Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 12, 2023

When our self-esteem takes a blow , it can affect everything in our lives, including how we feel about ourselves, our jobs, our physical appearance, and our mental abilities. Rebecca Gerwitz is executive director of NASW-MA: Our View: Mental health hotline a solid step forward. Gloucester Daily Times. My Central Jersey.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 31, 2022

What about mental health care? While the perpetrators of school shootings have exhibited what might be mental health problems (which often are undiagnosed or treated), in general, people who have mental health illnesses are more likely to be victims of violence than to inflict violence.

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 29, 2022

Mayor Adams, NYC Health + Hospitals Announces $1 Million Anonymous Donation to Launch Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Behavioral Health Professionals. faces a national mental health professional shortage. These two mental health professionals met on Facebook and immediately clicked.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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Stop Abuse Campaign

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If someone attempts suicide, they are likely to experience a profound loss of civil rights- they can be involuntarily committed to psychiatric care for 72 hours. No one tries to see if they’re safe at home, no one follows up to see if they are keeping their appointments, and no one seems to care about what happens outside the hospital.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If someone attempts suicide, they are likely to experience a profound loss of civil rights- they can be involuntarily committed to psychiatric care for 72 hours. No one tries to see if they’re safe at home, no one follows up to see if they are keeping their appointments, and no one seems to care about what happens outside the hospital.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Technology offers exciting and promising solutions to address both patient- and system-level barriers to accessing mental health treatment. Passive sensor data may one day help us to assess mental health more frequently, and to use assessments to deliver or adapt technology-based interventions in real-time. Enander, J.,

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Social Workers Speak

AUGUST 5, 2021

.… The 38-year-old Dorchester native and first-generation Cape Verdean American works as a social worker in addictions at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in the emergency psychiatric department at Boston Children’s Hospital. No one is immune… Her actions to prioritize her mental health should inspire us all.”

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Beautiful Voyager

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

, a new French-Canadian online community that focuses on opening the dialogue on mental health and breaking the isolation. All middle aged (or so) entrepreneur businessmen openly sharing about their journey through mental health challenges, recovery and public disclosure. Speak up, it is your experience, your health.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

Social workers use their skills and expertise to promote good mental health, strengthen relationships, and end generational cycles of trauma and substance use, ultimately creating healthier families and communities. Social workers provide a majority of America’s mental health services.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 18, 2022

It is the overwhelming consensus of major medical and mental health associations that gender affirming care is life-saving, best practice care for transgender and gender expansive youth … When youth are accepted and affirmed, the rates of mental distress and suicide decrease,” Reiner said. by 2030, up 12 percent from 2020.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 10, 2022

Policymakers seek more proactive approach to mental health for foster kids carrying trauma. According to licensed clinical social worker with Baptist Hospital, Melissa Donahue , “Buddy’s Law” would have definitely helped slow the cycle of violence and helped catch issues in homes. Albany Times Union. he said. .

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship Fund This scholarship is awarded to a student currently conducting their field placement at the UConn Counseling & Mental Health Services. I am completing my field education at Natchaug Hospital in an outpatient program for older adults experiencing mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 23, 2020

African Americans in the United States had (and likely continue to have) more infections, hospitalizations, and subsequent deaths from COVID-19 than any other racial/ethnic group (Milam et al., Among Black people, these dueling pandemics had the potential to contribute to adverse mental health outcomes. 2020; Yancy, 2020).

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Social Workers Speak

APRIL 1, 2022

Lynn Zakeri, a Chicago based licensed clinical social worker said this pediatric mental health crisis is due to children trying to find control in their own ways. ” Gina Corona is a member: Cuomo Set Out to ‘Transform’ Mental Health Care for Kids. Future of Personal Health. has increased dramatically.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

for example, 20% of individuals recall meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) at some point in their lives (Hasin et al., References American Psychiatric Association. In the United States (U.S.), 2020, 2021).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 7, 2016

In response to these challenges, the Beck Community Initiative of the University of Pennsylvania trained approximately 350 clinicians at 30 CBH programs in Cognitive Therapy to help people recover from a broad range of mental health concerns (Creed at el., J., … The Research Network on Youth Mental Health. Chorpita, B.

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