How do we define "psychological treatment" and what necessitates a clear definition? A recent article by @dtolin.bsky.social et al. in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice describes the work of a task force, commissioned by APA's @scpdiv12.bsky.social, to define this term https://bit.ly/422ZWp3

Brilliant and courageous.

OPINION: Federal cuts put addiction treatment and recovery at risk I vividly remember growing up and my grandmother warning me to be careful with alcohol — because addiction “runs in our family.” She wasn’t wrong. For generations, both sides of

New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine.

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Walmart Is Still Putting Ebenezer Scrooge to Shame Infamous for its starvation wages, Walmart just posted staggering first-quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers c...

70% of Americans who receive food stamps and Medicaid work full time, with Walmart one of the worst offenders as the country’s single largest employer.

Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize corporations who get away with paying poverty wages, especially not while raking in record profits.

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

This is inconceivable. We are entering a dark phase of American public health in which many, many people suffer unnecessarily from vaccine-preventable illnesses.

We need to keep fighting, sharing stories of harm from the front lines & disseminating data. #MedSky
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Sound about right.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Reposting this important critique of van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, because I should have tagged the author @eminietfeld.bsky.social and @motherjones.com #therapistsky #psychscisky

Private Health Insurance companies should not exist.

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A tweet by Asha Rangappa criticizes the incoming Trump administration by saying they are sending people with big problems, labeling them as rapists, alcoholics, and criminals, with a sarcastic assumption that some might be good people.

Slow. Clap.