Practice Briefs

Both domestically and abroad, there are many children available for adoption (Intercountry Adoption, 2014). An essential therapeutic need for families who have adopted children is the development of healthy and secure relationships among family members.

Bullying is a form of interpersonal violence that is a barrier to learning and can lead to long term consequences that impact everyone involved including youth who bully, youth who are targets of bullying...

Psychosocial aspects of cancer depend largely on the cancer site, stage of the disease, and other contextual factors (e.g., presence of other chronic illnesses), but the psychosocial issues of cancer can be similar among different types of cancer.

“There is no universal definition of child sexual abuse. However, a central characteristic of any abuse is the dominant position of an adult that allows him or her to force or coerce a child into sexual activity.

According to the children’s bereavement estimation model (CBEM; Judi’s House/JAG Institute, 2018), it is expected that 1 in 15 children will experience the death of a parent or sibling by age 18 years.

Many children experience the loss or death of a parent, sibling, grandparent, and even a pet during their formative childhood years. Grief is a normal emotional reaction to loss and death.

Couples with a trauma history are those in which one or both partners have a history of trauma -that is unrelated to combat since there is a separate literature on combat trauma- and has led to significant traumatic symptom displays.

Chronic disease and chronic illness are terms that are often used interchangeably, but actually convey different meanings.

Consensual non-monogamy (CNM) comes in many forms. Polyamory refers to relationship structures in which partners are open to or engage in more than one loving relationship

Human migration is permanent or semi-permanent movement from one geographical location to another (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR], 2017).