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What to expect when seeing a clinical psychologist with your child

Lawson Psychology

What to expect when seeing a clinical psychologist with your child Attending an appointment with a clinical psychologist can be a time of mixed feelings. These difficulties might include high anger and conflict, a child having lots of worries, low mood or difficulties with self esteem. What happens next?

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What can we learn from cultural adaptations of dialectical behavior therapy?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Challenges with mental health occur worldwide. Research studies are a tool to assess whether culturally adapted therapy are effective for addressing mental health concerns. However, the psychotherapies that treat these concerns have been mainly developed by and for people who are White and live in Western countries.

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What Is A Traumaversary And How Can It Affect Us?

MQ Mental Health

The term ‘ Traumaversary’ has crept into the mental health world in recent years. A traumatic event is something that happens to us that causes us harm. This harm could be physical, emotional, or psychological. But in a clinical sense, a trigger is a trauma-related cue that induces a PTSD response.

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Teen Cutting

Beautiful Voyager

Photo by Matthew Waring Signs, Symptoms, Prevention, and Treatment When confronted with intense emotions, some teens may turn to self-harm , such as cutting, as a means of coping. Familiarize yourself with this self-harming behavior so you'll know what to do when your teenager engages in it. What Is Teen Cutting?

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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. Did anyone else in my family experience mental health issues? My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. My name is Kathy and I’m a licensed mental health counselor.

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Emotional Support Animal Idaho: ESA Laws For 2023

Blurt It Out

In short, individuals with certain mental health conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders can request that their ESA be allowed to live with them. Unlike service animals, ESAs do not need to go through rigorous training, but they should be able to demonstrate good behavior and not pose any risk of harm or property damage.

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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). Of course some part of me is grateful that my compulsivity settled into a safer landing spot than self-harm or theft, but now that I am a therapist, I appreciate how much harder it is to heal from perfectionism OCD.

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