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Guidelines for Psychopharmacological Treatment of Young Children Released - December 12, 2007

In light of a recent increase in the number of children aged 3 to 6 receiving psychiatric medication, medical professionals have released a set of treatment guidelines, published in this month's Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent...
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New Tool For Monitoring Effectiveness Of Teen Counseling - May 17, 2007

Vanderbilt University reports its Peabody College of Education and Human Development has developed a new tool that will enable mental health practicioners to better assess the affectiveness of their services on adolescent patients. The Peabody Treatment Progress Battery, or PTPB,...
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New Credential For Co-Occurring Mental and Addiction Disorders - April 23, 2007

As many as 80 percent of recovering addicts also suffer from mental disorders such as depression or bipolar disorder. At best, these individuals alternate between addiction counselors and mental health counselors, a practice studies have shown to be unsuccessful at...
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Counseling By Phone Found Effective - March 23, 2007

A study of more than 400 depressed individuals has found telepsychotherapy, counseling by qualified clinical professionals given over the phone, to have long-lasting positive effects. Seventy-seven percent of individuals who were given both antidepressants and eight initial sessions of phone-based...
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Empathy and the Neuroscience of Therapy - February 13, 2007

Twenty therapist-patient pairs recently let themselves be wired to skin sensors and videotaped during their sessions in the name of neuroscience. Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) were studying the pairs, hoping to find physiological proof of shared emotions...
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Occupational Therapy Benefits Dementia Patients and Caregivers - November 17, 2006

A study published today by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has found community-based occupational therapy to improve the daily life of patients with dementia and to greatly reduce the burden on their caregivers. Dutch researchers studied 135 patients with dementia...
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Half of Inmates Suffer from Mental Illness - November 16, 2006

A Department of Justice study has shown that more than half of inmates housed in U. S. prisons suffer from mental illness, with 54 percent showing signs of mania, 30 percent depression and 24 percent a psychotic disorder. The study...
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Group Therapy Alleviates Cancer Stress - November 2, 2006

A trial reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry shows that group therapy including cognitive restructuring, relaxation training and coping skills can help reduce overall stress and cancer-related anxiety in women undergoing treatment for breast cancer. One hundred ninety-nine women...
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Schema Therapy Gives New Hope for 'Untreatable' Borderline Personality Disorder - October 11, 2006

A controlled study appearing in the Archives of General Psychiatry shows that Schema Therapy (SFT) is twice as effective a treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder as the widely practiced approach, Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP). Eighty-six Dutch patients with Borderline Personality...
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Therapy Via Video? Rural Patients Sign Up for 'Telepsychiatry' - October 10, 2006

For patients in rural areas of the United States, getting to a therapist once involved hours of driving on country roads. Now thanks to a rapidly expanding network of telepsychiatry centers being set up in rural health clinics across the...
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Employers Take New Interest in Employee Mental Health - August 22, 2006

Many employers are increasing mental health services available to workers as new research reveals the costs of depression, anxiety, and other disorders--not to mention related litigation--can have on the bottom line: The number of firms with employee-assistance programs, which often...
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