Social Work Blog
JANUARY 19, 2023
Monteiro, LCSW The past two years were filled with fear and uncertainty, exacerbating a mental health crisis with an increase in anxiety, depression, suicide rates, and substance abuse. People who need help should turn to trusted sources.
Society of Clinical Psychology
AUGUST 3, 2018
Cobb Scott discusses a recent meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry that addressed the association between cannabis use and cognitive functioning in adolescents and young adults. At the same time, perceptions regarding the risks of cannabis use have decreased (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014).
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Stop Abuse Campaign
MAY 16, 2022
Several minority groups develop mental health issues such as affective, psychotic, substance use disorders, and depression at higher rates than whites from discrimination. Their exclusion negatively affects their mental health and creates a lack of worth when they are given harsh judgment or excluded (Psychiatry 2021, 3). Nursing@USC.
Beautiful Voyager
JANUARY 3, 2022
The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5). Conversely, substance use disorder is sometimes an underlying reason for a mental breakdown. That's the essence of " normal functioning."
Society of Clinical Psychology
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55, 1172–1183. 2011; Stack, Serbin, Enns, Ruttle, & Barrieau, 2010). Improving child and parenting outcomes following paediatric acquired brain injury: A randomised controlled trial of Stepping Stones Triple P plus acceptance and commitment therapy. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12227.
Bipolar Bandit
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Since its original description over 160 years ago, Bipolar Disorder has been a tough diagnosis to make accurately. At different times called “circular insanity,” “manic depressive psychosis,” and “manic depression,” Bipolar Disorder was not officially recognized as a standalone mental illness until 1980.
Society of Clinical Psychology
DECEMBER 21, 2018
One is the sheer volume of people in need of some type of mental health or substance abuse care. Based as they are in the specialist model of mental health care, the empirically supported psychotherapies we have developed are a poor fit for the epidemic of mental health and substance abuse problems that is sweeping over America.
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