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Most Teen Mental Health Problems Go Untreated
A Duke University review of a survey involving more than 10,000 American teenagers reveals that more than half of adolescents with psychiatric disorders receive no treatment of any sort. Moreover, when treatment does occur, the providers are rarely mental health specialists, said Dr. E. Jane Costello, a Duke University professor of psychology and epidemiology, the study leader. The country's mental health system has come under scrutiny in recent years following a string of mass shootings in which mental illness seems to have played…
Change Mechanisms of Schema-Centered Group Psychotherapy with Personality Disorder Patients
Background This study addressed the temporal properties of personality disorders and their treatment by schema-centered group psychotherapy. It investigated the change mechanisms of psychotherapy using a novel method by which psychotherapy can be modeled explicitly in the temporal domain. Methodology and Findings 69 patients were assigned to a specific schema-centered behavioral group psychotherapy, 26 to social skills training as a control condition. The largest diagnostic subgroups…
World Mental Health Day: Raising awareness of mental health issues
With approximately 1 in 5 adults in the US experience mental illness in a given year, we are raising awareness on World Mental Health Day with a particular importance being paid to the mental health of young people. Integrative Psychotherapist Michael Shea joined us to discuss the impact of it all.
Depressed women with sexual abuse histories benefit from Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Trauma
Women sexually abused in childhood and adolescence who suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder benefit significantly from Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Trauma, according to a Rutgers researcher.
There Are People Who Care. Find the Right Therapist at GoodTherapy.org.
Don’t give up; there are people who care, and change is possible. Find the right therapist at www.goodtherapy.org/. Therapy can be a tool for healing...
Ten ways e-health and wearable tech can support our mental and physical wellbeing
Technology is enabling always-available healthcare. A version of this article appeared in our latest u‑blox magazine on eHealth. Download your own copy of the magazine today! As you read this article, chances are you’ve already experienced digital healthcare in some form. This could be a wearable fitness band to count the number of steps you walk in a day, monitor your heart rate, or keep tabs on how well you’re sleeping. It might be apps on your smartphone that you use to track…
The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
Could psychedelics help us heal from trauma and mental illnesses? Researcher Rick Doblin has spent the past three decades investigating this question, and the results are promising. In this fascinating dive into the science of psychedelics, he explains how drugs like LSD, psilocybin and MDMA affect your brain -- and shows how, when paired with psychotherapy, they could change the way we treat PTSD, depression, substance abuse and more.
Top 10 Science-Based Health Benefits of Running
Running is one of the most popular and common ways to getting in shape and losing weight. In fact, chances you are a runner yourself (or thinking of becoming one) since you just ended up on my blog, reading this post about running. But its benefits go beyond the scale. In fact, running has the power to prevent a plethora of diseases and just might the best medicine. Well, I’m not saying that because I love running, nor is it because I devoted…
Phone-Based Psychotherapy Helps Depression, at Least in the Short Term
Psychotherapy is one of the more effective ways to treat depression, but there's a hurdle: getting people to seek out and stick with care. A new study suggests that for some patients, receiving therapy by telephone, instead of face-to-face on the therapist's couch, could be a solution.
Topeka event shows mental-health, equine professionals how horses play role in psychotherapy
AUBURN — Nearly 60 mental-health and equine professionals from across the United States hope to pick up a little horse sense during a three-day
Why parents need to understand the growing problem of mental health in their children
From what I’ve learned about mental health in young people, and speaking with those affected, many parents don’t seem to quite understand what it’s all about. Some seem to think their children are looking for attention, while others dismiss their claims altogether. This is a big problem, and it needs to be addressed. Parents need to understand the severity of mental health, and take it more seriously when their children approach them on such matters. It takes a lot of courage to speak…
Mental health on the book shelf: 10 of the best self help books
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and research from hosts the Mental Health Foundation shows that two thirds of us experience a mental health problem in our lifetimes.
9 subtle signs you could have a heart problem
Thanks to more education about healthy eating and advancements in treatment, fewer people die of heart disease than in the past.
