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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.

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International Women’s Day: What’s It Like To Be a US Fellow for MQ?

MQ Mental Health

Up until recently, my work had primarily used mixed methods approaches to intervention design, with my qualitative approaches heavily influenced by user-centred design. It has provided funding towards improving my intervention and is also furthering my own learning as a scientist. Over the next 2.5

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International Women’s Day: What’s It Like To Be a US Fellow for MQ?

MQ Mental Health

Up until recently, my work had primarily used mixed methods approaches to intervention design, with my qualitative approaches heavily influenced by user-centred design. It has provided funding towards improving my intervention and is also furthering my own learning as a scientist. Over the next 2.5

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

Time Moves Different in Here: Clinical Implications for Working with Populations of Color, Complex Trauma and Dissociation in the Age of COVID 19 . Addressing Diversity in PTSD Treatment: Clinical Considerations and Guidance for the Treatment of PTSD in LGBTQ Populations . June 3, 2022. Mighty Oaks Foundation .

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

People experiencing a nervous breakdown may show symptoms that are similar to clinical depression. 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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Getting Better Outcomes from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

High levels of co-morbid problems can interfere with recovery. Our systematic review assessed high quality evidence for current interventions designed to augment first-line PTSD treatments (Metcalf et al., Cognitively taxing to process the trauma memory. Accelerate the fear extinction process. Improve trauma-related cognitive capacity.

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Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?

Society of Clinical Psychology

by Kate MacDuffie and Tim Strauman about their newly published article in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Would it speed your recovery, or slow it down? Rearing environment, exposure to stress, medications, and even diet all can influence the inherently malleable brain circuits involved in psychiatric disorders (Bale et al.,