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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety: An Overview and Future Directions

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), deemed a “well-established” intervention for the treatment of child and adolescent anxiety (Hollon & Beck, 2013), typically addresses anxiety using a two-pronged approach. Further work is also needed to increase long-term efficacy of youth anxiety treatment. 2005; Peris et al., Author Bio.

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2022 International Women’s Day

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Dr Bronwyn Graham Dr Bronwyn Graham from the University of New South Wales in Sydney used her MQ Fellowship to investigate the effect of hormones on anxiety disorders in women. Since then Bronwyn has become an Associate professor and has received the Aubrey Lewis Award from Biological Psychiatry Australia. “I

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Compassion-Focused Therapy Strongly Improves Mental Health Outcomes: A Series of Meta-Analyses

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Remarkably, CFT has found application in treating various mental health difficulties, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. A randomized controlled trial of Compassion Focused Therapy for social anxiety disorder. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , 12 (4), e80945.

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Is travel good for your mental health?

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Travel Psychiatry The relatively new term ‘travel psychiatry’ expresses how someone with mental illness might find travelling abroad both challenging and a positive experience. It was not my choice to develop clinical depression or anxiety disorders, eating disorders, CPTSD or to be sectioned under the mental health act.

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Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers

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Psychiatrists are medical doctors who have specialized in psychiatry. Along with psychotherapy, they can dispense medication if needed to help with the overall course of therapy. Although it is often used with depression and anxiety, it has proven to be effective for a wide range of mental health issues. . Psychiatrists.

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How do we know when posttraumatic stress disorder is getting better?

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This lack of a standard definition of what it means for a person to respond or not respond to PTSD treatment is in stark contrast to other areas of psychiatry that have well-developed definitions, such as depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder. depression and anxiety symptoms; Cuijpers, 2019; Yehuda & Hoge, 2016). Cuijpers, P.

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Identifying Mechanisms of Change in Clinical Supervision

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When attending national academic conferences in psychology, it is hard not to hear mention of mechanisms of change in psychotherapy. Alan Kazdin’s 2007 article, Mediators and Mechanisms of Change in Psychotherapy Research, still has lasting effects on the way psychologists think about therapy today. 2013; Cha et al., Dr. Mona A.

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