Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Eight minutes is all it takes to help us better train and educate social workers who serve clients who may be at risk for substance-related problems, including substance use disorders and substance-exposed pregnancies. Your responses will be completely anonymous.

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Nnatasha Tracy

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Believe me, when I tell you bipolar disorder can absolutely feel like a punishment from God (or the universe, or bad karma, etc.) It doesn't even matter if you believe in any particular god; bipolar disorder can feel like a punishment nonetheless.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Eight minutes is all it takes to help us better train and educate social workers who serve women, families, and others who may be at risk for alcohol-related problems, including alcohol use disorders and alcohol-exposed pregnancies. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Prevention Program.

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Swhelper

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Both moderate and strenuous exercise alleviate symptoms of anxiety, even when the disorder is chronic, a study led by researchers at the University of Gothenburg shows.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

Studies show women are more likely to experience problems such as alcohol use disorder, liver damage and certain cancers sooner and at lower levels of drinking than men do. And alcohol-exposed pregnancies can lead to a range of lifelong physical, behavioral, and learning problems, known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs).

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Social Work Blog

MAY 3, 2022

By Diana Ling, MA, Program Manager and Leslie Sirrianni, LCSW, Senior Research Project and Training Coordinator; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin. . American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Prevention Program.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Associate Professor Meg Paceley led a study examining the relationship between family and community environments for LGBTQ+ youth and disordered eating behaviors. The researchers assessed disordered eating behaviors related to attempting to control one’s weight (taking diet pills, fasting, purging) and binge eating.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992 after I faced disciplinary action while a graduate counseling student because I had disabling symptoms of psychosis. I was no longer allowed to take graduate courses at this university. Major Depressive Episode In December of 2021, I had a major depressive episode.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Everything feels different, like you’ve seen the world and the universe for the first time in your life. It feels like you are one with the universe. The colours of a painting. Every good feeling felt multiplied by 100. I cried my eyes out when I saw it. I was so sorry for myself that I had lived my whole life in such darkness.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Those who are pregnant or can become pregnant also risk alcohol-exposed pregnancy and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that may affect up to 1 in 20 school children nationwide. Every day matters.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It first appears in the 2013 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders, 5 th Edition (DSM-5). The DSM is a compilation and classification of mental disorders as determined by a committee of psychiatrists under the American Psychiatric Association. They will just in a sense, live it.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

The world’s first “molecular disease,” sickle cell disease (SCD) has captivated the medical community’s attention as a multisystem blood disorder linked to abnormalities in one molecule: hemoglobin. NOTE on NASW journals : NASW journals are co-published by NASW Press and Oxford University Press.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 2, 2025

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a condition where a person has difficulties regulating their senses within their environment. Although more than half of all the diagnostic criteria of disorders in the DSM 5 describe symptoms of SPD, the APA refuses to acknowledge SPD as a disorder. Ruth Pearlman, LCSW, LICSW, M.ED

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Swhelper

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The University at Albany has been awarded nearly $1 million for the creation of a five-year, comprehensive program aimed at preventing HIV infections and substance use disorders among students.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Article by Diana Ling, MA, Program Manager; and Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH, Senior Health Strategist; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin. How often do you talk with clients about their alcohol use? How much drinking is too much?

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University of Connecticut

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The CT Council on Problem gambling estimates approximately 70,000 Connecticut adults meet the clinical criteria for problem gambling disorder. Problem gambling is often times under-assessed or a component of an undiagnosed co-occurring disorder. diagnostic criteria for disordered gambling. why do people gamble.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

ACEs can be understood as traumatic events that occur during one’s childhood, and the number of ACEs that an individual experiences has been correlated to increased physical and psychological health disorders. Study authors: Kyunghee Lee, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Michigan State University.

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Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 28, 2024

Having suffered with symptoms of bipolar 2 disorder for over fifteen years, my hope in making this piece for See Change is to give people some understanding of how it feels in the different phases of this complex mental health illness. During the depressive phases of my bipolar disorder I felt like my whole self had completely shut down.

