Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

SAMHSA defines recovery as a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives and strive to reach their full potential. Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Did anyone else in my family experience mental health issues? One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. Like Thompson, they filled the day with activities that provided structure and predictability, the two things I needed as much as medication and psychotherapy.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Marisa Markowtiz, LMSW, CASAC-T The National Institute of Mental Health defines specific phobia as an intense, irrational fear that poses little or no actual danger. Exposure therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy are evidence based practices that mental health counselors use to treat phobias.

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Gateway Foundation

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Perfectionism personality traits aren’t considered a disorder but rather a vulnerability factor that increases a person’s chance of developing depression and other psychological problems like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, and even addiction. Social Disconnection.

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Gateway Foundation

MARCH 6, 2023

struggle with mental health, but less than half receive the help they need. Mental health problems often result in behaviors like substance misuse, sleep problems, emotional outbursts, weight or appetite changes, and isolation. Some common warning signs and symptoms of substance use disorder include: Bloodshot eyes.

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Beautiful Voyager

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You can look into the following: Cognitive Behavior Therapy Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy or talk therapy that uses strategies to change a patient’s unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a psychotherapy that is based on CBT.

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Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit American shores in early 2020, mental health experts have worried about its potential effects on those they serve — and with good reason. Measures like social distancing necessary to preserve our physical health took a toll on our mental well-being. Substance Use Disorders and COVID-19.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

the amount the provider would expect to charge if the provider intended to bill a health care plan directly for such item or service. Items and services”: All encounters, procedures, medical tests provided or assessed in connection with the provision of health care. Compliance Steps.

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Clinical Philosophy

APRIL 10, 2023

I was introduced to Schopenhauer's fable of the porcupines by Deborah Luepnitz in her lovely work on the psychotherapy of intimacy and its dilemmas. Schopenhauer, it seems to me, likely had - poor chap - what today we'd call a personality disorder. He was sent away to live with a relative from the age of 9-11.

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