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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. Readers can try out these phrases right away to reduce anxiety, reframe situations and increase serenity. Change Your Life ( Front Porch Press, 2022 ). So I wrote a different kind of book to fill that need.

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

MQ Mental Health

Symptoms include lethargy, chest pain or respiratory difficulties, joint pain, depression and anxiety, and cognitive impairment. COVID is associated with elevated risks of a wide range of neurological and psychiatric consequences. This cognitive impairment is sometimes called ‘brain fog’.

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

Over about the last 50 years, clinical research has proven without a doubt that psychotherapy significantly alleviates the symptoms of a wide range of mental illnesses, for example, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and addictions (Lutz et al., Psychiatric Quarterly, 51 (4), 271–279. Carpenter, P.

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Harnessing cultural identity as a protective factor in minority mental health: Applications to children and families

Society of Clinical Psychology

2014) and/or interviews (e.g., Cultural Formulation Interview, APA, 2013; University of Connecticut Racial/Ethnic Stress and Trauma Survey, Williams et al., Consider the following case example: a 12-year-old Hispanic girl, Rosa, presents to cognitive behavioral treatment for anxiety problems. American Psychiatric Association.

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Costume, Cosplay and Dressing Up: Fashion and Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

Wearing a power suit to a job interview, a Little Black Dress on a date, sportswear to the gym, pyjamas to sleep in or indeed the princess dream of a wedding dress; costume permeates our subconscious in these strong ways and in more subtle instances too. Clothing and Psychology The power of costume is apparent in all of our lives.

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Why Assess?

The Critical Blog

Our interviews also require more than just an ear for words: hearing gaps, hearing what someone’s not saying, and picking up what goes unspoken in a facial expression, or even (if someone’s face is covered, or paralysed by a stroke, for example) in body language alone. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Oxford: Berg.

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News Items – August 5, 2021

Social Workers Speak

.… The 38-year-old Dorchester native and first-generation Cape Verdean American works as a social worker in addictions at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in the emergency psychiatric department at Boston Children’s Hospital. Elise Aronov is a member: Experts tell us their tips for teens with driving anxiety.