The Critical Role of Relationships in Integrated Health Care Delivery

• By: Victoria Stanhope, PhD, MSW S. Lala Straussner, PhD, LCSW New York University Silver School of Social Work
• October 1st, 2019
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Integrated care models are now increasingly being adopted across all medical settings, including behavioral health. Their potential to help health care systems attain the triple aim of improving service quality, promoting population health and reducing costs has led policy makers to incentivize...

The Experience of Workplace Stress and Compassion Satisfaction of Licensed Social Workers

• By: S. Lala A. Straussner, PhD, LCSW New York University Silver School of Social Work
• July 1st, 2019
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Employed in fast-paced, often poorly funded agencies and working with clients who have experienced significant traumas, many licensed social workers are believed to experience a high degree of stress. At the same time, many feel emotionally fulfilled by their work and experience “compassion...

Co-Occurring Disorders Among Social Workers

• By: S. Lala A. Straussner, PhD, LCSW Josey Madison, LCSW New York University Silver School of Social Work
• January 1st, 2018
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According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (SUD) affected an estimated 8.1 million adults or 3.7% of the total adult population in the United States....

Building a Race Conscious Research Agenda

• By: Robert Hawkins, MPA, MA, PhD New York University Silver School of Social Work
• January 1st, 2011
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People of color have held a long and often damaging relationship with mental health researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Throughout the colonized history of the United States, the mental health of Native Americans, Africans, Asians, Latinos, Pacific Islanders, and other groups of color...