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September is National Recovery Month: Supporting the Journey to Recovery 

Social Work Blog

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Disrupting Stigma: How Understanding, Empathy, and Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Families Affect by Substance Use and Mental Disorders.

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psychotherapy's moral bite: on deactivating the projection of will

Clinical Philosophy

So, what I don't mean is moral shrillness, or moralising, or a failure of empathy, or an absence of the light touch, or an inability to take oneself less than seriously (i.e. It's from a recent blogpost by Jon Frederikson ; Frederikson is a particularly lucid and thoughtful exponent of ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy).

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September is National Recovery Month: Supporting the Journey to Recovery 

Social Work Blog

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Disrupting Stigma: How Understanding, Empathy, and Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Families Affect by Substance Use and Mental Disorders.

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How Improv theater is like therapy | NASW Member Voices

Social Work Blog

And, improv teachers and therapists cultivate an environment of support, empathy, validation, and a space to improve skills. There is a shared idea that it’s ok to be vulnerable and experience an array of emotions. Both disciplines aim for presence of mind and spirit. I can speak to therapeutic concepts, but I’m not an improv expert.

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The Delicate Balancing of the Couples Therapist

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Most forms of psychotherapy require that the therapist perform a “delicate balancing act” between competing forces. The competent therapist deftly moves back and forth between the present and past to stimulate understanding, empathy, and permanent integration of childhood wounds and traumas.

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19 Essential Social Work Practice Skills You Should Work on Refining Now

Social Work Haven

Empathy and Compassion 7.Cultural Empathy and Compassion, 7. Empathy and Compassion A key part of social work is being able to understand and relate to the feelings of those they are working with. This requires empathy, or the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and see things from their perspective.

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The Only Guide You Need to Become Your Own Therapist

Social Work Haven

Unfortunately, not everyone has the opportunity to get professional help and go through psychotherapy with a specialist. A Psychologist will help us realise things we have-not considered, they offer us techniques that help us cope with challenging situations and emotions. This is also a personal preference.