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Researcher Leads Study on Long COVID’s Effects on Mental Health and More

University of Connecticut

We are aiming to focus especially on the needs and experiences of Black/African American, and Latine individuals experiencing long Covid symptoms given that the psychosocial impact of long Covid on these populations has so far been understudied,” says Carolan. “We

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A roadmap to prevent people being gone too soon

MQ Mental Health

Now, a new paper published in the Lancet Psychiatry calls for action on a global scale to put an end to the growing mortality rates of people with mental illness and distress. Globally, too many people die prematurely from suicide and the physical health problems associated with mental illness and mental distress.

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Training therapists in evidence-based mental health interventions: What works and what holds promise for the future?

Society of Clinical Psychology

However, despite all her years of psychosocial intervention, she had never received evidence-based interventions for her anxiety. Although evidence-based interventions exist for a wide variety of mental health disorders, they are rarely used in routine clinical practice.

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Before Sending Your Kid to Counseling….

Gary Direnfeld

Counseling is a serious psychosocial intervention. Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. So too with counseling. If not, you are missing many more posts!

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Unprecedented Experiment: Pandemic Initiatives Provide Roadmap to Ending U.S. Child Poverty

Social Work Blog

That figure was reason to celebrate, since childhood poverty, particularly in the first six years of life, is linked to poor adult outcomes, including lower education and higher rates of mental health issues. The record-setting low quickly reversed, however, after Congress allowed the expanded benefits to expire the following year.

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Guest Post: Helping and Compassion Fatigue by Thomas R. Metzinger, LCSW, CCHt (USMC Veteran)

Bipolar Bandit

When handling trauma, therapists, counselors, health professionals, caregivers, and others that are helping, seek to understand the person, get a pulse on the crisis, engage in triaging the most devastating issues, and offer interventions that help to restore, or create in some cases, stability.

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Targeting Anxiety Sensitivity in Prevention Treatments: A Meta-Analysis

Society of Clinical Psychology

Importantly, anxiety sensitivity is a malleable risk factor that can be addressed with a range of short-term interventions, making it a potentially important treatment target for both intervention and prevention efforts. The interventions additionally needed to be brief: six sessions or less.

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