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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Unlike PTSD, which is a mental illness that develops in adulthood when an adult is aware of the traumatic experience they go through, cPTSD is a mental illness borne of ongoing trauma in childhood. Expressing Differently Sometimes, adults might expect children to express themselves verbally, as adults tend to communicate.

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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Society of Clinical Psychology

Trauma exposure takes a toll on societies and individuals, leading to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for a sizable minority of individuals (Magruder et al., As such, intervening on memory-related processes has been a key focus when treating PTSD. 2015; Kilpatrick et al., Bomyea et al., 2016; van Marle, 2015).

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Movement Is Hope: Mental Health Awareness Week 2024

MQ Mental Health

Writing helps me communicate with others and with myself. Moving Differently When I’m in a depressive time, when clinical depression is changing the way I think, feel and behave, a part of the depressive cycle that I go through includes a period of time where I have to work hard at imagining small, incremental improvements.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Unlike PTSD, which is a mental illness that develops in adulthood when an adult is aware of the traumatic experience they go through, cPTSD is a mental illness borne of ongoing trauma in childhood. Expressing Differently Sometimes, adults might expect children to express themselves verbally, as adults tend to communicate.

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News Items – October 27, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Licensed clinical social worker Anita Daniels says one red flag can be a big change in personality. Caitlin Canto is a member of NASW-NJ: 3 Signs You Need to Learn Healthier Communication Skills. Most people lack relational communication skills. Effective communication requires much more than being able to speak.

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How To Take a Trauma-Informed Approach to Birth Trauma

Relias

Birth trauma is an adverse psychological reaction following pregnancy or childbirth similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Also labeled as postpartum PTSD or postnatal PTSD, birth trauma can occur for several reasons. What is birth trauma?

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Altering the understanding of Alters: Dissociative Identity Disorder

MQ Mental Health

Unlike The Hulk’s Intermittent Explosive Disorder or Iron Man’s PTSD , Moon Knight brought childhood trauma and a much misunderstood mental illness Dissociative Identity Disorder into the spotlight. According to The British Journal of Psychiatry there is even neurobiological evidence that DID is a severe form of PTSD.