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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.

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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. The DSM-V notes that pain disorders relate to psychological factors. Always start where the client is, she suggests, and validate their feelings.

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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

Recently, though, in a brush with police not trained in Crisis intervention, he is currently incarcerated, awaiting a bed in a jail diversion program. I had also begun to study positive psychology and found advice to be accurate and insightful but also often overly complex and devoid of humor. The wait is long, but there is hope.

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Psychologist vs Social Worker: The Differences You Need to Know

Social Work Haven

Well, it is vital to note the difference between psychology and social work because they both seek to help individuals in different ways. Whereas psychology focuses primarily on understanding and exploring the inner workings of people’s minds, social work focuses more on helping people with their daily life issues.

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How to Get Started with Wellbeing

Social Work Haven

Generalist Intervention Model: Complete Guide Generalist Intervention Model: Complete Guide The Generalist Intervention Model (GIM) is an approach to working with individuals, families, and communities that is based on a recognition of the interconnections of human systems.

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Play It Again, Seratonin

A Splintered Mind

Good music can boost serotonin levels in the brain, dramatically alleviating depression or anxiety. Dr. Alice Cash who uses music for therapy says her “Healing has to do with decreasing symptoms [of anxiety or depression], physically, physiologically, psychologically, emotionally, or spiritually.”

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You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication?

Social Work Haven

This can include providing advice, support and guidance to people in the community who are struggling with mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety. Monitor interventions Social workers monitor interventions that have been put in place to ensure they are helping the person and their family.