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Your Healthy Outlook Can Promote Resilience and Recovery in Older Adults

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Identifying disorders “Behavioral health” often refers to mental health , psychiatric care, counseling, and substance use disorders treatment. 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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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

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Psychiatric Advance Directives. The purpose of substance use safety planning is to support the client in recovery, help them maintain sobriety, and work to prevent relapses. If your organization works with individuals dealing with SUDs, helping these clients create a safety plan can provide a huge boon to their recovery efforts.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

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Psychiatric Advance Directives. The purpose of substance use safety planning is to support the client in recovery, help them maintain sobriety, and work to prevent relapses. If your organization works with individuals dealing with SUDs, helping these clients create a safety plan can provide a huge boon to their recovery efforts.

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How to Create a Disaster Behavioral Health Plan

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Whether they are natural or man-made disasters, human services professionals must prepare accordingly. Disaster behavioral health and recovery. While PFA is not a substitute for therapy or other forms of psychiatric care, agencies can use it to help reduce stress and trauma immediately following a disaster.

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

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This resource from the American Psychiatric Association provides expert responses to common questions pertaining to PTSD. . Department of Health and Human Services. This blog from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence discusses the dynamics of abuse and helpful resources. Mighty Oaks Foundation . Prepared by.

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Strategies for Effective Suicide Loss Postvention

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Psychiatric issues, including depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and problematic substance use are more common with suicide losses compared to other types of losses. Were already experiencing psychiatric issues, such as depression, or had suicidal thoughts and behaviors prior to the death.

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News Items – February 10, 2022

Social Workers Speak

25 letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, seeking an exemption from the “good faith” estimates for routine mental and behavioral health services. Arguing that the rule is burdensome and unnecessary, mental health providers wrote a Jan. The Badger Herald.