article thumbnail

What is a Rehab Center

Sober Courage

Rehabilitation centers for Substance Use Disorder (SUD), commonly known as rehabs, are specialized facilities that provide comprehensive treatment and support for individuals struggling with drug or alcohol addiction.

article thumbnail

The Pandemic and Your Kids

Gary Direnfeld

There I took an elective in psychology and with that applied as a mature student to York University. Married and moved to Hamilton, I took a job at a hospital based brain injury rehabilitation program. I have developed and managed two brain injury rehabilitation programs, both lost owing to legislative changes to auto insurance.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Dealing with the Emotional Fallout of Physical Sports Injuries

Beautiful Voyager

Keagen Hadley , a doctor of occupational therapy specializing in psychological treatments such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). This experience made him acutely aware of the struggles associated psychologically post-ACL injury and how to overcome them with positive results. What kinds of people do you work with?

article thumbnail

Ideological Bias in Social Sciences and Implications for Clinical Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

Over the decades, the American Psychological Association (APA) and other professional psychology organizations have provided considerable leadership towards the advocacy of equality. treatment recommendation in APA 2018 Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men). Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice , e12312.

Clinic 64
article thumbnail

Violent offender treatment effectiveness: What we know and where to from here?

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP Blog piece by Drs Papalia, Spivak, Daffern, and Ogloff discusses a recent meta-analytic review of psychological treatments for violent offenders published in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. We found and analysed 27 controlled evaluations involving more than 7,000 violent offenders.

article thumbnail

Can Happiness Make Us Healthier? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Society of Clinical Psychology

We designed a 12-week positive psychological intervention—ENHANCE—focused explicitly on increasing happiness rather than treating mental illness. In a paper published in the journal Psychological Science , we found that our positive psychological intervention had beneficial effects on self-reported physical health (Kushlev et al.,

article thumbnail

Episode: Dr Max Taquet and Why Some People Develop Brain Fog

MQ Mental Health

That doesn't really matter in some ways since treatment is very much the same both psychologically and medically. Max offers plausible explanations for the above, including biological causes, such as inflammation or the impact of psychiatric disorders on the immune system, and also psychological and social. “It