Social Work Blog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Social workers help patients eliminate psychosocial stressors such as homelessness, loss of job, divorce, and loneliness that may have led to their use of substances. Additional Resources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Recovery Is for Everyone: Understanding Treatment of Substance Use Disorders.
Social Work Blog
JUNE 1, 2022
One can be diagnosed with a substance use disorder if he or she meets a certain criterion determined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5). Methadone is a treatment for opiate use disorder and has been around since the 1950s. What are Opiates? Getty Images.
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Social Work Blog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Social workers help patients eliminate psychosocial stressors such as homelessness, loss of job, divorce, and loneliness that may have led to their use of substances. Additional Resources Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Recovery Is for Everyone: Understanding Treatment of Substance Use Disorders.
All For Kids
FEBRUARY 17, 2024
Adoptee Potential Identity Crises Adopted children often face what is known as an identity crisis , where they question their sense of self and their place in the world, according to Kendra Cherry, a psychosocial rehabilitation specialist and author of the “Everything Psychology Book.”
Relias
JUNE 28, 2023
The main purpose is to effectively address and treat co-occurring and chronic mental health, substance use, and medical disorders. This gives the mental health practitioner the opportunity for a longer conversation about the patient’s psychosocial history and can lay the groundwork for continued mental healthcare.
Clinical Philosophy
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them. As a conceptual tool to evaluate claims that mental disorders are located 'in' individuals, Cooper offers us the kettle analogy: 'How in general do we locate a problem when a complex system fails to function?
Social Work Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Research indicates that children have better outcomes, including placement stability and reduced occurrence of mental health disorders, when placed with kinship providers. [3] 3] When children are placed with relatives or fictive kin, they can live with someone they know which provides relational connections and stability.
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