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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

These medicines have been around for over 5 decades with evidence showing that they help to lessen and improve the severity of psychiatric symptoms in people suffering with a mental illness. Empathy is a common term we like to use as health professionals to try and live in any of our patients’ sensory modalities through their journey.

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

Beautiful Voyager

All middle aged (or so) entrepreneur businessmen openly sharing about their journey through mental health challenges, recovery and public disclosure. One interesting question raised by the host JF Lacasse was: why is it so hard, especially for men, to talk about their psychological and emotional challenges, and ask for help?

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Costume, Cosplay and Dressing Up: Fashion and Mental Health

MQ 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. Just like an inmate in a prison, those who experience inpatient psychiatric care also might experience a costume of sorts.

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How to Create a Disaster Behavioral Health Plan

Relias

Disaster behavioral health and recovery. Provide Psychological First Aid. Much in the way traditional first aid is designed to relieve the patient of physical pain, Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a program that helps to begin the emotional healing process following a traumatic event.

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What makes mental illness stigma so hard to change (and also to study)?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Casados about her recently published article in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. 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., employment discrimination).