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Contemporary Issues in Understanding Immigrant Mental Health Needs and Challenges

Society of Clinical Psychology

My colleague Dr. Angela Nickerson (Director of the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program and Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales) has recently spearheaded an important briefing paper examining the mental health considerations for forcibly displaced individuals for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Many were here with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, so common following participation in armed conflict and in some cases, the result of physical or sexual abuse. I worked at a university for about ten years. I fretted a lot about my university job and how it had treated me. It was something stable to hang onto. “A

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Outcomes in Anxiety: We’re Halfway There

Society of Clinical Psychology

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) had the highest remission rates (53% and 51%, respectively), whereas social anxiety disorder (SAD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) had the lowest rates (40% and 38%, respectively). in Clinical and Health Psychology from the University of Florida.

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