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Why don’t people receive a psychosocial assessment in emergency departments after self-harm?

The Social Care Elf

Amelia Talbot looks at a recent qualitative study of patient and carer perspectives, which explores the reasons why some patients do not receive a psychosocial assessment in emergency departments following self-harm.

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Four vital Psychosocial aspects in communicating with the terminally ill patient and family

Hospice Chaplaincy

Jo Hockley Since the 1960s there has been an increasing interest in the psychosocial aspects of end of life care. Continue Reading.

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Brad Zebrack Receives the American Psychosocial Oncology Society’s Ruth McCorkle Excellence in Research Mentorship Award

Michigan Social Work

Professor Brad Zebrack has received the American Psychosocial Oncology Society’s Ruth McCorkle Excellence in Research Mentorship Award.

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Medicare Launches New Enhancing Oncology Model

CAPC

Emphasizes health equity, symptom management, and psychosocial health, and encourages care partners. News Bites Payment and Program Financing

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New Value-Based Enhancing Oncology Model Launches 2023

CAPC

Emphasizes symptom management and psychosocial health, and encourages “care partners”. News Bites Payment and Program Financing

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Social Workers in the DRC Building Community Centre

International Federation of Social Workers

This project aims to offer health and psychosocial care to the local community, with the majority having suffered and traumatised by the continuous war in the country. […].

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The Statement On the Earthquake in Turkiye and Syria

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

The grief they endure as they realise that the world that they have known has gone forever is deep and may require long-term psychosocial support.

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Before Sending Your Kid to Counseling….

Gary Direnfeld

Counseling is a serious psychosocial intervention. While I am pleased so many parents value counseling and want it for their kids, do know that it is not always helpful and indeed, can be harmful.

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Guest Post: Helping and Compassion Fatigue by Thomas R. Metzinger, LCSW, CCHt (USMC Veteran)

Bipolar Bandit

Compassion fatigue causes sufferers to find a way of coping with their vicarious trauma, which manifests as intense emotional, physical, and psychosocial challenges.

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Is There a Link between Childhood Trauma and Heart Disease?

Stop Abuse Campaign

As you can imagine, the constant exposure to psychosocial and environmental stress across the life of childhood trauma survivors are directly relevant in development of cardiovascular disease. ← Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers.

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National Report Addresses Nursing Home Quality & Promotes Value of Social Work

Social Work Blog

Image description: Photo of an empty bed in the corner of a room, topped by two pillows and a handmade blanket. A walker is positioned next to the bed, and sunlight is coming through a window with a curtain. The window is over a low table that holds a mug, plant, and open book. Posted April 22, 2022.

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Back to School This Fall: Addressing Trauma’s Impact

inSocialWork

She has worked with institutions planning for and dealing with person- and nature-made disasters with a recent focus on the impact of the pandemic on student learning and psychosocial development. Karen Gross.

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What is a mentally healthy workplace?

Prosper Health Collective

Mentally healthy workplace assist in reducing psychosocial risks and injuries and have a numbers of benefits for employees and organisations such as: Supporting employees to perform at their best. What is a mentally healthy workplace?

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2022 International Women’s Day

MQ Mental Health

This International womens day, we want to celebrate the achievements of three inspiring past MQ Fellows. The MQ Fellows awards invests in early career researchers, giving them the support and funding they need to expand on their research and develop their careers within mental health science.

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Let’s Talk About Sleep

Millennial Social Worker

To avoid experiencing health problems and other psychosocial impacts, sleep should be prioritized. Sleep is particularly essential because it heavily influences our energy level, our motivation, and our emotions. It affects our daily functioning, our physical and mental health in many ways.

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It’s time to suspend hospice social work visits (COVID-19)

Hospice Social Work

Under normal circumstances, hospice patients benefit from frequent social worker visits even when there isn’t an urgent psychosocial concern. To reduce the risk of spreading the contagion among the elderly, it’s time for hospice social workers to limit our visits to patients.

