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05.13.2022
Overcoming Agoraphobia - Q&A
A Q&A with ADAA Member Karen Cassiday, PhD, ACT answering community questions on overcoming agoraphobia.
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05.05.2022
How to Protect Your Family from Horrific News Images – and Still Stay Informed
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a bitter reminder that there is no end to the horrific suffering that humans are sometimes willing to inflict on others.
Blog post
03.15.2022
Mind the Gap: Worsening Black Maternal Mental Health Outcomes During the Pandemic
Pregnancy and childbirth can be a joyous time in a woman’s life but can also be a challenging one. Besides the physical changes that occur during pregnancy and postpartum, about 20% of women may experience mental health challenges.
Blog post
03.11.2022
How Black Women are Harnessing the Power of Racial Identity in the Face of Racism
Our growing understanding of the relationship between racism and health has enormous implications broadly and in relation to minoritized women. Black and Brown womanhood often results in the exposure to multiple oppressive and traumatic experiences uniquely dependent on the intersection among racism, sexism, and violence.
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03.07.2022
Many Ukrainians Face a Future of Lasting Psychological Wounds from the Russian Invasion
“Polina came to our bedroom awakened by the sound of explosions. I didn’t know and still don’t know what to tell her. Her eyes today are full of fear and terror; eyes of all of us.”
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02.01.2022
Managing COVID-19 Fears as Mental Health Professionals
Many mental health professionals are now conducting patient visits virtually. I am one of the only psychologists left in my building who has stayed behind to continue in-person work while abiding by COVID protocols. Since our practice specializes in refractory OCD spectrum disorders and anxiety disorders a lot of the work done at our outpatient clinic requires in-vivo exposures, which cannot be replicated on Zoom.
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01.28.2022
Provider Tips for Promoting Health Equity
Addressing health inequity requires a collaborative effort between many levels of the health care system (i.e., patient, community, provider, hospital, government). However, behavioral health providers and researchers can implement strategies that promote health equity at their level of care.
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01.15.2022
How to Beat the Blue Monday (and Beyond) Blues
While it’s pretty common to have periods of feeling down, sad, or blue, especially this time of year, sometimes it’s more serious than that. Depression is real, and it’s important to recognize it and get proper treatment.
Blog post
12.06.2021
Coping with Grief and Trauma During the Pandemic
As a result of this collective pandemic experience, more of us have experienced loss, both expected and unexpected. How do we manage these feelings of grief and trauma when we are faced with seemingly endless rounds of uncertainty, doubt, and fear?
Blog post
12.02.2021
Women, Unwanted Sexual Attention & Social Anxiety
There is an area of social anxiety that is practically a universal experience for girls and women, yet rarely gets discussed: non-touch unwanted sexual attention.Such experiences happen to all people of all ages, and between all genders. For girls, the incidence is particularly alarming. From puberty to age 18, more than 90% of girls experience such unwanted encounters.
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10.28.2021
It's Not Just OCD About Physical Appearance: Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder
In BDD, people are tormented by obsessive thoughts associated with a part or parts of their physical appearance being flawed in some way, yet these flaws tend not to be noticeable to anyone but themselves.
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08.19.2021
The Aching Red: Firefighters Often Silently Suffer from Trauma and Job-related Stress
More often, people have heard about PTSD in the context of war, with combat-exposed veterans. While combat veterans often return to the normality of the civilian life after deployment, the job of firefighters, police officers and emergency medical services workers involves regular, routine exposure to all types of traumas, for years and decades of their careers.
