EPICC Social Work

A new kind of community for you and your social work career

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New EPICC Headquarters & Management Team (EPICC falls under the Center for Clinical Social Workers umbrella): https://t.co/HtzX5pkmnE

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Providers- looking for #PTSD resources for specific populations like children, older adults, or families? Explore these resources: https://t.co/iYGmNhBqJE

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Physical Activity May Ward Off New Episodes of Depression https://t.co/euzxLOsokc #AssessmentandDiagnosis

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"Closure is for you, too. Social workers can be too humble sometimes. Let clients take the time to tell you about the impact you have made in their lives." https://t.co/aSNULYY6uz

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Cool! https://t.co/hfVOUrvjUL

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“We don’t expect an endocrinologist to not get diabetes; we don’t expect an oncologist to not get cancer.”https://t.co/Rfz1tRyBhO

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"It is important for us to allow people room to not only have refuge, but to have a space where they can show up as their authentic selves." https://t.co/g4JJStRJuV

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"Her role in the city department is to prevent repeated police calls by identifying and helping solve individual and family problems such as mental illness, drug addiction and homelessness." https://t.co/w1qJkUUcHn

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"Instead, many survey respondents said they’d like to see mental health professionals and social workers respond to these low-level calls." https://t.co/YbgxVdHzuy

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"Besides the group[s], [social worker] Glaude also floats into classrooms to watch how students are applying the skills during their school day, and she meets [...] with any student who asks for her help, or who a teacher flags as needing a check-in." https://t.co/LFmpWYXGor

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"[Social Worker] LaDue does what she always does — she takes it slow with survivors. She looks for signs of “fight, flight and freeze,” of the brain shutting down, and coaxes survivors back to a sense of safety through methods such as slow breathing." https://t.co/QAwBU9wW8D

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"Whenever you have a mentor in any given field, it looks like they have it all together. When your field is mental health, I think that people tend to forget that ... the[se] were people too, and we can have mental health concerns as well." https://t.co/AV5b8uAujM

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Interesting study about pet ownership and mental health! https://t.co/ZX2GirxaKS

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"The findings suggest that prevention efforts that focus on adult support can mitigate patterns of co-occurring violent behavior." Do you work with teens? https://t.co/TdBme9AT4I

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"Veterinary social workers interact with veterinarians and pet owners [...] in four areas: the link between human and animal violence; grief and loss; animal-assisted interaction; and compassion fatigue management." https://t.co/br1e4ZtmKM

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This Social Work student is doing her internship at a library! https://t.co/gwyvDL1tSk

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"Social workers can play a great role in mitigating the extent of mass trauma for those who survive." https://t.co/8F26UJnS7J

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"As contrasted with self-care outside work parameters, professional self-care is how we integrate and prioritize self-care as part of our work." https://t.co/0nFn6GyQRe

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September is Recovery Month! The theme for 2019 is: "Join the Voices for Recovery: Together We Are Stronger." https://t.co/anTPiC4mkc

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"As social workers, we sit with a lot of loss." https://t.co/FcsrIQT5sz