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Why don’t people receive a psychosocial assessment in emergency departments after self-harm?

The Social Care Elf

Amelia Talbot looks at a recent qualitative study of patient and carer perspectives, which explores the reasons why some patients do not receive a psychosocial assessment in emergency departments following self-harm. The post Why don’t people receive a psychosocial assessment in emergency departments after self-harm?

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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. Better understanding of interplay between biomarkers & psychosocial risk factors Cortisol-trauma relationship in suicide risk. App co-design 6.

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2022 International Women’s Day

MQ Mental Health

Since then Bronwyn has become an Associate professor and has received the Aubrey Lewis Award from Biological Psychiatry Australia. “I I have found MQ as a whole organisation to be extremely supportive.

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Do Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Based Interventions Decrease Adolescent Externalizing Symptoms? A Meta-Analysis

Society of Clinical Psychology

Biological Psychiatry, 89 (2), 109-118. Evidence-based psychosocial treatments for adolescents with disruptive behavior. References Andrews, J. P., & Blakemore, S. Navigating the social environment in adolescence: The role of social brain development. link] Connor, D. Newcorn, J. Saylor, K. Scahill, L., Jensen, P. Vitiello, B.,

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Inequality of Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

A report by the UN Human Rights office showed people with mental health conditions and those with psychosocial disabilities experience disproportionately higher rates of poor physical health; and have a reduced life expectancy – a 20-years fewer for men and 15 years for women - compared with others in the population.

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

I want to leave off discussion of philosophical psychiatry's curious use of that preposition for another time; for now the focus shall be on her reading of Laing & Esterson (hereafter: Laing). Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

The psychosocial effects of deployment on military children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 49 , 310–320. General Hospital Psychiatry , 35 , 556–560. Effect of parents’ wartime deployment on the behavior of young children in military families. Johnson, P. L., & Middleton, L.