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High Functioning Anxiety: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment 2023

Blurt It Out

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [2] , which is the standard classification of mental health conditions, does not specifically include this term. High-Functioning Anxiety Vs. Other Forms Of Anxiety Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by excessive and persistent worry.

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Depression & Perfectionism

Gateway Foundation

Perfectionism personality traits aren’t considered a disorder but rather a vulnerability factor that increases a person’s chance of developing depression and other psychological problems like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, and even addiction.

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Compassion-Focused Therapy Strongly Improves Mental Health Outcomes: A Series of Meta-Analyses

Society of Clinical Psychology

Remarkably, CFT has found application in treating various mental health difficulties, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. link] Discussion Questions Which mental disorders are most greatly impacted by shame and self-criticism? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Farani, A.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety: An Overview and Future Directions

Society of Clinical Psychology

comorbid disorders, family dysfunction), moving the field toward the ultimate goal of person-centered intervention. Prevalence and development of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence. Bergin and Garfield’s Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change (6th ed ed., Anxiety disorders in youth. Costello, E.

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What’s on the Menu: A Scoping Review of Decision-Making in Modular Youth Psychotherapies

Society of Clinical Psychology

What if you could select from a menu to create an effective personalized “recipe” for treating each youth receiving psychotherapy? This personalization is an aim of modular youth psychotherapy, which provides a menu of treatment elements from which therapists select a distinctive combination and permutation for each child or adolescent.

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Towards rigorous and flexible research designs for personalized psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

Flexibility in terms of adaptation to different individuals seeking help at varying psychotherapy contexts. Contemporary research designs, namely ambulatory assessments (AA), network analyses (NA), and single-case experimental designs (SCED), could potentially advance idiographic and nomothetic psychotherapy research and practice.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. Like Thompson, they filled the day with activities that provided structure and predictability, the two things I needed as much as medication and psychotherapy. Schizo-affective disorder? Was I taking any medications? he asked me.