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COVID-19 Inquiry: The Missing Mental Health Impact

MQ Mental Health

Why were the psychiatric hospitals emptied at the same time as community care was shut down? When the pandemic hit in 2020, through the NIHR Translational Collaborations, a group of academics from different clinical specialties came together to study the longer-term impact of being hospitalised with COVID-19 through the PHOSP-COVID project.

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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Society of Clinical Psychology

Trauma exposure takes a toll on societies and individuals, leading to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for a sizable minority of individuals (Magruder et al., As such, intervening on memory-related processes has been a key focus when treating PTSD. depression; Jacobson et al., depression; Jacobson et al.,

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Roadmap toward a neuromodulatory treatment for PTSD and anxiety

Society of Clinical Psychology

While anxiety alone can cause significant distress and dysfunction, anxiety and depression symptoms are highly comorbid, and those suffering from anxious depression are often much sicker and more difficult to treat than individuals with either depression or anxiety alone (Ionescu et al., 2018) and PTSD (Philip et al.,

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

correspondents with a new article in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology titled, “Outcomes of Psychological Therapies for Prisoners with Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. What implications might this have on the lack of sustained improvement in depression and anxiety?

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. Clearly my husband wasn’t. Just call,” he insisted. Someone will be there.”

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Technology and the future of cognitive-behavioral interventions

Society of Clinical Psychology

Poor engagement is compounded by a lack of collaboration between clinician-scientists, industry, and key stakeholders (Schueller, Muñoz, & Mohr, 2013) – a partnership that, if pursued, can effectively marry clinical and scientific rigor with expertise in user-interface design and engagement, as well as insights into real-world needs.