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Dealing with the Emotional Fallout of Physical Sports Injuries

Beautiful Voyager

Keagen Hadley , a doctor of occupational therapy specializing in psychological treatments such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). This experience made him acutely aware of the struggles associated psychologically post-ACL injury and how to overcome them with positive results. What kinds of people do you work with?

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‘Why we need to celebrate – not stigmatise – neurodiversity in social work’

Community Care

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).

OCD 59
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Depression & Perfectionism

Gateway Foundation

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.

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Clinical Philosophy

If you look up psychological resources on these you'll find zilch. But perhaps this is what you'd expect if your psychological theory has restricted itself to templates for understanding which deploy only representational notions: beliefs, constructs, reasoning problems, etc. No cogent explanations for them. Hence phobias.

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