders constitute a small, troubled minority. This assumption is reflected in both the way we talk about mental illness (e.g., “abnormal psychology”), and in the stigmatization of individuals who suffer from

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My Self Care Plan (en Español)!

Social Work Tech

My Self-Care Plan is a very popular download on my Social Work Tech Tools section of my site. I translated it to the type of Spanish I use with my clients, out of necessity and per special request. You can download it on Social Work Tech Tools. This handout makes a great addition to your digital Social Work Tool Box! Downloadables. “Right-Click > Save Link As” to download the Self Care Plan (en Español) file in the following formats: Black and White.

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Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Do Beliefs About Biology Matter for Mental Health? by Kate MacDuffie and Tim Strauman about their newly published article in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Imagine that you have just visited a mental health professional and received a diagnosis of depression. You have just been given a name for the distressing emotional state which, prior to your appointment, felt confusing and unpredictable.

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SCP Clinical Psychology Graduate Student Summit RESCHEDULED

Society of Clinical Psychology

EVENT RESCHEDULED. Due to limited enrollment, the Clinical Psychology Graduate Student Summit is being rescheduled for the Fall (early October). We are sorry for the inconvenience. We look forward to seeing you at the APA Convention in DC in August, and invite you specifically to attend our graduate student/early professional events, including the Speed Mentoring/Section 10 Social Hour hosted by Division 12 and Section 10 on Friday August 4 th.

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Promoting Psychology in the Evolving Healthcare Landscape: Enhancing the Well-Being of Patients, Providers, and Populations

Society of Clinical Psychology

The Association of Psychologist in Academic Health Centers (APAHC) held its 8 th National Conference at Detroit’s Westin Book Cadillac hotel on March 9-11 th. It was the highest attended conference in the association’s history. Conference keynote speakers included APA leadership-Katherine Nordal, Ph.D., W. Douglas Tynan, Ph.D., ABPP, Jessica Henderson, Ph.D., ABPP.