MQ Mental Health

MAY 10, 2022

This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is all about loneliness and its impact on mental health. A study by the Mental Health Foundation and Swansea University , which MQ supported, found that over two thirds of British teenagers reported feeling lonely some or most of the time. But what are the facts?

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Research has shone a fascinating light onto the power costume can have on our mental health. A few years ago, many conversations were had around Halloween costumes where people can dress up as a mental health patient or an ‘asylum escapee’. So it’s worth mentioning clearly - mental illness is not a costume.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This International Men’s Day (19 November) we’re celebrating the amazing achievements of men working in mental health research. We’re focusing on 5 amazing men who have made impact in the world of mental health science. We’re focusing on 5 amazing men who have made impact in the world of mental health science.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 16, 2023

Recently, a systematic review and meta-analysis was published in The British Medical Journal , which looked at mental health symptoms before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. It says that at a population level in these countries, there was little change in the prevalence of mental ill-health. But is this the full picture?

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, MQ’s copywriter Juliette Burton who also works as a writer, comedian, and mental health activist, shares her experience of what happened the day she was sectioned under the mental health act for anorexia. So, I spent my 18 th birthday sectioned under the mental health act in hospital.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

KVC Health Systems is a family of nonprofit organizations working to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. Storytelling’s power is why, each year, KVC Health Systems holds a Story Contest. Submitted by Janny Sivilay, KVC Hospitals.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 26, 2021

According to Dr. John Walkup, chair of the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Lurie Children’s Hospital, 20% of children had mental health challenges before the end of high school, even before the pandemic. Without help, the impact on children’s mental health may be long-lasting or even life-long.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 11, 2021

According to Dr. John Walkup, chair of the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Lurie Children’s Hospital, 20% of children had mental health challenges before the end of high school, even before the pandemic. Without help, the impact on children’s mental health may be long-lasting or even life-long.

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My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

SAMHSA’s National Helpline The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) national helpline can provide more helpful support not only to people struggling with their mental health but also substance abuse (or both).

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The Masked AMHP

MAY 31, 2021

The inquest reported that she was a patient of the local CMHT, and had also been assessed by the hospital psychiatric. She had received treatment at the Emergency Department in Truro three times in 4 days in September 2018. A week later she died of a fourth overdose.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 4, 2024

How did you find out about MQ Mental Health Research initially and the MQ Fellowship opportunity? I already felt moved to push my intervention to better meet the needs of hospitalized teens often overlooked in research, and this call gave me the idea to focus on partnering with youth to do so. Over the next 2.5

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 30, 2024

a licensed clinical psychologist and advocate for Asian American mental health in the state of New York. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Chang earned her B.A. in psychology at New York University , as well as her Ph.D.

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Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Although most mobile psychiatric emergency cases have involved mentally high functioning patients, I’ve been most invigorated from helping the most impaired patients, usually suffering from psychosis. Breakdown is dedicated to this population. .

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. The only ones I could find that took my insurance was a drug and alcohol rehab, that also treated secondary mental health issues. This is a problem.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

MQ is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexandre Lussier from the Lussier Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital has been awarded an MQ Fellowship. Following my PhD, I trained in computational biology and statistical genetics at Cornell University, working on X chromosome variation and psychiatric disease. years ago).

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The effects of Covid-19 on brain function and mental health, as well as the reasons for flaws in diagnosis of psychiatric illness, are all discussed in this episode of the MQ Open Mind podcast. People with a history of psychiatric problems or diagnosis are at an increased risk of having Covid-19 in the first place.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 4, 2024

Women are making history in research, some of them working with MQ Mental Health Research in their work. How did you find out about MQ Mental Health Research initially and the MQ Fellowship opportunity? This week it's International Women's Day (8th of March) and March is Women's History Month. Over the next 2.5

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. A few years later, the parent organization KVC Health Systems was created. Read more about KVC’s mental health treatment services here.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

