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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Careers

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Careers

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a type of psychotherapy that takes a practical and tangible approach to solving issues. CBT is designed to help people change the way they think and the way they behave in order to help ease or even solve someone's issues. It is used in a wide variety of cases including things like depression or relationship issues, but its effectiveness stems from its ability to help people think about how their attitudes and beliefs are affecting their behavior. Once that is understood, it can be used to help affect change in that behavior.

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Community Social Worker Careers

Community Social Worker Careers

Community social work is an subcategory of social work that is focused on larger social groups and even communities as a whole. For example, community social workers are responsible for such things like policy creation and analysis, social planning, community organizing, lobbying, event-planning and much more. The importance of thinking about the community and its health as a whole is an important but relatively new idea. Community social workers primarily are tasked with creating different programs and strategies for promoting community health, raising awareness about its importance, and implementing ideas to improve that health.

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Social Work Administration Careers

Social Work Administration Careers

Social work administrators are responsible for looking at the industry from a macro perspective and while actual social workers are responsible for dealing with individual patients, administrators are often responsible for building the business behind that care and treatment. The administrators are responsible for everything from budget planning to fundraising and even creating the processes for offering care and support to patients. The administrators play a more behind-the-scenes role, but without them, it would be difficult to find competent and high-quality elder care facilities, medical clinics and much more.

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Employment Outlook & Career Guidance for Mental Health Social Workers

Employment Outlook & Career Guidance for Mental Health Social Workers
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), approximately one in four adults, or nearly 62 million people in the US alone, experience mental illness every year.  Nearly 20 percent of all youth, ages 13-18 experience severe mental issues.  Yet, nearly 60 percent of these adults, and one-half of the youth will not receive…
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Positive Psychology Careers

Positive Psychology Careers

It sounds campy on the surface but Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that impact individual and community success. Positive Psychologists work under the belief that people want to lead fulfilling and impactful lives in order to make their personal experiences better.  The idea is that understanding positive emotions such as love and happiness and contentment or positive ideals like justice, peace, and work ethic will help the community and people within it thrive. So much of psychology focuses on human suffering, but positive psychologists believe understanding human strengths is equally as important to enhancing the quality of life.

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Cultural Psychology Careers

Cultural Psychology Careers

Cultural psychologists are part of a new frontier of the industry as psychologists learn to study the importance of cultural meanings and practices and how they influence both individual and group human psyches. As the world becomes more culturally diverse and intertwined, understanding that certain groups do or do not show the same tendencies under different social and cultural conditions can tell these psychologists a great deal about how the mind works. Most cultural psychologists work in academia as the nascent sub-field lends itself to academic research more so than proactive practice, but many universities have begun offering cultural psychology education programs to help uncover and understand controversial cultural differences in psychological processes.

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Employment Outlook & Career Guidance for Public Health Social Workers

Employment Outlook & Career Guidance for Public Health Social Workers
Public health social workers – sometimes also referred to as medical social workers – help people of all ages in needy communities face the many challenges in their lives, such as dealing with an illness, or with the adoption of a child. Public health social workers work closely with diverse populations, such as the elderly,…
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Top 10 Undergraduate Sports Psychology Degree Programs

Top 10 Undergraduate Sports Psychology Degree Programs
Sports Psychology is an interesting branch of the Psychology tree for a number of reasons. But it is most interesting because the psychological and educational community can’t agree on how to treat the discipline. There currently isn’t a hard or fast or even agreed upon educative model for those interested in undergraduate and graduate training…
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The Psychology of Media Censorship

The Psychology of Media Censorship
Patrick Mattimore has a lot to say on the subject of censorship.  He also has the education and the professional adeptness to back it up.  Raised in the United States, Patrick is now retired and living in Pattaya, Thailand. Below are some of Patrick Mattimore’s thoughts regarding the psychological effects of censorship. What motivated you…
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