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What Is and Is Not a Psychological Treatment?

Society of Clinical Psychology

The Society of Clinical Psychology maintains a list of empirically supported treatments (ESTs), using a set of requirements colloquially referred to as the “Tolin criteria” (Tolin et al., Psychiatric medications, for example, might address psychological problems but are obviously not psychological treatments. in press).

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Movement for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024: Feeling Safe In Your Body

MQ Mental Health

Mental Health Awareness Week is this year 13th to 19th May. For 2024 the theme is ‘Movement for Mental Health’. Movement can have a positive impact on mental wellness whether that be through running, some more gentle activity or even through fundraising for charities such as MQ Mental Health Research.

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Eating Disorders Awareness Week: What Happens The Day Someone Is Sectioned For Anorexia?

MQ Mental Health

This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, MQ’s copywriter Juliette Burton who also works as a writer, comedian, and mental health activist, shares her experience of what happened the day she was sectioned under the mental health act for anorexia. When I was 17 it was decided I was “insane”. I thought.

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5 Myths About Eating Disorders

MQ Mental Health

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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Investigating the transdiagnostic nature of rumination across depressive, anxiety and eating disorders: A meta-analysis.

Society of Clinical Psychology

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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What impact did the pandemic really have on mental health?

MQ Mental Health

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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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

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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