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NASW Member Voices: ADHD and Mindfulness

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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that develops in childhood and lasts into adulthood. A common quote is that ADHD is “a disorder of not doing what you know.” Mindfulness is a practice that encompasses a variety of mindfulness-based interventions.

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Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers

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Therapists and counselors have extensive training in mental health techniques, mental health issues and what interventions to employ based on goals that are determined collaboratively with the client and counselor or therapist. . Psychiatrists are medical doctors who have specialized in psychiatry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

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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. comorbid disorders, family dysfunction), moving the field toward the ultimate goal of person-centered intervention.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Several interventions for SITB include strategies to improve cognitive flexibility (e.g., boys with adjustment disorders). is a clinical psychologist and faculty in the University of Utah’s department of psychiatry. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry , 26 (4), 494–503. 2006; Park & Ammerman, 2023). Diamond, A.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

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In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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Mental wellbeing can, and should, be assessed in clinical samples

Society of Clinical Psychology

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT) and novel wellbeing-specific interventions (e.g., mindfulness and positive-psychology interventions) can improve mental wellbeing in clinical populations (van Agteren et al., Jones, who is in therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. His scores on the MHC-SF are really low.

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What does it take to increase our resilience?

Society of Clinical Psychology

In an effort to construct meaning from the vast bodies of research focusing on resilience interventions, a recent meta-analysis produced a comprehensive review of the literature in order to substantiate their effectiveness (Liu et al., Are resilience interventions effective? For whom are resilience interventions the most effective?