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What impact did the pandemic really have on mental health?

MQ Mental Health

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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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). Several interventions for SITB include strategies to improve cognitive flexibility (e.g., 2006; Park & Ammerman, 2023). Bryan, 2019; Kiosses et al.,

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Can prisoners with mental health problems benefit from psychological therapy? Yes, but health and justice need to be closer friends.

Society of Clinical Psychology

correspondents with a new article in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology titled, “Outcomes of Psychological Therapies for Prisoners with Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. lock downs’) which affect their intervention and studies. This SCP blog by Karen Slade, Psy.D.

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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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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Safety planning has proven an effective means of supporting those struggling with mental health crises, abusive relationships, or other forms of trauma. Psychiatric Advance Directives. Above all, a safety plan is meant to reduce the client’s risk of harm. Provide mental health exercises. Domestic violence.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Safety planning has proven an effective means of supporting those struggling with mental health crises, abusive relationships, or other forms of trauma. Psychiatric Advance Directives. Above all, a safety plan is meant to reduce the client’s risk of harm. Provide mental health exercises. Domestic violence.

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News Items – May 20, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Byrd is executive director of NASW-PA: First, do no harm: Pennsylvania youth deserve protection from conversion therapy | Opinion. Sexual orientation efforts have been discredited or highly criticized by all major medical, psychiatric, psychological, and professional mental health organizations,” Feldman said.