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Supporting Children Through a Disaster

Creative Play Therapist

As a trauma therapist, Ive seen how community-wide events like these can disrupt a childs world. Processing your strongest feelings with other adults or a therapist can prevent your child from feeling overwhelmed or like they need to take care of you. At the same time, be mindful of when and how you express your emotions.

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Strengthening the Adoptive Parent-Child Bond with Internal Family Systems (IFS): A Personal and Professional Perspective

Social Work Blog

The Hidden Challenges of Adoptive Parenting As an adoptive mother of a daughter from China, adopted at age three, and a therapist and Associate Professor teaching practice classes, I have observed firsthand the unique challenges faced by adoptive parents. Developmental Psychology, 55 (5), 919-932. Grotevant & McDermott, 2020).

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Social Workers of TikTok

Social Work Blog

Social workers are now reaching people from across the world, unlike ever before,” said O’Brien, a therapist at a women’s and family counseling service in Brooklyn. A doctor of psychology, she documented the publishing journey of her book, “Your Unconscious Is Showing: Take Control of Life with the 12 Steps of Consciousness.”

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Teaching abuse: how some adoptive parents are being taught to maltreat their children

Child Welfare Monitor

Other techniques that have been recommended by attachment therapists include keeping the child at home (even counseling home schooling), barring social contact with others, assigning hard labor or repetitive tasks, and requiring prolonged motionless sitting. .

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What is Mindbody Science?

Beautiful Voyager

I want to know why the therapists I saw didnt know. Biopsychosocial medicine, the broader model that mindbody science falls under, focuses on the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors in the study of health and illness. 2015: I dont care why I didnt know. At least I have Lexapro now.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

According to the story: Of 650,000 children and vulnerable adults in state, foster, and church care between 1950 and 2019 in a country that today has a population of just 5 million nearly a third endured physical, sexual, verbal or psychological abuse. Many more were exploited or neglected, the report said.

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How to Become a Trauma-Informed Organization

Relias

Train staff to promote collaboration at every level of the organization between managers and supervisees, between therapists and clients, and between the organization and external stakeholders. Collaboration and mutuality Engage all stakeholders, including clients and all staff, in the process of implementing trauma-informed care.