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Can You Be a Social Worker with a Psychology Degree Easily?

Social Work Haven

You asked, can you be a social worker with a psychology degree? You also asked other burning questions … Whether you’re contemplating a career in these fields or simply curious about the intricate facets of human behaviour and social work, this is the place to start. The answer is yes.

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Couple Frame vs. Individual Frame

American Board of Clinical Social Work

In essence, we are treating what happens between the partners–not individual psychologies. The individual psychologies heal and change through the couple work. Perhaps they are reliving childhood history by desiring special attention from the therapist.

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Understanding vs. Succumbing to the System

American Board of Clinical Social Work

It then follows that the couple’s therapist must be very thorough, methodical and patient in understanding their system before any attempts to intervene are implemented. Prematurely confronting and attempting to change the system is a form of succumbing to its power.

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Reframing Repetition Compulsion

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Both of these definitions capture the felt sense that many of us therapists had through our training that repetition compulsion is essentially a negative process, although an inescapable part of human psychology that can be put to good use in a therapeutic relationship.

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Animals, Humans at Heart of Veterinary and Animal-Assisted Social Work

Social Work Blog

Now, the donkey is a co-therapist at the Barking C.A.A.T More than 200 NASW members have already signed up for the quarterly meetings to discuss the social work profession and how animals impact their clients. Psychology Today often references how Jofi had similar calming effects on Freuds patients. Ranch in Arvada, Colo.

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