A social worker’s role is to help individuals, families, and communities overcome social and economic challenges. They provide support, counseling, and advocacy services to those in need, often working with vulnerable populations such as children, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. Social workers also work with government agencies and community organizations to develop and implement programs that promote social justice and equality.

What Can a Social Worker Do for Me?
 Talk to all health care professionals involved with your mental health challenges including family members sometimes.
 Put together a care plan: best methods of recovery tailored to you.
 Most mental health social workers are trained to counsel on some minor issues.
 Educate on mental health in general, and the importance of treating these issues.
 Help find treatment facilities and in-patient mental health care centers, if necessary.
 Help attend to daily needs (i.e., help you find and apply for certain types of assistance, such as employment and income benefits or disability benefits).
 Monitor your progress and determine whether your treatment plan is working for you.
 Help you find different doctors or facilities that can better cater to your needs. Where Can I Find a Social Worker?
 Hospitals.
 Psychiatric Hospitals.
 Mental Health Facilities.
 Community Health Centers.
 Rehabilitation Centers.
 Schools.
 Detention Centers.
 Government Agencies.

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Therapy is a type of treatment that is common in both physical as well as mental health disorders. To differentiate from physical therapy, it is called psychotherapy when emotional and behavioral problems are being treated. Though it is the therapist who does the talking with the patient during psychotherapy, the feelings or the emotions displayed by the patient while talking about their problems give lots of clues to the therapist about the root problems of the patient.

What Can a Therapist Do for Me?
 Offer you treatment.
 Teach you ways of coping with your feelings and ways to cope with troublesome situations.
 Helps you deal with feelings of anger, depression, guilt, anxiety, shyness, etc.

Where Can I Find a Therapist?
 Private therapy practices, including online therapy options.
 Group therapy practices.
 Hospitals.
 Nursing Homes.
 Pain Clinics.
 Rehabilitation Clinics.
 Community and Mental Health Centers.
 Correctional Facilities.

Stay tuned for next month when we explore mental health roles within the public health care system in Manitoba.

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This article is part one of a three-part series exploring mental health support options in Manitoba. This article focuses on the various trained mental health care roles and what each can do for you. Part two explores roles within the public health care system. Finally, part three discusses the role of peer support within the mental health care system.

Bone mineral density (BMD) testing is crucial in assessing the risk of developing osteoporosis or fractures. Women and men over 65 and those with risk factors for fracture should get a BMD test. Combining BMD tests with clinical risk factors can determine fracture risk and inform treatment decisions. Protect your ability to live your best life with Echolight™, the new ultrasound bone density measurement scanner that takes 15 minutes to do. First time in Manitoba. You have the option of either having the scan in our office or in the comfort of your home since we have a portable one. Echolight™ is radiation-free, safe, accurate as well as Health Canada and FDA approved.

The book, The Healing Power of Exercise: Your Guide to Prevention and Treating Diabetes, Depression, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Arthritis, and More states, “A universal finding in exercise studies is that people experience a greater sense of wellbeing.” In the book, it is explained, “Our cardiovascular system, endocrine glands, muscles, and bones still function best when the body is challenged by regular
bouts of exertion.”

Exercise enhances your mood in many ways. Although exercisers exercise for a wide variety of reasons, the most powerful reasons are psychological, not physical. Exercisers have found exercise makes them:
feel good. more optimistic. more mentally alert. feel an enhanced sense of well-being. feel more confident. better able to cope with stress and more energetic.

Moreover, some people report they overeat because they are depressed. For many, moderate depression tends to cause overeating while severe depression tends to cause undereating. One large study of overweight individuals found depression was the number one reason for overeating, ahead
of stress.