Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A study from Psychiatry International found possible benefits of mindfulness to help with self-compassion, quality of life, well being, depression, and anxiety. This trick can be used in a non-clinical setting, or when a client is in a state of distress. One such tool is the acronym STOP: stop, take a breath, observe, and proceed.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5). People experiencing a nervous breakdown may show symptoms that are similar to clinical depression.

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Beautiful Voyager

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A meta-analytic study from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry analyzed the prevalence and characteristics of self-harm in adolescents across 41 countries. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a psychotherapy that is based on CBT.

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Clinical Philosophy

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

A classic CBT formulation of that panic which is met with in panic disorder - a formulation owed to David Clark - looks like this: The idea, I believe, is that we're to read the arrows as meaning 'and then this leads to.' For clinical purposes the model is helpful. We might say that they're perhaps intended as 'causal' relations.

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