Anxiety and Psychosomatic Symptoms in Schools

• By: Eve McCoog, LCSW Sara Battaglia, LSW First Children Services
• April 24th, 2024
• adolescents, anxiety, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, resiliency, school-based interventions, Spring 2024 Issue
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Psychosomatic symptoms are the physical and physiological experiences caused by mental or emotional conflict or distress, such as anxiety. Often, they are dismissed as being imagined or exaggerated, likely because they are part of someone’s internal experience. It is important to note...

Helping Families Cope with Serious Mental Illness: Maternal vs Social Work Instincts

• By: Ruth Colón-Wagner, LMSW VCS Inc.
• July 19th, 2023
• healing, hope, parenting, recovery, resiliency, serious mental illness, Summer 2023 Issue, trauma
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I am a Social Worker. I am also a mom of an adult child with SMI, specifically bi-polar disorder. My child is 23 and I pray that she welcomes God into her life. That’s the mom in me talking. As a social worker, I want her to get a job, find a great partner who will love her, and become as...