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Women Working In Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

In 2014, Dr Andrea Reinecke (UK) developed a life changing intervention for panic disorder that combined CBT and a blood pressure drug into a treatment that only needed to be. Professor Petra Vértes (UK) used genetics to improve understanding of the biological underpinnings of Schizophrenia in 2017.

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Synthesizing Findings on Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors

Society of Clinical Psychology

Scientists have dedicated a tremendous amount of effort and resources toward understanding potential risk and protective factors for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB). cognitive inflexibility) may use the same strategy again and again to approach a problem, even when that strategy is ineffective or harmful.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

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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My Mental Health is Bad! Why and What Now?

Stop Abuse Campaign

While research shows that some risk factors, such as ACEs and childhood trauma , may predispose someone to develop conditions like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, addiction, and bipolar disorder, it does not mean that these conditions are inevitable. Your mental health care: Breaking the cycle of trauma. Understand your ACEs.

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

This focus continues in work targeted towards the mental health of children and young people, not only in studies such as Professor Andrew Thompson who in 2016 involved young people in the design of his study which developed a successful VR intervention for psychosis and schizophrenia, but also in the MQ Young Person’s Advisory Panel.

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

This focus continues in work targeted towards the mental health of children and young people, not only in studies such as Professor Andrew Thompson who in 2016 involved young people in the design of his study which developed a successful VR intervention for psychosis and schizophrenia, but also in the MQ Young Person’s Advisory Panel.

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R U OK? Focus on Suicide Prevention

Psychological Health Care

Other mental health conditions such as anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Talking about being a burden eg “Things would be better if I wasn’t here.”. Withdrawing from friends and family. Changes in sleep patterns — having trouble sleeping or sleeping excessively. Increased use of alcohol or drugs.