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What Is and Is Not a Psychological Treatment?

Society of Clinical Psychology

The Society of Clinical Psychology maintains a list of empirically supported treatments (ESTs), using a set of requirements colloquially referred to as the “Tolin criteria” (Tolin et al., Psychiatric medications, for example, might address psychological problems but are obviously not psychological treatments. Leichsenring, F.,

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The Perspectives Approach to Treating Mental Illness

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Helping professionals and students of all stripes are familiar with the various iterations of the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders now in its 5th edition. It’s pretty much the bible for the classification of psychiatric disorders in the U.S.

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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., Thus, providing effective preventive care and clinical interventions to individuals who are struggling with PTSD symptoms is imperative. Bomyea et al.,

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Episode: Dr Max Taquet and Why Some People Develop Brain Fog

MQ Mental Health

The effects of Covid-19 on brain function and mental health, as well as the reasons for flaws in diagnosis of psychiatric illness, are all discussed in this episode of the MQ Open Mind podcast. Diagnosis in Psychiatry is not made based on tests, blood tests or even scans. They’re based on a collection of symptoms.

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American Dreams: What’s It Like To Be An MQ Research Fellow In The USA?

MQ Mental Health

At that point in my career, I was experienced enough to know that I needed to shift my focus to achieve greater public health impact – to the area of prevention, where there is tremendous unmet need in psychiatry. All of this is thanks to MQ, and to their investment in me at a critical time in my early career.

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The long awaited second edition Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications by Herbert Mwebe

The Critical Blog

Whilst there are various alternative interventions to managing moderate to severe mental health presentations, psychotropic medications remain the mainstay interventions used in various clinical settings. The arbiter of whether these medications are useful or not is the person taking the medication.