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Your Healthy Outlook Can Promote Resilience and Recovery in Older Adults

Relias

Both of these statistics are concerning, as the American Psychological Association excepts the number of older adults to reach about 15 million by the year 2030. The ways in which you engage older adults throughout the process to build resilience should include a focus on recovery, hope, and well-being.

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Why Is It So Hard To Ask For Help When Facing Psychological Distress?

Beautiful Voyager

All middle aged (or so) entrepreneur businessmen openly sharing about their journey through mental health challenges, recovery and public disclosure. One interesting question raised by the host JF Lacasse was: why is it so hard, especially for men, to talk about their psychological and emotional challenges, and ask for help?

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Mental wellbeing can, and should, be assessed in clinical samples

Society of Clinical Psychology

Before you continue reading this blog, take a moment and reflect for one moment: what do you, as a clinical psychologist, use as a criterion for recovery or therapy success? Do you mainly focus on recovery from symptoms? However, the concepts of recovery and mental health have been changing over time (Bohlmeijer & Westerhof, 2021).

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12 Things I Learned from Teaching a New Class: Disaster Social Work – An Anti-Racist Lens

Social Work Futures

Here’s the course description: “This course presents a model of anti-racist social work practice focused on disaster and recovery. Balancing an anti-racist lens in terms of disaster prevention, preparation, intervention and recovery is not “hard.”

LCSW 268
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Harnessing Identity: The Key to Facilitating Effective Therapy Groups?

Society of Clinical Psychology

However, group therapy facilitation is understudied within psychology, so the evidence-base for how clinicians can lead groups most effectively is limited. Drawing from a range of empirical sources, we outline three main pathways through which group therapists engaging in identity leadership might improve clinical outcomes.

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The importance of Mental Health

Prosper Health Collective

Mental health is a state of your mental wellness , involving your emotional, psychological, and social well-being. You might find yourself more prone or vulnerable to behavioural patterns that you rather not engage in or that may take you further from what you value. Your body’s needs can impact on your vulnerability to mood swings.

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6 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care

Relias

Trauma-informed care can help people heal from trauma by providing them with a safe, respectful, and empowering environment that supports their overall recovery and growth. Facilitating connections and relationships among people who have shared experiences of trauma and recovery fosters a sense of hope and empowerment.