Did you know that there are millions of people who are suffering from pain and other symptoms brought on by disorders that may appear to be purely physical but originate through unconscious emotions? A few days ago, I had the pleasure of attending the conference: When Stress Causes Pain: Innovative Treatments for Psychophysiologic Disorders that was […]
Free Webinars for Mental Health Professionals
Are you a social worker or other mental health professional who is interested in keeping up-to-date with the latest research on mental health? Listening and/or participating in various webinars, webcasts or podcasts is one way of doing so. Webinars (or webcasts) are essentially presentations given live online, via the web and teleconference. Webcasts are often […]
How to Use Two Acronyms to “Go for the Gold” on the LMSW Exam!
Would you like to know how to apply The Two Acronyms You Must Know for the LMSW Exam? The purpose of this post is to answer this very question and to provide a few additional helpful resources 🙂 Below you will find six sample LMSW exam questions as well as their respective answers. Each one […]
Key Take-Aways from NASW’s Trauma & Addictions Workshop
The New York City Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) provided a wonderful program with 34 different seminars about Trauma and Addictions Across the Life Cycle. The key take-aways from my day were as follows: I. An Overview of Trauma and Addictions Through the Life Cycle Prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder […]
The Box in Art Therapy: Inside and Outside of Self
Have you ever been asked to design a box to represent yourself? In one of my classes for art therapy for clinical social work, we were asked to do so. This is the fifth post in the art therapy** series. The outside of the box was to be decorated (painted, glued, drawn on etc) in […]