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What Is and Is Not a Psychological Treatment?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Psychiatric medications, for example, might address psychological problems but are obviously not psychological treatments. In our article below, we discuss the rationale behind each part of the definition, and list both positive and negative examples of various interventions. Reference/Target Article Tolin, D. Boness, C. Olatunji, B.

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Movement for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024: Feeling Safe In Your Body

MQ Mental Health

Compared to the so-called ‘first line’ treatments for the most common mental health conditions, such as psychiatric medication and cognitive behavioural therapy, research is lacking behind on approaches that involve the body to improve mental health. Anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder cause my stress levels to be constantly high.

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MQ expands its Science Council

MQ Mental Health

Professor Jehannine Austin from the University of British Columbia in Canada is a psychiatrist whose research work involved studying the impact of genetic counselling for people with psychiatric disorders and their families. Additionally, she is also the Director of the Mood Disorders Research program at Yale.

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CBT for Kids: How You Can Improve the Mental Health of Younger Clients

Relias

It is used to treat a wide range of issues including health-related distress, family and school problems, and numerous psychiatric disorders. Concurrently, CBT-based interventions emphasize the importance of identifying activities that lead to neutral or positive feelings. But CBT for kids has benefits beyond anxiety disorders.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Anxiety, panic attacks, or shakiness. Sleep disturbances.

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International Men’s Day: 5 Men Doing Amazing Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

Dr Christian Kieling In 2018, MQ funded the IDEA project (Identifying Depression in Early Adolescence) of which Dr Christian Kieling was one of two principal investigators (along with Professor Valeria Mondelli). The IDEA project allowed us to conduct research on adolescent depression where it is most needed.

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Behavioral Activation for Depression During Pregnancy: Results from a multi-site pragmatic randomized controlled effectiveness trial.

Society of Clinical Psychology

Behavioral Activation for Depression During Pregnancy: Results from a multi-site pragmatic randomized controlled effectiveness trial – an SCP blog piece by Drs. For others, life changes during pregnancy can become major challenges and 1 in 7 pregnant women become clinically depressed (Gavin et al., Hubley and Dimidjian.