The Critical Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These medicines have been around for over 5 decades with evidence showing that they help to lessen and improve the severity of psychiatric symptoms in people suffering with a mental illness. The arbiter of whether these medications are useful or not is the person taking the medication.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 10, 2020

Several effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exist, yet nearly half of patients continue to have significant symptomatology after receiving them (e.g., These approaches have been shown to be effective in anxiety disorders (e.g., Augmentation of exposure therapy with D-cycloserine for social anxiety disorder.

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Clinical Philosophy

JULY 1, 2019

The 8 chapters of section five look holistically at the different life worlds of persons with different conditions (schizophrenia, mood disorders, hysteria, BPD, addictions, autism, eating disorders). Section six entitled ‘Clinical Psychopathology’ contains 9 essays on different aspects of (mainly) psychotic experience.

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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. 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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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. As you can see, the list is extensive and does not just include psychiatric medications. It frustrates me.no

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 14, 2023

boys with adjustment disorders). is a clinical psychologist and faculty in the University of Utah’s department of psychiatry. Her program of research is focused on improving health outcomes for those vulnerable to self-inflicted injury (SII), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and suicide. Kaufman (Ph.D.) Linehan, M.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 4, 2020

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. Archives of General Psychiatry, 60 , 837-844. Anxiety disorders in youth. Costello, E. Mustillo, S., Erkanli, A.,

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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 it’s depression, eating disorders, addiction… they will be transformational.”

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 19, 2023

Although externalizing problems are a common reason for psychiatric referrals (Connor et al., Biological Psychiatry, 89 (2), 109-118. Adolescents who have difficulties with emotional and behavioral regulation are at elevated risk for externalizing problems (e.g., defiance, aggression, impulsivity, antisocial behaviors). Newcorn, J.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 31, 2017

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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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 16, 2022

Several minority groups develop mental health issues such as affective, psychotic, substance use disorders, and depression at higher rates than whites from discrimination. Their exclusion negatively affects their mental health and creates a lack of worth when they are given harsh judgment or excluded (Psychiatry 2021, 3). Nursing@USC.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 2, 2017

All over the world, people held in our jails and prisons experience far greater levels of mental illness than the general population including PTSD, major depression, psychotic illness and personality disorder (Fazel & Seewald, 2012, Goff et al., Mental disorders in Australian prisoners: a comparison with a community sample.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 14, 2017

An assumption held by many—including many mental health professionals—is that people who suffer from one or more mental disorders constitute a small, troubled minority. Research from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, however, suggests that mental disorders may not be as uncommon as previously thought.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 3, 2018

Cobb Scott discusses a recent meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry that addressed the association between cannabis use and cognitive functioning in adolescents and young adults. Frontiers in Psychiatry , 4 , 53. JAMA Psychiatry. This SCP Blog by Dr. J. References Cited. Bonnet, U., & Preuss, U. Wright, N.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2023

by Nicholas L Balderston Anxiety disorders are among the most diagnosed classes of mental disorders with 1 in 5 individuals meeting criteria for an anxiety disorder within a given year in the US (Kessler & Chiu, 2005). 2007a), obsessive compulsive disorder (Carmi et al., 2019), and smoking cessation (Zangen et al.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2017

Does contact with a person with bipolar disorder improve attitudes about people with “mental illness” more broadly? Psychiatric Services, 62 , 824-826. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 177 , 4-7. Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

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Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them. I want to leave off discussion of philosophical psychiatry's curious use of that preposition for another time; for now the focus shall be on her reading of Laing & Esterson (hereafter: Laing).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 30, 2017

Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 19, 443–453. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 65, 354–364. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 198, 66–72. Effectiveness of an intervention led by lay health counsellors for depressive and anxiety disorders in primary care in Goa, India (MANAS): A cluster randomised controlled trial.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 2, 2019

These people are often incarcerated or, for some who experience mental disorder, detained in secure hospitals for the purposes of incapacitation and rehabilitation. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , 49 , 559-71. Wallinius, M., Lundström, S., Frisell, T., Anckarsäter, H., & Kerekes, N.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 31, 2020

Her research focuses on understanding attitudes toward a range of professional issues (RxP, stigma toward those with mental illness and the transgender community) and evidence-based prevention in the areas of suicide and reducing eating disorder risk. Robiner, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology Review, 33 , 883–900. Muse, M., & McGrath, R.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Buss, BS; Robinson De Jesús-Romero, BA, MsC; Allison Peipert, BS; Isabella Starvaggi, BS Psychotherapy research in the 21st century Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the disability attributable to health conditions (Whiteford et al., References American Psychiatric Association. World Psychiatry, 18 (2), 183–191.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Around 70% of children meet diagnostic criteria for a mental health problem and among adults over 50% receive a psychiatric diagnosis. The study considered different levels of psychiatric care including diagnoses as well as hospitalizations for 11 psychiatric disorders including depression , anxiety , sleep, eating disorders and self-harm.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

is an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. is a clinical research coordinator in the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Related Disorders program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Journal of Anxiety Disorders , 55 , 70–78.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 12, 2019

First, approximately one-third of first-year students report 12-month (31.4%) and lifetime (35.3%) mental disorders, and most of these disorders have onsets during middle adolescence. Not surprisingly, MDD (21.2%) and GAD (18.6%) are the most common lifetime disorders. gender, parental education) and college-related (e.g.,

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MQ Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This blog was written by Dr Zuzanna Zajkowska, a postdoctoral researcher from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and the Assistant Editor of InSPire the Mind. We published our results in the Journal of Psychiatric Research , and in a blog as part of Inspire the Mind (ITM).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 30, 2024

Stites, PsyD, MS, MA Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US Correspondence concerning this article should be sent to Shana Stites, PsyD, University of Pennsylvania, 3615 Chestnut St. British Journal of Psychiatry , 199 (5), 367–372. BMC Psychiatry , 16 (1), 1.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 11, 2018

Denise Sloan and Brian Marx discusses findings from a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry that compares the effectiveness of a brief exposure-based therapy for PTSD with Cognitive Processing Therapy with implications for finding the ‘right treatment dose’ for reducing symptoms. JAMA Psychiatry, 75, 233-239.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Among the studies implementing EBPs, many have focused on training self-selected or nominated clinicians, within a single level of care, to learn an EBP focused on a single-disorder (Karlin et al., Dissemination of evidence-based psychological treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder in the veterans’ health administration.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 13, 2018

Levy, Springer, and Tolin discuss a recent meta-analytic review of remission in CBT for anxiety disorders published in Clinical Psychology Review. . The efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders is well established, at least in terms of pre- to post-treatment reductions in anxiety severity.

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