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How To Apply the RBT Code of Ethics to Your Work

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They are: Standard 2.01: RBTs do no harm and support the best interest of their clients. Standard 2.04: RBTs do not use interventions they do not know how to use. They cannot provide services to unfamiliar client populations. RBTs are bound to protect sensitive data and ensure that discussions and interventions remain private.

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Addressing Veterans’ Mental Health: An Overview

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The inequitable nature of PTSD, coupled with other intense feelings (such as survivors’ guilt), can lead to increased levels of post-traumatic stress and lower levels of self-esteem among those experiencing PTSD. Loyalty: Commitment to serve one’s country, protect fellow service members, and accomplish missions. deployments).

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

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At its most basic, safety planning is a way to help clients experiencing suicidal ideation navigate their feelings in a way that prevents self-injurious behavior. While your first reaction as a human services professional may be to remove your client from the abusive relationship, this is not always the best course of action.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

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At its most basic, safety planning is a way to help clients experiencing suicidal ideation navigate their feelings in a way that prevents self-injurious behavior. While your first reaction as a human services professional may be to remove your client from the abusive relationship, this is not always the best course of action.

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News Items – September 30, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Victor Armstrong is the first chief health equity officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. A trained clinical social worker, she has seen first hand the harm of sexual assault on campus, citing the fact that many female students from UMass come to her office in Amherst for therapy.

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September Is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month — How Can You Help Prevent Suicide?

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The CDC gathers data regarding non-fatal injuries of self-harm, as well as voluntary survey data. One study found that the number of suicide deaths decreases when someone follows-up after a suicide intervention. In 2018, over 48,000 Americans died by suicide, with 50% of those deaths involving firearms.

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You Asked, We Answered; 12 Questions about Trauma-Informed-Care

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Such invalidation is harmful to the traumatized individual. Therapeutic interventions may be most effective when racial trauma is addressed and treated as the trauma that it is. To begin offering trauma-informed care to clients coping with the effects of racial trauma, use the following strategies: Address self-blame and rumination.