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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background. Learn a combination of diagnosis and interventionist tools of dissociation to consider when engaged in treatment of populations of color. Military One Source.

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Member Voices: Intergenerational Gaffes or What Goes Around Comes Around?

Social Work Blog

Smith, he is seen by others as engaging and funny. Lorrie has practiced in a variety of settings including private practice, non-profit, inpatient psychiatric, military behavioral health, schools, corporations, and human service agencies. I have been a practicing Social Worker for over 40 years and STILL talk too much.

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Getting Better Outcomes from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

Augmentation can work in lots of different ways, and might mean faster or greater symptom improvement relative to standard treatment alone, better engagement or retention with standard treatment, or improved skills or aspects of wellbeing that the standard treatment does not target, such as sleep or social rehabilitation.

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Addressing Access in Ethnoracially Diverse Populations: Lessons from a University-Based Community Mental Health Center

Society of Clinical Psychology

As mental health providers within an institution, we must continue engaging in community outreach to erase treatment gaps. Department of Defense-funded Military Suicide Research Consortium (msrc.fsu.edu). Psychiatric Services, 66(6), 578–584. He can be contacted at joiner@psy.fsu.edu. REFERENCES CITED Curtin, S. Cummings, J.

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Parental Military Deployment and Children: What Have We Learned from More than a Decade of War?

Society of Clinical Psychology

A common saying in the military is that when one person joins the whole family serves. For many military families, geographic relocations, disrupted family routines, financial hardships, and fear of losing a loved one became a way of life. Alfano & Simon Lau, Department of Psychology, University of Houston. 2008; Chandra et al.,

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Roadmap toward a neuromodulatory treatment for PTSD and anxiety

Society of Clinical Psychology

Neuromodulation is rapidly emerging as a novel avenue for the treatment of psychiatric conditions, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive neuromodulation technique, has been shown to be a versatile tool in the arsenal (Lefaucheur et al., Device-Based Modulation of Neurocircuits as a Therapeutic for Psychiatric Disorders.

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