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The Art of Destressing: How Creativity Creates Less Stress

MQ Mental Health

Many people are aware of common therapies used to treat mental health conditions like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, psychotherapy and group therapy. And creative activities can help promote knowledge and positive behaviours in children and young people. Creating is a way of showing ourselves to ourselves.

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Notes from the Future – February 17, 2023

Social Work Futures

For people involved in foresight practice, the practice of scanning, organizing and creatively interpreting “signals of change” in the ecosystem is a primary and foundational part of the work. Highlights include that a surprising (and encouraging) majority of Americans (64%) say that they are somewhat worried about climate change.

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Creating Effective Training Programs in Post-Acute Care

Relias

According to the Relias 2023 S tate of Healthcare Training and Staff Development Report , 68% of managers in the post-acute-care sector reported that their current staff development and training program has a “major” or “significant” impact on achieving their organization’s top business goals.

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Office of Research and Scholarship Update – Winter 2022

University of Connecticut

A Strengths-Based Program to Support Families in Crisis An example of an innovative partnership with the state is the work of Assistant Research Professor Patricia Carlson, who along with her colleague Brenda Kurz, has received a grant to study a new program to empower families.

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Announcing the MQ Lived Experience Network

MQ Mental Health

It is known that the highest quality research is carried out with the involvement of the very people that stand to benefit most from its findings. This is why MQ has long been an advocate of collaborative research that champions the voices and involvement of people with lived and living experience of mental illnesses.

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Group Work with Older Individuals: Imagine the Possibilities

University of Connecticut

The global pandemic threatened individual and familial economic security, increased social isolation, and negatively affected individual physical and mental health, as well as social well-being. Social group work is a non-hierarchical and strengths-based practice incorporating purposeful activity and mutual aid.

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Research: Young Adult Perceptions of Climate Change, Here and Abroad

University of Connecticut

We hope to learn about the youth’s involvement with climate activism, as well as any anxieties or concerns with climate change broadly. By looking at youth and young adults from varying nationalities, we hope to learn about what motivates or hinders them from being actively engaged in addressing climate change.