| New Inservice Training Manual to Help Improve Treatment Practices for People with Co-occurring Disorders
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| 2007-10-04 |
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Provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment, TIPs are best-practice guidelines for the treatment
of substance use disorders. Publications are free for download or in print.
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| Common Errors of Thinking That Perpetuate Misery in Your Life
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| 2007-03-14 |
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Mental Health | Of Interest To Everyone
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Happiness in life can be achieved when you learn ways to break into
negative thinking. Your success in creating happiness if life depends
on your identifying all cognitive errors and interrupting them. Not
only do cognitive errors cause depression and anxiety, they perpetuate
depression, helplessness and anger keeping you from being at peace.
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| Smoking Associated With Suicide in Bipolar Disorder
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| 2007-02-10 |
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Mental Health | Treatment | Treatment Populations
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Findings published in the December
issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry suggest that smoking may
be independently associated with suicidal behavior in subjects with
bipolar disorder.
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| Experience Sculpts Brain Circuitry to Build Resiliency to Stress
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| 2006-12-23 |
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Clinicians Corner | Mental Health | Of Interest To Everyone
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It's long been known that experiencing control over a stressor immunizes a rat from developing a depression-like syndrome when it later encounters stressors that it can't control. Now, scientists funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have unraveled the workings of the brain circuitry that inoculates against such hard knocks - the circuitry of resilience. |
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| Trauma Information Pages - Comprehensive Resources on Trauma, PTSD and Disassociation
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| 2006-11-27 |
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Clinicians Corner | Mental Health
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These Trauma Pages focus primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) and dissociation, whether following individual traumatic experience(s) or a large-scale disaster. The purpose of this award winning site is to provide information for clinicians and researchers in the traumatic-stress field. |
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| The 12 Parallels Between Chemical Dependency and Mental Illness
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| 2006-05-16 |
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Clinicians Corner | Mental Health
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Persons with chemical dependency and mental illness have a number of things in common. Reviewing the parallels can give us new insights into both disorders and those who suffer from co-occurring disorders. |
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| The Value of Positive Emotions
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| 2006-05-07 |
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Clinicians Corner | Mental Health
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Far more emotion researchers have devoted their careers to studying negative emotions, such as anger, anxiety and sadness. The study of optimism and positive emotions was seen by some as a frivolous pursuit. But the positive psychology movement is changing that. Many psychologists have now begun to explore the largely uncharted terrain of human strengths and the sources of happiness. |
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