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Targeting Anxiety Sensitivity in Prevention Treatments: A Meta-Analysis

Society of Clinical Psychology

Dr. Otto has had a major career focus on developing and validating new psychosocial treatments for mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders, as well as work in health promotion ranging from medication adherence to exercise behaviors.

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How to choose a good hospice (whether you’re looking for a job or signing up a relative)

Hospice Social Work

Through the most intense psychosocial challenges, social workers benefit from knowing that we are not acting alone. Now begins a discussion of how to choose a strong hospice.

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

Social Work Blog

Abstinence only models frown upon the use of methadone because it does not address psychosocial factors that contribute to drug use. Getty Images. By Marisa Markowitz, LMSW, CASAC-T.

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Training therapists in evidence-based mental health interventions: What works and what holds promise for the future?

Society of Clinical Psychology

However, despite all her years of psychosocial intervention, she had never received evidence-based interventions for her anxiety. The role of therapist training in the implementation of psychosocial treatments: A review and critique with recommendations.

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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. How to Protect Your Data Post Roe v. One Green Planet. These [apps] are incredibly powerful tools for health activity and monitoring, but in the wake of Roe v.

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A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19

Social Work Synergy

Once the doctors rush out of the room, social workers sit with someone for an hour to conduct an assessment of their psychosocial histories- do they have anyone at home who will help? by Melanie Sage, LCSW, PhD.

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What we know now about bridging the gap between research and practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

As we have started to investigate reasons why evidence-based psychosocial treatments (EBPTs) aren’t widely used in everyday practice, a new area of research, implementation science, has emerged.

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Why Reporting Harms Matters

Society of Clinical Psychology

This situation could result in psychopharmacology receiving more attention compared to psychosocial care, due simply to the availability of more comprehensive information about treatment, including harms, for use in decision making. What is the public health significance of this article?

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Prioritizing Mental Health on College Campuses

Society of Clinical Psychology

He is a psychiatric epidemiologist whose research deals broadly with the prevalence, psychosocial risk factors, and consequences of common mental disorders in the general population and with the evaluation of diverse large-scale interventions for these disorders.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

It was at this point that the NIMH moved away from a psychosocial model that focused on specific psychological problems and adopted more of a medical model to treating psychological problems, construing psychological problems more as disorders.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

Within a large clinical sample of those, we compared therapist and client ratings of PD pathology at baseline to indicators of psychosocial functioning collected five years later.

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

It is that, in this context, her psychodevelopmental difficulties in becoming her own person, knowing and having her own clear thoughts, make perfect psychosocial sense. In Where's the Problem?

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Apple AirPods and my Social Workin Day

Social Work Tech

I willl lose myself in music because my brain can’t untangle the nuances of a psychosocial assessment while listening to a security expert on NPR go on about the dangers of our President’s tweeting behavior.

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Parental Military Deployment and Children: What Have We Learned from More than a Decade of War?

Society of Clinical Psychology

The psychosocial effects of deployment on military children. by Candice A. Alfano & Simon Lau, Department of Psychology, University of Houston. A common saying in the military is that when one person joins the whole family serves.

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The Promise of Transdiagnostic Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

Society of Clinical Psychology

Significant progress has been made in recent decades in identifying effective psychosocial treatments for anxiety and mood disorders. This SCP blog piece by Drs.

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Medication, Behavioral Therapy, or Both? Examining Understudied Domains for Children with ADHD

Society of Clinical Psychology

Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Children and Adolescents Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Children and Adolescents With Disruptive Behavior. Evidence-based psychosocial treatments for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. by Brittany M.

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The Impact of Immigration Policy on Latino Families: A Call to Action for Psychologists

Society of Clinical Psychology

Her current research interests include the development of adolescents of color with a focus on exposure to community violence, cross age peer mentoring, poverty, resilience, and how these relate to psychosocial well-being.

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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. This SCP blog by Drs.

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