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The long awaited second edition Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications by Herbert Mwebe

The Critical Blog

This jargon-free book is suitable for all trainee and registered health professionals who require knowledge and understanding of drugs used in the treatment of mental health conditions for prescribing or administering purposes. The arbiter of whether these medications are useful or not is the person taking the medication.

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Costume, Cosplay and Dressing Up: Fashion and Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

Research has shone a fascinating light onto the power costume can have on our mental health. Clothing and Psychology The power of costume is apparent in all of our lives. Researchers began using the term “ enclothed cognition ”, to refer to the way clothing influences people’s psychological processes.

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Why Is It So Hard To Ask For Help When Facing Psychological Distress?

Beautiful Voyager

, a new French-Canadian online community that focuses on opening the dialogue on mental health and breaking the isolation. All middle aged (or so) entrepreneur businessmen openly sharing about their journey through mental health challenges, recovery and public disclosure. Speak up, it is your experience, your health.

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News Items – May 25, 2023

Social Workers Speak

News Items – May 25, 2023 Carmen Reese Foster is a member of NASW-TN: Lack of empathy: Growing anxiety and depression follows wave of activism for Black social workers Milwaukee Independent Since the 2020 racial reckoning, social workers have prided ourselves on working to eliminate social justice disparities.

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News Items – May 25, 2023

Social Workers Speak

News Items – May 25, 2023 Carmen Reese Foster is a member of NASW-TN: Lack of empathy: Growing anxiety and depression follows wave of activism for Black social workers Milwaukee Independent Since the 2020 racial reckoning, social workers have prided ourselves on working to eliminate social justice disparities.

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

how they implemented interventions with patients and how they communicated, showed empathy etc.) Björn Bennemann, MSc is a fourth year PhD Student at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Trier, Germany. Journal of clinical psychology , 63 (6), 585-592. in an early session of psychotherapy.

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How to Create a Disaster Behavioral Health Plan

Relias

Disaster behavioral health is a field of disaster response that focuses on the mental and behavioral health of those affected by a disaster. All of these effects of disasters can lead to mental and behavioral issues that further compound the trauma. How disasters can affect behavioral and mental health.