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MQ announces its biggest ever investment in new research

MQ Mental Health

The 2023 MQ Fellows are: Dr Suhas Ganesh from the Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi, in Kanke, India. Suhas will examine genetic and environmental predictors of treatment-emergent metabolic abnormalities in schizophrenia. You can read more about Suhas' work here. Dr Gareth Griffith from the University of Bristol.

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

MQ is encouraging a cross-generational conversation about improving mental health interventions. Identifying those who are vulnerable helped to develop interventions that work to alleviate suicidal thoughts and behaviours, potentially saving young people’s lives. To counteract this, 31.8%

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

MQ is encouraging a cross-generational conversation about improving mental health interventions. Identifying those who are vulnerable helped to develop interventions that work to alleviate suicidal thoughts and behaviours, potentially saving young people’s lives. To counteract this, 31.8%

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Synthesizing Findings on Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors

Society of Clinical Psychology

Several interventions for SITB include strategies to improve cognitive flexibility (e.g., Although studies varied to some extent in terms of their findings, cognitive flexibility did not appear to be consistently or strongly associated with a history of SITB when researchers accounted for other mental health problems like depression.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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What makes mental illness stigma so hard to change (and also to study)?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Herein lies another major challenge: mental illness is incredibly heterogeneous, encompassing both mild and severe symptoms, and including everything from social anxiety to schizophrenia. Would increasing empathy toward people with depression also increase empathy toward people with anxiety? Meltzer, H. I., & Rowlands, O.

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Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Imagine that you have just visited a mental health professional and received a diagnosis of depression. The clinician goes on to explain that depression is a brain disease, and that your biological wiring, in combination with sufficient life stress, has led you to become depressed.