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10 Years of MQ’s American Fellows

MQ Mental Health

Ahmari investigated what happens in the brain to cause OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) specifically, whether complications in the brain’s circuits may cause symptoms. With this fascinating technique, Susanne progressed the understanding of OCD forwards and contribute to treatments. The MQ fellowship was transformational.

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Compassion-Focused Therapy Strongly Improves Mental Health Outcomes: A Series of Meta-Analyses

Society of Clinical Psychology

But it doesn’t stop there; CFT has also ventured beyond clinical settings to promote mental well-being in the general public. Our study expanded on previous meta-analyses of CFT and provided valuable insights into the efficacy of CFT in numerous clinical and non-clinical populations. Target Article Petrocchi, N.,

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News Items – July 21, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Granet , licensed clinical social worker at The OCD-BDD Clinic of Northern California wonders, too: “How many times did somebody take a picture to get the right picture ? This licensed clinical social worker has deftly navigated her personal and professional life, turning trials into triumphs. She was 73.

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Members in the News – August 4, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Marshall, LCSW, is director of clinical services and delegate representative for the National Association of Social Workers, Washington, D.C. FitzPatrick, a licensed and certified clinical social worker who has 30+ years in caregiving from Kent Island, Maryland. and Connecticut based social worker.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety: An Overview and Future Directions

Society of Clinical Psychology

2015), although exposure use in community clinics remains low (Whiteside, Deacon, Benito, & Stewart, 2016). Both models have somewhat contradictory implications for clinical practice (e.g., Lesley Norris is a fourth-year doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at Temple University working with Dr. Philip Kendall.

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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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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). My OCD version of shoplifting – the same item from the same store at the same time of day, every day – obviously got me caught. If I put my therapist hat on, I am able to identify my current OCD as “ego-syntonic.”

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