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How to help children manage stress caused by California wildfires

CCRC

Whether theyre evacuated or simply hearing the sirens and smelling smoke, the experience can create feelings of anxiety and fear in children. PFA is an early intervention to support children, adolescents, adults, and families impacted by these types of events. The PFA Wallet Card provides a quick reminder of the core actions.

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The State of Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training and What it Means for Your Staff

Relias

The rates of anxiety and depression in the U.S. The multifaceted challenges that human services organizations have contended with over the last several years have only further accentuated the importance of strategic planning for crisis prevention and intervention training. What We Mean by Crisis Prevention and Intervention.

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Gio Iacono Studies Mindfulness Intervention for LGBTQIA+ Youth

University of Connecticut

a virtual mindfulness-based intervention collaboratively developed with LGBTQIA+ youth and community stakeholders. we saw improvements in depression, anxiety, and internalized oppression. Gio Iacono was awarded a UConn Office of the Vice President for Research grant of $50,000 to study Tuned In!, With Tuned In! “we

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Social Work Can Play a Critical Role in Pain Management

Social Work Blog

Interventions, such as motivational interviewing, and techniques, like going with resistance and offering empathy, validation and reflection, are important. This is where a person presents symptoms of depression, anxiety or insomnia, but their primary problem is chronic pain,” Kljajic says.

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Children in Poverty – Poverty and its Effects on Children

All For Kids

Additionally, poverty is associated with higher rates of mental health problems, including depression and anxiety, which can impede academic success and social development. Growing Up in Impoverished Neighborhoods Children in low-income families are often raised in under-resourced neighborhoods.

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Member Voices: My Journey to Clinical Social Work

Social Work Blog

Healing Justice Values Alongside Therapeutic Interventions. This was community care that in the Field, we might call an “intervention” at the meso level. By Violeta A. Donawa, LMSW. But for many of us, this was culture. Moral of the story? Even I, as a clinician, had limiting beliefs about what care could look like.

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NASW Member Voices: ADHD and Mindfulness

Social Work Blog

A study from Psychiatry International found possible benefits of mindfulness to help with self-compassion, quality of life, well being, depression, and anxiety. Mindfulness is a practice that encompasses a variety of mindfulness-based interventions.

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