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Training therapists in evidence-based mental health interventions: What works and what holds promise for the future?

Society of Clinical Psychology

During that time, she had been having several panic attacks per day and met criteria for multiple anxiety disorders. By the time she presented to the specialty clinic, she had seen a number of therapists and had little hope for improvement, stating that “nothing worked before.” These early reviews concluded that self-study (e.g.,

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How Stress Can Affect Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

And when I was sectioned under the mental health act for eating disorders aged 17, the stress of this psychosocial transition was likely the cause of my subsequent psychosis which involved hallucinations and deeply troubling experiences I’m still, 20+ years later, processing.

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NASW Member Voices: Considering a career in addiction social work? Here is what you should know

Social Work Blog

One can be diagnosed with a substance use disorder if he or she meets a certain criterion determined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5). Methadone is a treatment for opiate use disorder and has been around since the 1950s. What are Opiates? Getty Images.

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The Promise of Transdiagnostic Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

Society of Clinical Psychology

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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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

In other words, how similar are the individuals diagnosed with a given disorder in clinical practice to those who are diagnosed in research settings? eating disorders showed strong agreement), the overall conclusion was that the correspondence between research and practice diagnoses was strikingly low for most disorders.

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