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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., lock downs’) which affect their intervention and studies. 2007; Butler et al.,

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

Intrusive thoughts or flashbacks of a traumatic event are similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Experts agree that regardless of culture, a "nervous breakdown" means that the individual is no longer able to do his " normal functioning " due to extreme emotional or psychological distress or a psychiatric condition.

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Technology and the future of cognitive-behavioral interventions

Society of Clinical Psychology

Our field has accumulated a lot of empirical support for the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating a wide range of mental and behavioral health problems. That said, I-CBT is already becoming antiquated as the ubiquity and convenience of smartphones take hold. Smartphones are now owned by 81% of adults in the U.S.,

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Outcomes in Anxiety: We’re Halfway There

Society of Clinical Psychology

Levy, Springer, and Tolin discuss a recent meta-analytic review of remission in CBT for anxiety disorders published in Clinical Psychology Review. . The efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders is well established, at least in terms of pre- to post-treatment reductions in anxiety severity.

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