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How Stress Can Affect Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

And then there’s psychological stress, which might be harder than the other stress types to notice and acknowledge. Psychological stress might be cumulative and ongoing, it might be pervasive and come from triggers both obvious or hidden. The decline of my mental health was unexpected, concerning and rapid.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

The theme for Children’s Mental Health Week (5 to 11 February 2024) this year, the campaign’s 10 th year, is ‘My Voice Matters’. Autonomy can positively benefit mental health and lack of independence can, for adults, increase symptoms of depression. Childhood doesn’t usually involve much autonomy.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

The theme for Children’s Mental Health Week (5 to 11 February 2024) this year, the campaign’s 10 th year, is ‘My Voice Matters’. Autonomy can positively benefit mental health and lack of independence can, for adults, increase symptoms of depression. Childhood doesn’t usually involve much autonomy.

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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. Clinical Psychology : Science and Practice.

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2022 International Women’s Day

MQ Mental Health

The MQ Fellows awards invests in early career researchers, giving them the support and funding they need to expand on their research and develop their careers within mental health science. She has also received 9 other awards and recognitions including a prestigious American Association for Psychological Science ‘Rising star’ award.

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Is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Effective as a Standalone Treatment for Substance Use Disorders? An Evaluation Using the Tolin Criteria

Society of Clinical Psychology

How do we know if psychological treatments are effective? we must first answer the following: “How do we delineate effectiveness from non-effectiveness in evaluating psychological treatments?” In other words, how do we know if a given psychosocial treatment is effective for a given mental disorder?

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

Bipolar Bandit

Compassion fatigue causes sufferers to find a way of coping with their vicarious trauma, which manifests as intense emotional, physical, and psychosocial challenges. Self-care practices must include multiple physical, psychological, and emotional components. The goal would be to increase a helper’s fulfillment of their work.

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