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Guest Post: Interview with Merryl Hammond, PD; Author of Mad Like Me and Navigating Bipolar Country

Bipolar Bandit

Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD, Editor of Navigating Bipolar Country and author of Mad Like Me Q: To start, could you tell us a bit about your background and work, Merryl? I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my lifeā€¦ Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder? A few days into the crisis, BANG!

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Depression and suicide risk: An interview with new MQ Fellow Dr Alexandre Lussier

MQ Mental Health

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). How important is investment in research for the progression of our understanding of Mental health conditions and treatments?

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Bipolar Disorder and Student Mental Health (with Dr Anne Duffy) ā€“ MQ Open Minds Podcast

MQ Mental Health

Bipolar Disorder This particular mental health condition and one particular man both had a huge effect on Dr Duffyā€™s career. Dr Paul Grof from the Czech Republic, a classically trained psychiatrist who had dedicated his life to researching bipolar disorder , became Anneā€™s mentor when she was training in psychiatry.

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Art of Diagnosis ā€“ In-person

University of Connecticut

There is a wealth of knowledge about each disorder, but there is a lack of training on what questions to ask a client in order to properly develop a thorough and accurate diagnosis. Clinical diagnosis may seem safe from cultural, political, and social influence, but in fact, it is often guided by these forces.

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

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., Psychiatric Quarterly, 51 (4), 271ā€“279.

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International Menā€™s Day: 5 Men Doing Amazing Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

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 itā€™s depression, eating disorders, addictionā€¦ they will be transformational.ā€ Episodes been downloaded over 10,000 times.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

Whereas the typical research study collects data using either a semi-structured interview administered by a research assistant or a self-report questionnaire completed by the client, the norm within real-world practice settings is to provide diagnoses on the basis of an unstructured clinical interview. 23 (Samuel, 2015).

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