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The Impact of Collective Trauma and How Behavioral Health Organizations Can Help

Relias

Leia Salzman, PhD, LCSW, from the Tulane University School of Social Work, describes collective trauma as “an event, or series of events that shatters the experience of safety for a group, or groups, of people.” Collective trauma occurs when this type of event happens to an entire community.

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Social Work on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (Part Two)

Social Work Blog

Since July of 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation have partnered in this initiative with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work. As part of a national response to the pandemic, Connect to End COVID-19 is a $3.3 2013) and over three times higher than the 7.6%

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psychosis, violence, and the fear of madness

Clinical Philosophy

31 The reference (31) given here is to a paper on the link between violence and mental health (and drug and alcohol use ) which found that ' if a person has severe mental illness without substance abuse and history of violence, he or she has the same chances of being violent during the next 3 years as any other person in the general population.'