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Member Voices: My Journey to Clinical Social Work

Social Work Blog

Since the 1970s, our agency has been rooted in Traditional Medicine and currently specializes in Substance Use Disorders, issues of acculturation and cultural maintenance, and other common mental health concerns including, but not limited to, anxiety and depression. Moral of the story?

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How Improv theater is like therapy | NASW Member Voices

Social Work Blog

I’m not suggesting that improv is a cure for depression or anxiety, or any mental health concern. This treatment offers hope for people who suffer from lingering effects of trauma, like anxiety or irrational thoughts that the event might re-occur. There’s a term in clinical social work called “meeting the clients where they’re at.”

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

Social Work Blog

Large hospital systems typically employ LMSW social workers because they have demonstrated clinical acumen and the ability to navigate practice scenarios. So why should students enter the realm of clinical social work in addiction? Well, for one, addiction is serious societal issue.

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Celebrate Black History Month with NASW Press: 15% Off Select Books and eBooks, February 1-29

Social Work Blog

Using firsthand accounts from 200 Black adolescents, Black Male Youth Raised in Public Systems: Engagement, Healing, Hope validates the fears, anxieties, and complexities of these youth.

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Don't Despise the Packaging.

American Board of Clinical Social Work

As a clinician, there’s been many a time when parents bring their son or daughter in for symptoms of anxiety, depression or suicide. She goes on to say that her daughter remains a great blessing to her.

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How Couple Therapy Creates Growth

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Anxiety often causes a conflict to be prematurely shut down — by either the couple or the therapist. Couple therapy creates growth by suspending the push to resolve a conflict until the triggers and words that propel the conflict are fully explored and understood.

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Scholarship Recipients 2022

University of Connecticut

It is an IOP dedicated to working with adolescents who are currently experiencing depression, anxiety, as well as school refusal, maladaptive eating, self-injury and suicidal ideation. I currently facilitate the middle school dialectical behavioral therapy group and this is where I’ve realized my passion for working with adolescents.