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A roadmap to prevent people being gone too soon

MQ Mental Health

Now, a new paper published in the Lancet Psychiatry calls for action on a global scale to put an end to the growing mortality rates of people with mental illness and distress. Globally, too many people die prematurely from suicide and the physical health problems associated with mental illness and mental distress.

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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

During that time, she had been having several panic attacks per day and met criteria for multiple anxiety disorders. 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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Targeting Anxiety Sensitivity in Prevention Treatments: A Meta-Analysis

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although anxiety sensitivity was originally studied in relation to panic- and anxiety-related disorders, it subsequently has been conceptualized as a transdiagnostic measure of distress intolerance and a risk factor for important health behaviors (Otto et al., The interventions additionally needed to be brief: six sessions or less.

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Prioritizing Mental Health on College Campuses

Society of Clinical Psychology

Increasingly, there is greater awareness that college students have high levels of clinically significant emotional problems, and despite a broad consensus about the need to clarify the scope of the problem and develop actionable solutions, our understanding of college student mental health remains limited.

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Let’s Talk About Sleep

Millennial Social Worker

It affects our daily functioning, our physical and mental health in many ways. Our mental health is significantly impacted when we sleep too much or too little. Poor sleep leads to cognitive impairment and may cause or contribute to many depressive disorders. Sleep and Sleep Disordered. Sleep and Health.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

In other words, how similar are the individuals diagnosed with a given disorder in clinical practice to those who are diagnosed in research settings? eating disorders showed strong agreement), the overall conclusion was that the correspondence between research and practice diagnoses was strikingly low for most disorders.

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

By investigating the underlying mechanism of action in our earlier work, we were able to create an efficient and efficacious intervention that we hope will improve treatment access and the subsequent health, well-being and quality of life of people exposed to trauma and in need of treatment services. 2012; Nacasch et al., References.

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