New Research: LGBTQIA+ Youth Mental Health & How You Can Help. A shocking 42% of LGBTQ youth considered suicide in the last year, and 70% of LGBTQ youth reported poor mental health throughout most of the pandemic. But when she came to KVC Hospitals, she received comprehensive medical and psychiatric treatment.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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University of Connecticut

JULY 17, 2023

Name : Sevasti Galanis, '19 MSW Profession/Field : Forensic Social Work Bio and Key Accomplishments : Seva works full-time for the CT Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services at Whiting Forensic Hospital as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She also works at Turning Leaves Counseling as a psychotherapist part-time.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

You can see, the figures are high and this also shows there is a mental health emergency. In Nigeria for instance, lack of professionals to diagnose mental health issues is one of the major issues facing the country and with an estimate of over 200 million people but less than 300 psychiatrists. Information is key.

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Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

I started doing an inventory: I launched my own mental health consulting business, completed a few training sessions, quickly boosted my professional network, got involved in various projects and the list goes on. Not another mental health diagnosis and medication! referring to my worst mental health challenges).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 7, 2021

Often times the field of clinical psychology assumes a “deficit-based” approach to minority mental health. Over-emphasizing deficits in minority mental health can be problematic for two central reasons. Over-emphasizing deficits in minority mental health can be problematic for two central reasons.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 12, 2024

One of the first ever MQ Fellows selected was Dr Joshua Roffman from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. At that point in my career, I was experienced enough to know that I needed to shift my focus to achieve greater public health impact – to the area of prevention, where there is tremendous unmet need in psychiatry.

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Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 7, 2024

It is understandable because they have to watch out for their own mental health. It is when that happens, I don’t listen to reason, get into fights, do things I regret later, hurt the people I love and sometimes even end up in a psychiatric hospital. He gets anxious when I am manic and his mental health suffers.

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MQ Mental Health

JUNE 14, 2023

Prejudice and stigma Undeniably in recent years there has been a considerable improvement regarding attitudes towards mental health and mental illness. Moving ever deeper into a mental health pandemic we see the care and money that should be invested by government shrinking rather than building.

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

KVC hosts this event every October to thank the generous supporters who have enabled the nonprofit organization to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help people achieve mental health wellness. During this time, KVC Health Systems’ nearly 1,500 team members across the U.S.

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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).

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 12, 2023

When our self-esteem takes a blow , it can affect everything in our lives, including how we feel about ourselves, our jobs, our physical appearance, and our mental abilities. Rebecca Gerwitz is executive director of NASW-MA: Our View: Mental health hotline a solid step forward. Gloucester Daily Times. My Central Jersey.

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I’ve worked as a lecturer in medical school, a trainer of nurses in rural South Africa, and — since immigrating to Canada — a public health consultant with Indigenous communities. I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder?

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 29, 2022

Mayor Adams, NYC Health + Hospitals Announces $1 Million Anonymous Donation to Launch Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Behavioral Health Professionals. faces a national mental health professional shortage. These two mental health professionals met on Facebook and immediately clicked.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 31, 2022

What about mental health care? While the perpetrators of school shootings have exhibited what might be mental health problems (which often are undiagnosed or treated), in general, people who have mental health illnesses are more likely to be victims of violence than to inflict violence.

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 8, 2022

Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital adds social work fellowship program. Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital (VPH) has launched a new social work fellowship which will prepare master’s degree-level graduates for social work in the behavioral health field. She will succeed Mildred “Mit” Joyner, DPS, MSW, LCSW.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

For more than 50 years, KVC Health Systems has provided heart-centered service to children and families. These services strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. KVC Health Systems’ local subsidiaries are: KVC Hospitals. KVC Kansas.

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KVC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Bullying Led My Daughter to Depression & Psychiatric Hospitalization: How She Achieved Mental Health Wellness [VIDEO]. The bully’s attempts to antagonize another child or person can come from a variety of motives. Why Do Kids Bully? . The reasons children bully can be difficult to pinpoint.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

She also expanded community partnerships, such as collaborating with Global Orphan Project’s CarePortal to create Protective Homes in Kansas and working with community mental health centers and churches to strengthen families and safely prevent children from entering foster care. Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices.

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