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Women Working In Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

Women Working on Preventions and Interventions Dr Susanne Ahmari, (USA) identified brain activity related to Obsessive behaviours, the first step towards developing new treatments for OCD in 2013. Professor Petra Vértes (UK) used genetics to improve understanding of the biological underpinnings of Schizophrenia in 2017.

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Members in the News – August 4, 2023

Social Workers Speak

We make harmful assumptions that can lead to weight stigma or lead us to encourage someone to continue their restrictive eating and overexercise.” Marshall, LCSW, is director of clinical services and delegate representative for the National Association of Social Workers, Washington, D.C. and Connecticut based social worker.

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Tricky, sticky habits: what are body-focused repetitive behaviours?

Lawson Psychology

But you might not realise that these sayings can be traced back to compulsive hair-pulling disorder and other body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs). This is one of the reasons why BFRBs are not considered to be a form of deliberate self-harm, and usually require a different treatment approach. How common are BFRBs?

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From Living with OCD to Working with it

Beautiful Voyager

The author Natalia Aniela Aíza My journey as an OCD therapist (and what I have yet to learn). I distinctly remember that queasy feeling of being both powerful and powerless – what I now understand to be the dichotomy of having a control disorder that is out of control. This means that my core self and my OCD are in line.

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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. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. Schizo-affective disorder? I was self-employed and wondered if this hiatus would have an effect on my income and reputation.