Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Currently, a person may be detained for assessment if they are suffering from a mental health disorder of a nature or degree that warrants detention and they ought to be detained for the purposes of their health or safety or the protection of others.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The effects of Covid-19 on brain function and mental health, as well as the reasons for flaws in diagnosis of psychiatric illness, are all discussed in this episode of the MQ Open Mind podcast. In 2022, Max won an award for this work , winning the Core Psychiatric Trainee of the year award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

MQ is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexandre Lussier from the Lussier Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital has been awarded an MQ Fellowship. Following my PhD, I trained in computational biology and statistical genetics at Cornell University, working on X chromosome variation and psychiatric disease.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 12, 2024

One of the first ever MQ Fellows selected was Dr Joshua Roffman from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. We continue to be focused on psychosis prevention as the primary endpoint but have also broadened to consider risk for other psychiatric disorders that may have shared biological underpinnings.

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder? About six months later, after the disorder had progressed, he revised his diagnosis to rapid cycling bipolar I. A: It was 2008; I was 51 and menopausal. My husband, Rob, and I have 5 kids.)

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

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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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There are only 8-10 federal Neuro psychiatric hospitals in the country and when these facilities are available, the average person can’t afford it thereby leaving a larger population to self diagnose themselves with information online. Information is key.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 10, 2022

According to researchers from King's College London , people with mental health conditions are disproportionately affected by loneliness, with one in five patients diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder reporting feelings of loneliness.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Roffman and his team at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania studied MRI scans from 1,370 children born before, during and after the introduction of fortification in the US (when folic acid is added to food). Psychotic disorders have a substantial impact on individuals, their families and society.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 16, 2023

These numbers include children who are suicidal, self-harming, suffering serious depression or anxiety, and those with eating disorders. Hospital admissions for eating disorders are rising as well, with an 82% rise from 2019 to 2022. of those surveyed experiencing severe anxiety.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 14, 2023

boys with adjustment disorders). Her program of research is focused on improving health outcomes for those vulnerable to self-inflicted injury (SII), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and suicide. Cognitive reappraisal intervention for suicide prevention (CRISP) for middle-aged and older adults hospitalized for suicidality.

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 29, 2022

Mayor Adams, NYC Health + Hospitals Announces $1 Million Anonymous Donation to Launch Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Behavioral Health Professionals. New York City. faces a national mental health professional shortage.

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Gateway Foundation

MARCH 6, 2023

This disorder’s leading characteristic is an overpowering urge to gamble, no matter the consequences. Those with gambling addiction are at an increased risk of developing a substance use disorder, which can arise from the same stressors. At the same time, consider all the positives of overcoming your gambling disorder.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. My family and I had been exhausted by my violent and drastic mood swings. The entanglement of delusions and psychosis had long ago become too much to bear.

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Social Workers Speak

MAY 20, 2022

The practice lacks scientific credibility, is unethical, and operates under the misguided belief that being LGBTQ is a disorder that requires treatment. Sexual orientation efforts have been discredited or highly criticized by all major medical, psychiatric, psychological, and professional mental health organizations,” Feldman said.

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Learning Social Worker

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The psychiatric hospital, in its forbidding Victorian building, was somewhere you got ‘put away’. Imagine going to hospital with a broken leg, and having someone jump on it, then give you a paracetamol for the pain. People with ‘Personality Disorder’ are treated inhumanely and discriminated against. I volunteered there.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 7, 2021

American Psychiatric Association. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5 th edition). Ethnic identity, acculturation and the prevalence of lifetime psychiatric disorders among Black, Hispanic, and Asian adults in the US. Journal of psychiatric research , 47 (1), 56-63. Hospital, M.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 2, 2019

These people are often incarcerated or, for some who experience mental disorder, detained in secure hospitals for the purposes of incapacitation and rehabilitation. hospital/prison) misconducts. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , 49 , 559-71. Wallinius, M., Lundström, S., Frisell, T.,

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Beautiful Voyager

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

On the other hand, as a peer specialist, I have noticed that in hospital or peer support group settings, men are overrepresented. The only two occasions I went to the hospital for my mental health challenges were 1) generalized anxiety with panic disorder and 2) severe depression with psychotic events and suicide attempt.

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Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

I always suspected living with a mild attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that didn’t affect me to a point of challenging my everyday life (or so I thought). The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. A lesser person?

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Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them. Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

I am completing my field education at Natchaug Hospital in an outpatient program for older adults experiencing mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders. My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 23, 2020

African Americans in the United States had (and likely continue to have) more infections, hospitalizations, and subsequent deaths from COVID-19 than any other racial/ethnic group (Milam et al., Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association , 1 (4). 2020; Yancy, 2020). avoidance, hypervigilance, flashbacks)(Comas-Díaz et al.,

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Around 70% of children meet diagnostic criteria for a mental health problem and among adults over 50% receive a psychiatric diagnosis. The study considered different levels of psychiatric care including diagnoses as well as hospitalizations for 11 psychiatric disorders including depression , anxiety , sleep, eating disorders and self-harm.

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Beautiful Voyager

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

What I have is called Bipolar Disorder, which, by definition, is a mental condition marked by alternating periods of elation and depression. It was then, that I realized I needed some true, serious professional help, so I decided to check myself into the local psychiatric hospital. It is not something easily explained.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Kathryn McHugh discusses a recent article published in Clinical Psychology Review about why gender matters in the study and treatment of substance use disorders. For many years, knowledge on the nature and treatment of substance use disorders was based on research conducted in males. In this blog post we highlight some of our findings.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

is an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. is a clinical research coordinator in the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Related Disorders program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Journal of Anxiety Disorders , 55 , 70–78.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Buss, BS; Robinson De Jesús-Romero, BA, MsC; Allison Peipert, BS; Isabella Starvaggi, BS Psychotherapy research in the 21st century Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the disability attributable to health conditions (Whiteford et al., References American Psychiatric Association. In the United States (U.S.),

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Social Workers Speak

APRIL 1, 2022

With some of the clients I see the eating disordered behaviors, the self harming, the obsessive compulsive type of behaviors. Kate Morris is a member: Does Vermont have enough eating disorder treatment for youth? has increased dramatically. As a middle school counselor Ruiz faced this problem head on. Rebellious.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

I treat far more complications from untreated diabetes in the NICU than I do from opioid use disorder." It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. said Patrick. "I NPR and The Marshall Project exposed the practice in 2021.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Among the studies implementing EBPs, many have focused on training self-selected or nominated clinicians, within a single level of care, to learn an EBP focused on a single-disorder (Karlin et al., Dissemination of evidence-based psychological treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder in the veterans’ health administration.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 13, 2018

Levy, Springer, and Tolin discuss a recent meta-analytic review of remission in CBT for anxiety disorders published in Clinical Psychology Review. . The efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders is well established, at least in terms of pre- to post-treatment reductions in anxiety severity.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 10, 2022

According to licensed clinical social worker with Baptist Hospital, Melissa Donahue , “Buddy’s Law” would have definitely helped slow the cycle of violence and helped catch issues in homes. I would say everyone is experiencing adjustment disorder to a degree,” said Rachael Frederick, MSW, LCSW , Aspirus Health clinical therapist. “On

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