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Surprising Ways CBT Therapy Helps Women Overcome Challenges

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From managing societal pressures to developing stronger coping mechanisms, CBT empowers women to take control of their mental well-being. Research shows that women experience higher rates of anxiety , depression , and eating disorders – conditions that respond particularly well to CBT approaches.

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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

Mad in America

His research ranges from Indigenous youth resilience and narrative medicine to the diagnostic metaphorssuch as chemical imbalance or traumathat reshape identity and possibility. If this is true, then I don’t know if we can use these same concepts to fix the structural determinants causing these mental disorders.

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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

structural equation modeling [SEM]) and factor-score representations of hierarchical psychopathology constructs in criterion validity analyses. Sleep problems commonly co-occur alongside generalized and social anxiety, depression, and eating disorders in young people. Magson, Ella Oar, et al.

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The Best Kids’ Books on Mental Health of 2024

Child Mind Intitute

Anxiety The Worry Monster Written by Dr. Catherine Cook-Cottone, illustrated by Lena Podesta The author (a child psychologist) seamlessly and hilariously weaves anxiety-related coping strategies into this story about an endearing googly-eyed monster who frets about going on a school field trip. Its relatable and easy to follow. Ages 3-7.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

But we know from research that one of the strongest drivers of eating disorders is the thin ideal a cultural standard that equates female attractiveness with thinness. They constructed imagined stories about the persons life, piecing together details based on what they observed during dissection. Consider the 1800s in the U.S.,