MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder. Earlier this year,  a new paper published in the Lancet Psychiatry  called for worldwide action to stop growing mortality rates of people with poor mental health. What is diabetes? Simply put, diabetes affects the body’s sugar levels meaning they are higher than usual for longer periods of time.

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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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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 16, 2022

Many of our fellow citizens on the street are underpaid veterans who have untreated PTSD, which makes finding a stable job nearly impossible due to the mental health issues they experience. Their exclusion negatively affects their mental health and creates a lack of worth when they are given harsh judgment or excluded (Psychiatry 2021, 3).

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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. Watts et al.). 2012; Nacasch et al.,

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2017

David Barlow and Matthew Gallagher discusses a new article in JAMA Psychiatry pertaining to the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders. Significant progress has been made in recent decades in identifying effective psychosocial treatments for anxiety and mood disorders. Brown et al., Brown et al.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The problem is that our current annual rate of onset of DSM-5 Axis I disorders is estimated to be around 27%; approximately 1 in 4 Americans develop a mental disorder or addiction in any one calendar 12 month period. A brief exposure-based treatment for PTSD versus Cognitive Processing Therapy: A randomized non-inferiority trial.

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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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