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Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 28, 2024

Having suffered with symptoms of bipolar 2 disorder for over fifteen years, my hope in making this piece for See Change is to give people some understanding of how it feels in the different phases of this complex mental health illness. During the depressive phases of my bipolar disorder I felt like my whole self had completely shut down.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Prior to joining the UConn School of Social Work, Lawrence was a research fellow at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the Department of Pediatrics, where she led quantitative and qualitative research efforts to identify disparities among youth.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Alcohol-exposed pregnancies may also lead to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that affects an estimated 2-5% of schoolchildren in the U.S.

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 1, 2022

Addressing the challenges that families face today, including socio-economic disparities, racism, substance misuse and behavioral health disorders, requires an evidence-informed approach that is grounded in social change through the lens of advancing equity. Jody Levison-Johnson, president and CEO of Social Current.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Helping clients discuss their alcohol use can also reduce the risk of prenatal alcohol exposure, a leading preventable cause of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Here are some common questions and answers that can help you discuss alcohol with clients.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

As the ABA Journal story explains: Lauren Hackney has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder that can cause memory loss, and Andrew Hackney has some resultant damage from a stroke. Robyn Powell of the University of Oklahoma School of Law and Prof. That’s why the Justice Department is involved.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Due to gender differences in body structure and chemistry, women experience more severe health risks from drinking compared to men, including blackouts , liver disease , faster progression of alcohol use disorder , and certain cancers – even when they consume less alcohol.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

I approached Nick about creating a new group for Veterans diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and he was immediately supportive. Cloud State University in Minnesota. His irreverent style and humor along with his ability to draw others in, were a few qualities that I knew I needed to absorb.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

. ● Stateline reports on something some in the medical profession are doing about it: Some states and hospital systems have updated their policies on drug testing for pregnant women and newborns, aiming to better support patients’ treatment and recovery from substance use disorder and combat racial disparities in testing and reporting. ●

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent disorders for Black young adults (ages 18 to 29) in the United States. Louis NOTE on NASW journals : NASW journals are co-published by NASW Press and Oxford University Press. Louis NOTE on NASW journals : NASW journals are co-published by NASW Press and Oxford University Press.

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Gateway Foundation

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Addiction is a universal problem, impacting 19 million people in the United States alone. Yet, substance use disorders affect men and women differently, especially the progression from initial use to dependence and finally to treatment. This psychological phenomenon is known as the telescoping effect.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 5, 2024

Watkins’ research focuses on how gender differences and health disparities influence the mental health of Black Americans, with the aim of increasing what we know about mental disorders and how they impact the health and health behaviors of Black men. Watkins is also a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor.

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Relias

JANUARY 23, 2024

Maternal mental health disorders can have serious consequences, such as impaired mother-infant bonding, poor child development, and increased risk of death from suicide or other causes. The EPDS can also detect other mental disorders, such as anxiety, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992 after I faced disciplinary action while a graduate counseling student because I had disabling symptoms of psychosis. I was no longer allowed to take graduate courses at this university. Major Depressive Episode In December of 2021, I had a major depressive episode.

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Community Care

MAY 20, 2024

At the moment there is a patchy picture of acceptance for neurodivergent social workers, those with conditions – or neurotypes – such as autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

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Beautiful Voyager

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

What I have is called Bipolar Disorder, which, by definition, is a mental condition marked by alternating periods of elation and depression. There, I got to gain an enormous about of knowledge about having bipolar disorder, what it really meant, and how to manage it. It is not something easily explained. Not for one second.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

There are plenty of Rural kids coming from Middle Class families that drop into poverty because they grew up w/ Character Disordered Parenting and because of it, they grew up character disordered. Or the mothers, so desperate to be loved by anyone take in Character Disordered Men who are only interested in sexually abusing her child.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 27, 2022

Faye Mishna from University of Toronto and Prof. Sarah Banks from Durham University. Speaker: Faye Mishna (University of Toronto). Faye Mishna (PhD, MSW) joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto in 1999. She is cross appointed to the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 10, 2025

million) have diagnosed anxiety For children aged 3-17 years with anxiety, more than 1 in 3 also have behavior problems (37.9%) and about 1 in 3 also have depression (32.3%) Among children living below 100% of the federal poverty level, more than 1 in 5 (22%) had a mental, behavioral, or developmental disorder. What causes anxiety in kids?

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