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Is Mental Health a Human Right?

MQ Mental Health

World Mental Health Day falls on 10 October every year, and every year the chosen theme aims to highlight or address an aspect of mental health. This year the theme is ‘Mental Health is a Human Right’. And why is mental health one? Why is mental health a human right?

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Prioritizing Mental Health on College Campuses

Society of Clinical Psychology

Increasingly, there is greater awareness that college students have high levels of clinically significant emotional problems, and despite a broad consensus about the need to clarify the scope of the problem and develop actionable solutions, our understanding of college student mental health remains limited. Auerbach, Ph.D.,

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Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

Relias

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), integrated care is defined as “the systematic coordination of general and behavioral healthcare.” The main purpose is to effectively address and treat co-occurring and chronic mental health, substance use, and medical disorders.

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

Sloan is Associate Director, Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD and Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine. She is an expert on psychosocial interventions for traumatic stress disorders and has a specific interest in efficient treatment approaches for PTSD. Psychiatric Services, 65 , 997-1004.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

This blog piece by Dr. Douglas Samuel from Purdue University discusses a recently published article in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. . Arguably the greatest accomplishment in mental health over the past few decades has been the increased focus on providing psychological treatment that is supported by empirical research.

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Parental Military Deployment and Children: What Have We Learned from More than a Decade of War?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Alfano & Simon Lau, Department of Psychology, University of Houston. Consistent with studies documenting an increase in the use of mental health services among children of active-duty service members during the past decade (e.g., Mental health in the at-home parent clearly serves to moderate child outcomes.