Behavioral Health Policy & News

Deany Laliotis, LICSW, is an internationally recognized trainer, consultant, and psychotherapist who teaches EMDR therapy using a relational approach to treating complex trauma. She is the founder and director of The Center for Excellence in EMDR Therapy.

Social workers are major stakeholders in almost every aspect of responding to the opioid epidemic.

Becoming homeless is a major risk for those with a mental illness. The design of a community of tiny homes near Pittsboro, North Carolina, is based on research by Dr. Amy Wilson and with the UNC School of Social Work on people with serious mental illness that explored how a physical space can contribute to or take away from a person's mental health.

Many young adults, facing the largest student loan burden in history, report depression, anxiety and an overhanging sense of dread.

Social workers will likely play an outsized role in realizing the potential and minimizing the risks of the psychedelic renaissance. According to SAMHSA, the National Association of Social Workers and the Association of Social Work Boards, the more than 250,000 clinical social workers within America’s health and human service systems are the largest group of mental health providers in the nation — more than psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychiatric nurses combined.

Social workers are on the frontlines of America's mental health crisis. But social workers need help in addressing the crush in demand for mental health services.