Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 1, 2020

However, this approach is rapidly changing as accumulating evidence shows that loneliness—the distressing feeling that our social relationships are not meeting our needs – has substantial negative impacts on mental and physical health and recovery. For people with psychotic disorders the situation is much worse.

Clinic 52

Clinic Schizophrenia Psychiatry Psychology 52

The Critical Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Nevertheless, I wonder how many of us in our daily clinical practice try to appreciate the challenges and difficulties of firstly living with a complex illness like schizophrenia and secondly, how medications (e.g haloperidol or clozapine) might either worsen or improve the person’s physical, mental and psychological wellbeing.

Mental Health 96

Mental Health Psychiatric Schizophrenia Interventional 96

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).

Disorder 96

Disorder Mental Health Self-harm Paranoia 96

Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 31, 2017

Would you feel better, or worse, after being given a biological explanation for your disorder? Would it speed your recovery, or slow it down? In search of an answer to these questions, we reviewed the literature on what happens when people are given biological explanations for mental disorders.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Psychiatry Clinic Disorder 52

Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2017

The stigma experienced because of one’s mental illness can in turn exacerbate psychological symptoms and deter treatment-use and recovery, thus further compromising an individual’s mental health (e.g., Does contact with a person with bipolar disorder improve attitudes about people with “mental illness” more broadly? Gelder, M.

Psychiatry 59

Psychiatry Schizophrenia Psychology Empathy 59