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Contemporary Issues in Understanding Immigrant Mental Health Needs and Challenges

Society of Clinical Psychology

My colleague Dr. Angela Nickerson (Director of the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program and Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales) has recently spearheaded an important briefing paper examining the mental health considerations for forcibly displaced individuals for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).

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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. Many were here with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, so common following participation in armed conflict and in some cases, the result of physical or sexual abuse. I worked at a university for about ten years.

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Outcomes in Anxiety: We’re Halfway There

Society of Clinical Psychology

Levy, Springer, and Tolin discuss a recent meta-analytic review of remission in CBT for anxiety disorders published in Clinical Psychology Review. . In our recently published article in Clinical Psychology Review , we define remission as the patient’s end status after treatment. This SCP Blog piece by Drs.

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