ADAA Mental Health Blogs for the Public

One of the most worrisome situations that anyone with a job can face is the awareness that your employment might end through no fault of your own. What can you do when your employer announces cutbacks, layoffs, profit loss or restructuring that eliminates your department? How do you cope when you realize your history of good performance reviews no longer protects you from job loss?

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector. In this blog, learn about Hedda Bolgar, PhD, who received her doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1934, published anti-Nazi material and was forced to flee to the USA, where she worked as a psychologist until weeks before her death at the age of 103.

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector. In this blog, learn about Claire Weekes, MD, DSc, who originally studied zoology but made a career change in her 30's to research anxiety and fear in humans.

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector. In this blog, learn about Anna Frued, considered the founder of child psychoanalysis, who created a centre dedicated to child analysis and research which trained the first generation of child psychotherapists to work in the fledgling National Health Service in England.

The internet has changed the way we talk, learn, work, and connect. It has also created a place for abuse, especially against women. This abuse can have serious effects on mental health.

Check out our ADAA members' new books: Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia (Vol 55) - Advances in Psychotherapy Evidence-Based Practice, The Anxiety Busting Workbook for Kids: Fun CBT Activities to Squash Your Fears and Worries, and This is What Anxiety Looks Like: Relatable Stories, Targeted Solutions, and CBT Skills for Lasting Relief - In Conversation with ADAA Member Authors.