MQ Mental Health

APRIL 12, 2024

This intervention rapidly doubled blood folate levels in women capable of pregnancy and dramatically reduced spina bifida incidence. 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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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

My doctoral research focused on the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on epigenomic and transcriptomic patterns in animal models and clinical cohorts of individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Research is the key to understanding and developing better interventions to prevent and treat mental health conditions.

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 5, 2022

Professor Jehannine Austin from the University of British Columbia in Canada is a psychiatrist whose research work involved studying the impact of genetic counselling for people with psychiatric disorders and their families. Additionally, she is also the Director of the Mood Disorders Research program at Yale.

Psychiatry 52

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 10, 2020

Several effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exist, yet nearly half of patients continue to have significant symptomatology after receiving them (e.g., Our systematic review assessed high quality evidence for current interventions designed to augment first-line PTSD treatments (Metcalf et al., Hoffmann et al.,

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2021

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., 2006; Zimmermann et al., 2017; Sharf et al.,

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2023

It is used to treat a wide range of issues including health-related distress, family and school problems, and numerous psychiatric disorders. Concurrently, CBT-based interventions emphasize the importance of identifying activities that lead to neutral or positive feelings. But CBT for kids has benefits beyond anxiety disorders.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention. Dementia Associated Behavioral and Psychiatric Symptoms Screening and Management. Child and Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder (MDD): Suicide Risk Assessment. Elder Maltreatment Screen and Follow-Up Plan. Dementia: Cognitive Assessment.

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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., In the United States (U.S.), 2010; Wells & Horwood, 2004). 2021; Cuijpers et al.,

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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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Relias

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Substance use disorder. Psychiatric Advance Directives. Substance use disorders and safety planning. The ramifications of these substance use disorders go beyond the individual. The families of those dealing with substance user disorders (SUDs) have also been shown to be greatly affected. Domestic violence.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Substance use disorder. Psychiatric Advance Directives. Substance use disorders and safety planning. The ramifications of these substance use disorders go beyond the individual. The families of those dealing with substance user disorders (SUDs) have also been shown to be greatly affected. Domestic violence.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 12, 2019

First, approximately one-third of first-year students report 12-month (31.4%) and lifetime (35.3%) mental disorders, and most of these disorders have onsets during middle adolescence. Not surprisingly, MDD (21.2%) and GAD (18.6%) are the most common lifetime disorders. gender, parental education) and college-related (e.g.,

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

One draws the therapist’s intervention, while the other is “better behaved”. Cases in which one partner truly has a medical or psychiatric disorder should be addressed with referrals to other professionals who can specifically treat those disorders in order to avoid relating to that partner as the identified patient in the couple treatment.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 14, 2023

Several interventions for SITB include strategies to improve cognitive flexibility (e.g., 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. 2006; Park & Ammerman, 2023).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2023

by Nicholas L Balderston Anxiety disorders are among the most diagnosed classes of mental disorders with 1 in 5 individuals meeting criteria for an anxiety disorder within a given year in the US (Kessler & Chiu, 2005). 2007a), obsessive compulsive disorder (Carmi et al., 2019), and smoking cessation (Zangen et al.,

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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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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Psychotic disorders have a substantial impact on individuals, their families and society. COVID is associated with elevated risks of a wide range of neurological and psychiatric consequences. Whether it’s depression, eating disorders, addiction… they will be transformational.”

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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. A survey of pregnant women in May 2020 showed that the prevalence of anxiety was 78.9%, with 21.7%

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 7, 2021

cultural socialization, or emphasizing cultural pride and heritage) have been identified as important treatment targets in interventions that were specifically designed with and for African American families (e.g., American Psychiatric Association. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5 th edition).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 4, 2020

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), deemed a “well-established” intervention for the treatment of child and adolescent anxiety (Hollon & Beck, 2013), typically addresses anxiety using a two-pronged approach. comorbid disorders, family dysfunction), moving the field toward the ultimate goal of person-centered intervention.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 11, 2018

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. Psychiatric Services, 65 , 997-1004.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 31, 2017

Would you feel better, or worse, after being given a biological explanation for your disorder? In search of an answer to these questions, we reviewed the literature on what happens when people are given biological explanations for mental disorders. malleable), and potentially controllable. biofeedback or neurofeedback approaches).

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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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Society of Clinical Psychology

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

To exemplify and rectify this issue, we aimed to recover a stand-alone transdiagnostic treatment that largely disappeared from the literature when research shifted away from focal, dimensional and clinically relevant problems to using treatment packages to treat DSM disorders. unassertiveness) or an intervention (e.g. saying no).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 2, 2017

All over the world, people held in our jails and prisons experience far greater levels of mental illness than the general population including PTSD, major depression, psychotic illness and personality disorder (Fazel & Seewald, 2012, Goff et al., lock downs’) which affect their intervention and studies. 2007; Butler et al.,

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Notable psychiatrists have challenged the objective basis of psychiatric diagnoses: the reliability of diagnosis (Rosenhan, 1973 ), the arbitrary tendency to medicalise behaviour (Szasz, 1974 ; Lane, 2008 ), and the presentation of subjective, fallible personal judgements as objective diag- noses (Frances, 2013 ). Oxford: Berg.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

According to one study , 12 percent of adult psychiatric patients receiving treatment in the San Diego County health system had prior incarcerations. In contrast, 28 percent of Connecticut residents treated for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder had been arrested or detained. Substance abuse disorders fuel much juvenile crime.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

According to one study , 12 percent of adult psychiatric patients receiving treatment in the San Diego County health system had prior incarcerations. In contrast, 28 percent of Connecticut residents treated for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder had been arrested or detained. . Substance abuse disorders fuel much juvenile crime.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Participants were part of a de-identified database comprised of 19,384 patients from an outpatient psychiatric clinic. This study was archival and included a sample size of 7,413 adults who upon intake, completed a questionnaire packet assessing psychiatric and brain injury symptomatology.

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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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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. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , 49 , 559-71. The 1% of the population accountable for 63% of all violent crime convictions. doi: 10.1007/s00127-013-0783-y.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 30, 2024

Understanding what aspects of the disease experience signal higher stigma may help clinicians interpret patient symptoms and guide interventions to improve wellbeing. Interventions may be needed outside memory centers to aid Black older adults and their family members in seeking out care they may need. 2022; Corrigan et al.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 14, 2017

An assumption held by many—including many mental health professionals—is that people who suffer from one or more mental disorders constitute a small, troubled minority. Research from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, however, suggests that mental disorders may not be as uncommon as previously thought.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The best socioecological model based health intervention would reach the individual within his or her system environment across multiple levels (e.g., Future research may do well consider a population based examination of disorder prevalence, attitudes toward mental health treatment, utilization, and resiliency. Planned Parenthood).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2017

Does contact with a person with bipolar disorder improve attitudes about people with “mental illness” more broadly? How can the experiences of persons with mental illness be considered when designing studies or interventions? Psychiatric Services, 62 , 824-826. Watson, Corrigan, Larson, & Sells, 2007). Corrigan, P.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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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