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CBT for Kids: How You Can Improve the Mental Health of Younger Clients

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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one method that can help kids and teens in your community in need of mental health care get the attention they deserve. What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)? CBT is generally short-term and goal-oriented, focusing on helping clients deal with specific problems.

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NASW Member Voices: In Search of Transgenerational Office Space

Social Work Blog

We face each other and enter into a verbal dance I like to refer to as the “Acronym Tango,” (IFS, CBT, DBT, EMDR, EFT, cha-cha-cha). As a Systems Therapist, I welcome all attendees to the session, (in person or in absentia). My job, as her therapist, is to provide crowd control. Sometimes clients politely decline the invitation.

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NASW Member Voices: Eclectics, Rise Up!

Social Work Blog

I suggested we talk a bit about the issue that prompted his search for a therapist and maybe we could explore if I might be helpful. He had never been in therapy and wanted to establish trust by vetting therapists who had credentials and used language with which he was familiar. Then, we talked. Makes sense with one caveat.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

Experts agree that regardless of culture, a "nervous breakdown" means that the individual is no longer able to do his " normal functioning " due to extreme emotional or psychological distress or a psychiatric condition. As the World Health Organization (WHO) points out, mental health goes beyond the absence of mental disorders.

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Why Did It Take Me So Long To Accept My Mental Health Medication?

Beautiful Voyager

So, I used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, my daily mantra and meditation to deal with them. The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. Seems like the old patterns and negative automatic thoughts came back in force.