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News Items – August 11, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Being a teen is hard enough, but with the current adolescent mental health crisis , parents should know about the psychosocial challenges — from stress to suicidal thoughts — teens face nowadays. Lynn Hagan is a member: Be Remarkable: Lynn Hagan helps disaster relief volunteers, military members. Boston Children’s Hospital.

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NASW Member Voices: Considering a career in addiction social work? Here is what you should know

Social Work Blog

There are clinical, military, hospital, school social work, and other options. Abstinence only models frown upon the use of methadone because it does not address psychosocial factors that contribute to drug use. Do my skills align with the amount of knowledge I gained in school?

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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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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

She is an expert on psychosocial interventions for traumatic stress disorders and has a specific interest in efficient treatment approaches for PTSD. Implementation Outcomes of Military Provider Training in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Military Medicine, 178 , 939-944.

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