MQ Mental Health

MARCH 2, 2022

A first of our series where we aim to demystify mental illnesses. An eating disorder is when a person has an unhealthy relationship with food, which can take over their life and make them ill. Here are five myths about eating disorders: Myth: Only women can develop eating disorders.

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Famcare

JUNE 29, 2023

Mental health issues have been identified in more than 50 million Americans. The most prevalent mental ailment among Americans is depression, but they also have bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, OCD, and PTSD.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

NASW recognizes June as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. Social workers are the largest group of mental health providers in the United States and treatment of PTSD is one of their specialty areas. Treating PTSD and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure. June 7, 2022.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 16, 2023

Recently, a systematic review and meta-analysis was published in The British Medical Journal , which looked at mental health symptoms before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. It says that at a population level in these countries, there was little change in the prevalence of mental ill-health. But is this the full picture?

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This International Men’s Day (19 November) we’re celebrating the amazing achievements of men working in mental health research. We’re focusing on 5 amazing men who have made impact in the world of mental health science. We’re focusing on 5 amazing men who have made impact in the world of mental health science.

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MQ Mental Health

JUNE 14, 2023

MQ supporter Giles Addison kindly shared his personal experience of being diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder. Giles’ condition is related to but separate as a diagnosis from both Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder. If I’m in a mental health unit it’s more likely to be, aside from my incredible family, one visitor a week.

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The Critical Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This jargon-free book is suitable for all trainee and registered health professionals who require knowledge and understanding of drugs used in the treatment of mental health conditions for prescribing or administering purposes. The arbiter of whether these medications are useful or not is the person taking the medication.

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2023

Whether this comes in the form of bullying, abuse, loss of loved ones, childhood trauma negatively affects children’s mental health and creates lifelong mental and physical health conditions. The benefits of CBT for kids and teenagers For kids and teens struggling with their mental health, CBT offers many benefits.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Investigating transdiagnostic factors across mental disorders is of high importance as transdiagnostic factors can be targeted for both diagnosis and treatment in a diagnostically mixed sample. As depression, anxiety and eating disorders are highly comorbid illnesses that share a multitude of risk factors (McGrath et al.,

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 10, 2022

This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is all about loneliness and its impact on mental health. A study by the Mental Health Foundation and Swansea University , which MQ supported, found that over two thirds of British teenagers reported feeling lonely some or most of the time. But what are the facts?

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The Masked AMHP

MAY 31, 2021

The inquest reported that she was a patient of the local CMHT, and had also been assessed by the hospital psychiatric. She had received treatment at the Emergency Department in Truro three times in 4 days in September 2018. A week later she died of a fourth overdose.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 16, 2022

When it comes to our mental health, every person has different resources for managing it and coping. Adverse Childhood Experiences may challenge a person’s mental health every day, from waking up to falling asleep. No doubt these are harming our nation’s mental health. The current mental health system.

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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. People with a history of psychiatric problems or diagnosis are at an increased risk of having Covid-19 in the first place.

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MQ Mental Health

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Researchers found that young people with joint hypermobility were more likely to have depression and anxiety , and that psychiatric symptoms were also more severe among hypermobile participants. It is therefore important to identify the factors that may increase the risk for these disorders.

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The Masked AMHP

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This video is about an unusual dilemma I found myself in while working in a Community Mental Health Team. One day, I was asked to follow up a patient who had recently been discharged from the local psychiatric unit. Looking at her discharge notes, I saw that she had been born with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

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Blurt It Out

JANUARY 2, 2024

In short, individuals with certain mental health conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders can request that their ESA be allowed to live with them. It is important to note that a psychiatric service animal is not the same as an emotional support animal. Psychiatric service animals are protected by the ADA.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 26, 2023

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the George Floyd Uprising, and the Stop Asian Hate movement, ethnically and racially marginalized individuals in the United States need access to quality mental health care now more than ever. Department of Health and Human Services, 2019).

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 5, 2022

Lea Milligan, CEO MQ Mental Health Research . 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.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In short, individuals with certain mental health conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders can request that their ESA be allowed to live with them. It is important to note that a psychiatric service animal is not the same as an emotional support animal. Psychiatric service animals are protected by the ADA.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In short, individuals with certain mental health conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders can request that their ESA be allowed to live with them. It is important to note that a psychiatric service animal is not the same as an emotional support animal. Psychiatric service animals are protected by the ADA.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In short, individuals with certain mental health conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders can request that their ESA be allowed to live with them. It is important to note that a psychiatric service animal is not the same as an emotional support animal. Psychiatric service animals are protected by the ADA.

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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). Suicide research is definitely underrepresented in the mental health world, as it is a difficult topic to approach and study.

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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. I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 7, 2021

Often times the field of clinical psychology assumes a “deficit-based” approach to minority mental health. Over-emphasizing deficits in minority mental health can be problematic for two central reasons. Over-emphasizing deficits in minority mental health can be problematic for two central reasons.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 31, 2017

Do Beliefs About Biology Matter for Mental Health? Imagine that you have just visited a mental health professional and received a diagnosis of depression. Would you feel better, or worse, after being given a biological explanation for your disorder?

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Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

I started doing an inventory: I launched my own mental health consulting business, completed a few training sessions, quickly boosted my professional network, got involved in various projects and the list goes on. Not another mental health diagnosis and medication! referring to my worst mental health challenges).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 9, 2023

Trauma exposure takes a toll on societies and individuals, leading to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for a sizable minority of individuals (Magruder et al., References American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.). Bomyea et al., Banducci, A.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 12, 2024

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. first appeared on MQ Mental Health Research. The post American Dreams: What’s It Like To Be An MQ Research Fellow In The USA?

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inSocialWork

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Helping professionals and students of all stripes are familiar with the various iterations of the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders now in its 5th edition. It’s pretty much the bible for the classification of psychiatric disorders in the U.S.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Psychiatric service dogs are still within the definition of a service animal. Therefore, your psychiatric service dog can still accompany you in the cabin. Photo: Team Design Emotional support animals provide therapeutic companionship to people with mental health disabilities.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Psychiatric service dogs are still within the definition of a service animal. Therefore, your psychiatric service dog can still accompany you in the cabin. Photo: Team Design Emotional support animals provide therapeutic companionship to people with mental health disabilities.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Psychiatric service dogs are still within the definition of a service animal. Therefore, your psychiatric service dog can still accompany you in the cabin. Photo: Team Design Emotional support animals provide therapeutic companionship to people with mental health disabilities.

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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. Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Psychosis, e.g., paranoia, hallucinations, or delusions.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

You can see, the figures are high and this also shows there is a mental health emergency. In Nigeria for instance, lack of professionals to diagnose mental health issues is one of the major issues facing the country and with an estimate of over 200 million people but less than 300 psychiatrists. Information is key.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, I do feel a responsibility to caution you about taking psychiatric medications without doing research about side effects and become familiar with the signs of tardive dyskenisia. One thing that is REALLY important is that if you and your mental health professional decide you need to go off a causation drug, you taper off VERY slowly.

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Relias

JULY 13, 2023

Although many older adults remain mentally healthy, the World Health Organization says about 15% of adults over 60 have a mental disorder. Yet many older adults may go undiagnosed and untreated because of misinformation, false beliefs about aging, and the stigma associated with mental health issues, as Daniel D.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Summary - There is significant overlap between OCD and other psychiatric disorders - While ERP and SSRIs are the gold standard for addressing OCD behaviors, it is also important to address other underlying issues which may contribute to neurotransmitter disruption.

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