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Training therapists in evidence-based mental health interventions: What works and what holds promise for the future?

Society of Clinical Psychology

She had dropped out of school, had increasing depression symptoms, and had been hospitalized several times for suicidality. However, despite all her years of psychosocial intervention, she had never received evidence-based interventions for her anxiety. Unfortunately, people like Jenna are not as uncommon as we would hope.

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A roadmap to prevent people being gone too soon

MQ Mental Health

The paper, written by 40 global experts, followed an extensive road mapping process of evidence reviews and consultation with mental health researchers, clinicians, policy experts and people with lived and living experience of mental illnesses and suicide. Group therapy improves depression and HIV treatment 2.

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Those Crazy-Making Conflicting Messages

Gary Direnfeld

That is when the tension create by these situations can come out as anxiety, depression and inappropriate behavior. The intervention looks good, but changes nothing. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

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Caseloads bigger, more complex and harder to manage, say children’s social workers

Community Care

A children in care practitioner from the East of England said: “Cases have become more complex due to lack of services or early interventions not being put in place. There is always a request for an updated statement or risk assessment to be completed, which takes time and therefore takes you away from completing any actual interventions.”.

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Predictors of veterans’ well-being after leaving service

Society of Clinical Psychology

Understanding how veterans fare when they leave service is important to inform early intervention and prevention efforts. Yet, knowledge of factors that portend better outcomes across multiple aspects of life can be used to develop interventions that have a broader reach and impact on veterans’ lives. Gender differences.

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How can we protect peoples mental health during the cost-of-living-crisis?

MQ Mental Health

This review also discusses the impact of economic crises on mental health, underlying factors, and promising intervention targets at individual, community, and societal levels. The consultations were carried out through group interviews to discuss, refine, and enrich the recommendations developed from the literature review.

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

Over about the last 50 years, clinical research has proven without a doubt that psychotherapy significantly alleviates the symptoms of a wide range of mental illnesses, for example, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and addictions (Lutz et al., Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.