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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Adults make most of the decisions about a child’s life from where they live, what they eat and when, where they go to school, what clothes they have and much more. This could include experiencing ongoing pervasive abuse or trauma as the brain is forming, meaning the symptoms of PTSD are essentially ‘baked into’ a young person’s development.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Adults make most of the decisions about a child’s life from where they live, what they eat and when, where they go to school, what clothes they have and much more. This could include experiencing ongoing pervasive abuse or trauma as the brain is forming, meaning the symptoms of PTSD are essentially ‘baked into’ a young person’s development.

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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. Shannon Wiltsey Stirman is a Psychologist at the National Center for PTSD and an Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

Denise Sloan and Brian Marx discusses findings from a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry that compares the effectiveness of a brief exposure-based therapy for PTSD with Cognitive Processing Therapy with implications for finding the ‘right treatment dose’ for reducing symptoms. Watts et al.). 2012; Nacasch et al.,

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Members in the News – August 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

My main specialty is in providing trauma therapy to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). When her own child came out as trans some 18 years ago, resources were nearly impossible to find, she said, and the experience was isolating. I provide online counseling services to adults living in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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