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Women Working In Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

Women Working on Preventions and Interventions Dr Susanne Ahmari, (USA) identified brain activity related to Obsessive behaviours, the first step towards developing new treatments for OCD in 2013. Dr Ethel Nakimuli-Mpungu (Uganda) developed a highly successful intervention for remote communities living with HIV and depression in 2015.

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

MQ is encouraging a cross-generational conversation about improving mental health interventions. To counteract this, 31.8% of MQ’s grant portfolio has had a focus on improving the mental health of children and young people. Young people are the reason MQ exists as a charity.

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

MQ is encouraging a cross-generational conversation about improving mental health interventions. To counteract this, 31.8% of MQ’s grant portfolio has had a focus on improving the mental health of children and young people. Young people are the reason MQ exists as a charity.

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Member Voices: My Journey to Clinical Social Work

Social Work Blog

Healing Justice Values Alongside Therapeutic Interventions. Our priority was to address how racism, patriarchy and heteronormativity deeply harms Detroiters and the marginalized body’s ability to feel safe, secure, and have a right to exist. This was community care that in the Field, we might call an “intervention” at the meso level.

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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. Frequent thoughts of self-harm or suicide. Sleep disturbances.

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Understanding Work Stress Leave in Australia

Psychological Health Care

Fortunately, there is a growing awareness of the issue with organisations such as Safe Work Australia , Mind Your Head , unions and Government organisations placing a spotlight on prevention of harm and management of workplace mental health. In Australia, workplaces are required to manage factors that can harm mental health.

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Caseloads bigger, more complex and harder to manage, say children’s social workers

Community Care

A children in care practitioner from the East of England said: “Cases have become more complex due to lack of services or early interventions not being put in place. There is always a request for an updated statement or risk assessment to be completed, which takes time and therefore takes you away from completing any actual interventions.”.