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Trauma-informed Care Creates a Path Forward

Shelter, Inc

Shelter’s professional staff provides free trauma-informed clinical care to children who have experienced trauma so they can heal, build trust, and create a path forward. Sylvie Colon, a Clinical Therapist at Shelter, works with young people who have faced extremely difficult situations.

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Addressing Equity in Schools: Youth Participatory Action Research and Transformative Social and Emotional Learning during COVID-19

Social Work Blog

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and rise in racial injustices signaled the need to engage students in macro-level interventions to maximize their contributions to their schools, communities, and society. Johnson, ACSW, LCSW , clinical associate professor, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois Chicago. Chicago, IL.

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Helping Schools Motivate Parents to Participate in their Child’s Autism Education Plan

Relias

Engel works as a clinical psychologist who specializes in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She has worked as a school psychologist in public schools in New York and as a clinical psychologist in various clinic settings. To learn how to do this, we spoke with Cheryl N. Engel, Ph.D. Communication.

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Self-Care, Self-Defense: Therapist Says Jiu-Jitsu Hobby Teaches Power of Consent

Social Work Blog

By Alison Laurio Ryan Tolman is a clinical social worker in private practice who specializes in anxiety and stress, and sees clients online and in person in his Bellingham, Wash., Tolman went back to school at age 37 to earn his MSW and said he became interested in mixed martial arts after watching matches on TV. “I

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11 Great Benefits of Being a Social Worker: Making a Positive Impact

Social Work Haven

Whether it’s choosing a role in school settings with built-in breaks, pursuing private practice for greater scheduling autonomy, exploring flexible schedules in community organisations, or engaging in contract work, social workers have options. Social workers can tailor their career path to align with their desired work-life balance.

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What to Expect When a Child Discharges From a Children’s Psychiatric Hospital

KVC

School professionals and other advocates in the child’s life can support the child by creating moments for meaningful connection. Annmarie Arensberg, LCSW, LSCSW, is the Director of Clinical Operations at KVC Hospitals, a network of nonprofit psychiatric hospitals and residential treatment centers serving youth ages 6 to 18.

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From Living with OCD to Working with it

Beautiful Voyager

The author Natalia Aniela Aíza My journey as an OCD therapist (and what I have yet to learn). By middle school, my compulsive cutting had morphed into stealing. If I put my therapist hat on, I am able to identify my current OCD as “ego-syntonic.” Compulsions are some of my earliest childhood memories.

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