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Addressing Access in Ethnoracially Diverse Populations: Lessons from a University-Based Community Mental Health Center

Society of Clinical Psychology

OUR STUDY Our team at Florida State University (FSU) sought to study differences in access to, retention throughout, and effectiveness of therapy across gender, ethnic, and racial groups in our local community of Leon County, Florida. when both the client and therapist identified as Black) was associated with more sessions attended.

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News Item – July 15, 2021

Social Workers Speak

University of St. It is also the second-largest federal grant (outside of COVID-19 stimulus funds) ever awarded to the University of St. Marinelle Reynolds is a member: [Audio] How Occupational Licensing Rules Affect Military Families. She’s a licensed clinical social worker and a military spouse herself.

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News Items – October 14, 2021

Social Workers Speak

A lack of communication about the rules, or payments being even one penny off, are among the reasons thousands of social workers, teachers, military members, and government employees say they were rejected for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. In the loving company of his family, he took his last breath on Thursday, September 23, 2021.

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News Items – December 1, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Therapists Explain. As relationship therapist Ken Page, LCSW , explains, with an ambivalent resistant attachment style, children become upset and/or emotional when their caregiver isn’t present, including feeling intense anger or anxiety. Sean Barnett, LCSW , is a therapist who has used psychedelic integration with his patients.

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Realizing the Promise: Strategic Dissemination and Implementation of CBT in Public and Private Health Care Systems

Society of Clinical Psychology

Program evaluation results from this initiative reveal EBP training and implementation has been associated with large improvements among therapists, including improvements in therapist competencies and positive attitudes toward EBPs, and robust improvements in symptoms and quality of life among Veterans.

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News Items – August 11, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Elizabeth (Potter) Kemfort is a member: Saint Leo University MSW Alumna Positively Impacting Veterans, Teens. Saint Leo University. She said she’s seen therapists in certain areas erring on the side of caution, canceling services altogether for trans youth. Florida Phoenix.

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News Items – June 24, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Dennis Anderson is a member: Juneteenth’s meaning and the US military. University of Texas – Arlington. For decades, Jan Finch has dedicated her life to helping others as a therapist and social worker. As a therapist, I am inherently trained in crisis intervention,” Finch said. “So Antelope Valley Press. Daily Kos. .”