Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
April, 2016
Why is infant mental health important?
Why is infant mental health important? The relationship between any particular early experience and later infant outcome is not a simple linear one (Zeanah, Boris & Larrieu, 1997). Development proceeds as a complex series of interactions between the innate qualities of infants, their experiences in interaction with their physical and social world, and their capacity […]
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What is infant mental health?
Infant mental health is a multidisciplinary field of research and clinical practice. It is an area of rapidly expanding knowledge and of innovation in clinical interventions. At its core is recognition that infancy is a foundational developmental period, physically, psychologically and socially, that infant development occurs within the context of key caregiving relationships, and that […]
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American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) has developed a Web-based depression screening instrument in which an experienced clinician reviews responses and sends a personalized, confi dential assessment to the student’s self-assigned user name on the website. Students whose responses suggest signifi cant psychological diffi culties are urged to meet […]
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Practice recommendations for suicidal patients
Working with suicidal patients is often diffi cult and psychologically draining. More often than not the clinician is working at two levels at once. Suicidal patients almost always have an underlying psychological or psychiatric disorder which fi nds expression in suicidal behavior. Hence the clinician must treat the underlying emotional, cognitive, or perceptual dysfunction. At […]
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Medications for Depressive Disorders
Medications for Depressive Disorders Of all the medications for the treatment of psychiatric disorders and dysfunctions related to suicidality, I will focus solely on antidepressants, because studies consistently fi nd that affective disorders are the most common diagnoses related to suicide. There are well over 20 antidepressants currently available, only a few of which are […]
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Psychopharmacology for suicide: general considerations
Psychopharmacology for suicide: general considerations Medications and medication management may be helpful with certain diagnostic conditions and related symptoms associated with suicidality (Maris, Berman, & Silverman, 2000). In these cases, symptom reduction is necessary for cognitive, behavioral, or verbal modes of clinical intervention to succeed. One of the most exciting advances in understanding the genetic […]
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Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality
Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality This approach is a novel clinical protocol designed to quickly identify and effectively engage suicidal outpatients in their own clinical care (Jobes, 2000, 2003b; Jobes & Drozd, 2004). The approach taken by collaborative assessment and management of suicidality (CAMS) emphasizes a thorough and collaborative assessment of suicidality at every […]
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Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for suicidal behaviors
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for suicidal behaviors Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) (Linehan, 1993a, 1993b) is an evidencebased outpatient psychotherapy for chronically “parasuicidal” adults diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Parasuicide is defi ned as acute, deliberate nonfatal self-injury or harm that includes suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injurious behaviors (Linehan, 1993a). Suicidal behaviors are considered to be […]
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for suicide attempters
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for suicide attempters Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been shown to be an effective intervention for depressive symptoms (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1978, 1979; Clarke, Rohde, Lewinsohn, Hops, & Seeley, 1999). Cognitive therapy postulates three primary areas of maladaptive thinking: (a) the “cognitive triad”: the idiosyncratic and negative view of self, experience, […]
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Empirical treatment literature for suicidal behaviors
Empirical treatment literature for suicidal behaviors Much of the limited suicide treatment literature is not specifi c to the late adolescent and young adult suicidal patient. Indeed, in general there has been a lack of research in the treatment of suicidality (Hawton et al., 1998; Linehan, 1997; Rudd, 2000). Linehan (1997) scrutinized all investigations that […]
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