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DfE makes huge cut to Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund payments

Community Care

Therapies funded include creative and physical therapies, family therapy, psychotherapy, parent training and therapeutic life story work. So there has to be an assessment process. And the most complex children – the ones who are highest risk – get match funding and they are suddenly plummeted into 3,000.

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

Clinical Philosophy

It's from a recent blogpost by Jon Frederikson ; Frederikson is a particularly lucid and thoughtful exponent of ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy). The other professionals who I'm most aware of embodying it are what we might call master school teachers and master social workers. And now the example.

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Your Comprehensive Guide to Kids and Anxiety

Beautiful Voyager

Kids want to please their parents and dont feel like theyre enough, says Dr. Patti Ashley , psychotherapist, author, and creator of a psychotherapy approach called Authenticity Architecture. Then theres also chronic fear because of mass shootings, especially in schools. This causes lots of anxiety. Higher expectations, Ashley says.

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Celebrate Your Graduate—Save 30% Off Select Books!

Social Work Blog

Drawing on his 40+ years of meditation practice, experience as a Vietnam veteran, and decades of psychotherapy work with his clients, Ray Scurfield demonstrates how to introduce meditation into treatment for clients with posttraumatic stress disorder or everyday stress.

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Depression & Perfectionism

Gateway Foundation

Students are especially at risk of experiencing depression, perfectionism, and substance use disorder in school. Psychotherapy can also help people identify their harsh self-beliefs to change them over time. When addiction enters the picture, the spiral of perfectionism and depression can worsen.

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

Social Work Haven

Clinician – this involves providing direct clinical services such as counseling, psychotherapy and crisis intervention. The model uses an ecological perspective to identify multiple levels of influence in client’s lives, including but not limited to: family, peers, school/work, community, and policy.

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Concerns over future of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund with resourcing unconfirmed

Community Care

It can fund a range of services , including therapeutic parenting training, arts therapies, psychotherapy and extensive life story work. They also noted improvements in family functioning and high levels of parent and carer satisfaction.