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Everything You Need to Know About Mental Health Case Management

Famcare

The most prevalent mental ailment among Americans is depression, but they also have bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, OCD, and PTSD. Mental health issues have been identified in more than 50 million Americans.

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Guest Post: The Difference Between Mental Health & Mental Illness by Amelia Blackwater

Bipolar Bandit

depression or bipolar. schizophrenia. The main groups of mental disorders are: * Anxiety disorders. Eating disorders ex. anorexia or bulimia. Mood disorders ex. Personality disorders ex. borderline personality disorder. Psychotic disorders ex. Substance abuse disorders ex. drug addictions. Trauma-related disorders ex.

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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms

University of Connecticut

For many people with SPD, their constant need to re-regulate their senses to adapt to the stimuli around them, creates symptoms of distractibility, irritability, anxiety, and depression. Imagine trying to treat a client with ASD or PTSD and not teaching the client about their sensory system reactions? So where is SPD in the DSM 5?

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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms and How that Harms Our Clients

University of Connecticut

For many people with SPD, their constant need to re-regulate their senses to adapt to the stimuli around them, creates symptoms of distractibility, irritability, anxiety, and depression. Imagine trying to treat a client with ASD or PTSD and not teaching the client about their sensory system reactions? So where is SPD in the DSM 5?

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Women Working In Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

Professor Petra Vértes (UK) used genetics to improve understanding of the biological underpinnings of Schizophrenia in 2017. Dr Ethel Nakimuli-Mpungu (Uganda) developed a highly successful intervention for remote communities living with HIV and depression in 2015. Ethel Mpungu’s work is an amazing example of interdisciplinary thinking.

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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms and How that Harms All of Our Clients

University of Connecticut

For many people with SPD, their constant need to re-regulate their senses to adapt to the stimuli around them, creates symptoms of distractibility, irritability, anxiety, and depression. Imagine trying to treat a client with ASD or PTSD and not teaching the client about their sensory system reactions? So where is SPD in the DSM 5?

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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptom and How that Harms All of Our Clients

University of Connecticut

For many people with SPD, their constant need to re-regulate their senses to adapt to the stimuli around them, creates symptoms of distractibility, irritability, anxiety, and depression. Imagine trying to treat a client with ASD or PTSD and not teaching the client about their sensory system reactions? So where is SPD in the DSM-5?

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