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

Relias

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one method that can help kids and teens in your community in need of mental health care get the attention they deserve. What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)? CBT is generally short-term and goal-oriented, focusing on helping clients deal with specific problems.

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NASW Member Voices: In Search of Transgenerational Office Space

Social Work Blog

We face each other and enter into a verbal dance I like to refer to as the “Acronym Tango,” (IFS, CBT, DBT, EMDR, EFT, cha-cha-cha). By naming all associated parties, it becomes quite clear why Emily complains about sleeplessness, anxiety, depression, and somatization. Sometimes clients politely decline the invitation. But I digress.

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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. In a wider context, the term also means the inability to cope with life’s challenges.

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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. Barkham, M.,

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Why Did It Take Me So Long To Accept My Mental Health Medication?

Beautiful Voyager

Leading me to feeling depressed, tired and sad. So, I used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, my daily mantra and meditation to deal with them. The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. But was that enough?

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Synthesizing Findings on Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although studies varied to some extent in terms of their findings, cognitive flexibility did not appear to be consistently or strongly associated with a history of SITB when researchers accounted for other mental health problems like depression. Journal of Psychiatric Research , 158 , 157–164. Diamond, A. Executive functions.

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Can prisoners with mental health problems benefit from psychological therapy? Yes, but health and justice need to be closer friends.

Society of Clinical Psychology

All over the world, people held in our jails and prisons experience far greater levels of mental illness than the general population including PTSD, major depression, psychotic illness and personality disorder (Fazel & Seewald, 2012, Goff et al., This SCP blog by Karen Slade, Psy.D. 2007; Butler et al., doi: 10.1002/cbm.653.