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Behavioral Health Officer (BHO) Rotation

Posted on January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 by armysocialwork

The BHO is hands down the most important training rotation you will complete during your internship, as you’ll learn that ins and outs of your job as a behavioral health officer. I elected to engage in this rotation for a full 12 months, so that I could squeeze out as much training as possible. This…

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Mind 🤝 Heart

Posted on June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 by armysocialwork

How do we drop what we are holding on to, if we refuse to look at our hands that grasp so tightly?  Have you ever noticed that you have more than one side? And, depending on the situation, how you oscillate between the two? One side is cautious as it constantly concerns itself with outcomes….

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Copacetic

Posted on January 1, 2022January 1, 2022 by armysocialwork

We’ve all been there before. After reading this sentence, stop for a moment and think about a song that “brings you back”. …Now come back. Think about where that song took you — what memory it transports you back to. Can you see, hear, and feel that moment? Isn’t it funny what music does to…

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Now

Posted on May 1, 2021 by armysocialwork

Barely the day started and it’s already six in the evening. Barely arrived on Monday and it’s already Friday. … and the month is already over. … and the year is almost over. … and already 40, 50 or 60 years of our lives have passed. … and we realize that we lost our parents,…

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Moving Past a Breakup. Moving on with Life.

Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 by armysocialwork

Moving on. One (arduous) step at a time. The final step being the one you don’t want to take the most:  Forgiveness. When your relationships end, no matter the context in which they collapsed, we enter the natural process of grief. As you cycle through anger, sadness, depression, denial, and feeling okay. But despite how…

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Feel. Deal. Heal.

Posted on February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 by armysocialwork

If there is anything that binds us all together, it’s that we have had something taken away from us. It’s the reality that we have all lost something extremely important to us.  Myself included. It’s been months, and I can still feel my hands tremble as I rest them on this keyboard.  My heart beats out…

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One Suicide Is Too Many | Article | The United States Army

Posted on February 29, 2020 by armysocialwork

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii (Sept. 4, 2019) – The number “22” rings a different bell for the one percent that raised their hand to the square to support and defend the constitution of the United States of America. The astonishing statistic published by the VA’s 2012 Suicide Data Report indicates that roughly 22 Veterans complete suicide…

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Annual road march honors fallen AMEDD Soldiers

Posted on February 29, 2020February 29, 2020 by armysocialwork

HONOLULU, Hawaii — As part of an annual tradition for the past eight years, on Nov. 15, the Desmond T. Doss Health Clinic (DDHC) hosted the 2019 Memorial Road March in honor of Lt. Col. David Cabrera and Staff Sgt. Christopher Newman. Cabrera, 41, of Abilene, Texas, was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Assistant…

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Shots.Over.Stigma

Posted on February 16, 2020February 18, 2020 by armysocialwork

We all have a story. How compelling the plot. 40 years ago (Name omitted) was drafted to war in Vietnam. He was a protester of peace, an advocate for change, and he became a victim to horrifying trauma.  He was just out of high school. Sitting against the wall, his head in his hands. He…

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Trauma & The Broken Puzzle

Posted on February 16, 2020February 16, 2020 by armysocialwork

Imagine your life is like a finished puzzle. It creates a whole picture where all the little pieces fit together right where they should. Imagine lightly holding this complete puzzle in your arms.  Now imagine that all the sudden something happens to you and you drop the puzzle on the ground. You frantically try to…

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