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30Mar

What’s What Wednesday: Adolescent therapy and Clinical Social Work

Written by Diana Salazar. Posted in Blog, Clinical Social Workers

 

indvProviding therapy to adolescents, age 13-17, is one of the many populations that social workers commonly work with. According to the National Institute on Mental Illness (NAMI) about 4 million children and adolescents experience a mental health issue that significantly impairs them at home, school, or in their social groups. With all of the changes teenagers go through such as puberty, transitioning from middle school to high school, changes during these often volatile adolescent years may strain parent-adolescent relationships, especially when new behaviors go beyond experimentation and cause problems at school or home, or if emotional highs and lows persist and lead to experiences such as anxiety or depression. Therapy for adolescents is highly sought after by teens, parents, teachers, and school guidance counselors. Licensed Clinical Social Workers are able to provide the adolescents with coping strategies, education, empowerment, and determination to overcome social and personal difficulties.

23Mar

What’s What Wednesday: Clinical Social Workers and Child Therapy

Written by Diana Salazar. Posted in Blog, Clinical Social Workers

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One of the many roles of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker is to provide counseling to not only adults but children as well. Throughout the counseling process, a Clinical Social Worker will utilize various interventions, techniques, and theories in order to help their client reach their fullest potential. One effective technique used in Child Therapy is known as Sand Tray Therapy. Sand Tray Therapy is a special type of expressive therapy in which a tray of sand can be used to help the client create and explore an internal world.

Sand Tray Therapy has been recognized as a form of therapy since the early 1940’s and is widely used by Registered Play Therapists.  An excellent use for sand tray therapy can be for working with children experiencing complicated grief, trauma, depression, anxiety, family conflict, bullying, difficulty adjusting to life changes such as divorce, puberty, etc.  and many other challenges when words are difficult to process.

16Mar

What’s What Wednesday: Clinical Social Workers guide families through the counseling process

Written by Gustavo Gómez. Posted in Blog, Clinical Social Workers

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One of the many roles of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker is to provide counseling to not only individuals but also the family. Family therapy is a type of group psychotherapy that involves the treatment of two or more family members during the same session. This is a modality designed to identify and challenge family patterns that contribute and/or maintain behavior disorders, mental illness and in some cases substance abuse. In family therapy, the family unit collaborates engaging on discussions and problem solving sessions to attain family goals and ideally strengthen communication.

 

Licensed Clinical Social Workers guide families through the counseling process. The licensed clinical social worker acts as a neutral third party, helping family members share many things such as but not limited to their fears, concerns, disappointments and feelings in a non-confrontational way. The licensed clinical social worker often asks questions designed to help families to discover the underlying causes of their problems. 

 

This week Sunshine State Counseling Center has compiled a list of ways that Licensed Clinical Social Workers can assist families during the therapeutic process:

09Mar

What’s What Wednesday: Social Workers and Mental Illness

Written by Diana Salazar. Posted in Blog, Clinical Social Workers

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According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), nearly 1 in 4 Americans are affected by mental illness annually and 20% of them are teenagers. Mood disorders, such as depression, represent the third most common cause of hospitalization for both youth and adults aged 18 to 44. Moreover, adults with chronic mental illness are at an increased risk for chronic medical illnesses and die on average 25 years earlier.

One of the roles of a Social Worker, is to educate and treat mental illness. Licensed Clinical Social Workers have completed the required training and supervised experience to provide clients enduring mental illness with the appropriate clinical treatment, hopefully in collaboration with medical doctors, psychiatrists, nurses and case managers.

02Mar

What What’s Wednesday: How can a social worker help my family?

Written by Diana Salazar. Posted in Blog, Clinical Social Workers

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The Month of March is a special month for Sunshine State Counseling Center as we are Celebrating “Social Work”. The National Association of Social Work (NASW) have themed the month:”Social Work: Forging Solutions out of Challenges”. Today, we are embracing the job of a social worker by listing five ways social workers could help your family.