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Maternal Mental Health Matters: A Neglected but Vital Issue

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Maternal mental health disorders can have serious consequences, such as impaired mother-infant bonding, poor child development, and increased risk of death from suicide or other causes. The EPDS can also detect other mental disorders, such as anxiety, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Celebrate Your Graduate—Save 30% Off Select Books!

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Drawing on his 40+ years of meditation practice, experience as a Vietnam veteran, and decades of psychotherapy work with his clients, Ray Scurfield demonstrates how to introduce meditation into treatment for clients with posttraumatic stress disorder or everyday stress.

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Am I Depressed? Depression Symptoms, Causes, Therapy

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According to the Mayo Clinic , “depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest…it affects how you feel, think, and behave, and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems.” . Clinical Depression (AKA Major Depressive Disorder). Manic Depression (AKA Bipolar Disorder).

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Am I Crazy? Anxiety Symptoms, Causes, Treatment

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Almost an epidemic, it is one of the most common mental disorders that significantly affects the quality of people’s lives. Different types of anxiety disorders, such as generalized, social, and separation anxiety, have their own causes and symptoms that can hurt your mental and physical well-being via a specific set of symptoms.

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September is National Recovery Month: Supporting the Journey to Recovery 

Social Work Blog

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. Additional Resources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Recovery Is for Everyone: Understanding Treatment of Substance Use Disorders. Understanding Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Resource Guide for Professionals Referring to Treatment.

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September is National Recovery Month: Supporting the Journey to Recovery 

Social Work Blog

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. Additional Resources Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Recovery Is for Everyone: Understanding Treatment of Substance Use Disorders. Understanding Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Resource Guide for Professionals Referring to Treatment.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. Like Thompson, they filled the day with activities that provided structure and predictability, the two things I needed as much as medication and psychotherapy. Schizo-affective disorder? Was I taking any medications? he asked me.