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American Dreams: What’s It Like To Be An MQ Research Fellow In The USA?

MQ Mental Health

Given known areas of overlap in risk for autism and schizophrenia, I wondered whether periconceptional folic acid might also confer protection against schizophrenia risk. This intervention rapidly doubled blood folate levels in women capable of pregnancy and dramatically reduced spina bifida incidence. Ezra Susser).

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The long awaited second edition Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications by Herbert Mwebe

The Critical Blog

Whilst there are various alternative interventions to managing moderate to severe mental health presentations, psychotropic medications remain the mainstay interventions used in various clinical settings. The arbiter of whether these medications are useful or not is the person taking the medication.

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CY 2022 Medicare Quality Payment Program for Clinical Social Workers: Frequently Asked Questions

Social Work Blog

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. Adherence to Antipsychotic Medications for Individuals with Schizophrenia.

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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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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., 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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Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?

Society of Clinical Psychology

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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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. Does contact with a person with bipolar disorder improve attitudes about people with “mental illness” more broadly? Corrigan, P. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.62.8.824.