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College Students: OCD 101
You’re not alone if you have OCD. This disorder affects millions of people, and they come from every age group, race, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background. College can be stressful, and it’s not unusual to first experience OCD symptoms there.
What’s Normal and What’s Not?
Everybody worries at times. It’s normal to worry about things like school, how you look, what you said or did in a certain situation, how your parents will react to something you did, or what the future will bring. But OCD takes worries and doubts to the extreme.
Social Support Strategies
Students who have OCD may benefit from social support strategies at school.
Teachers, principals, school nurses, social workers, psychologists, counselors, and paraprofessionals can play a pivotal role in helping a student.
OCD at School
OCD is like an unwelcome guest with bad manners. It moves into a mind — and it doesn’t want to leave.
Clinical Practice Review for OCD
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
For diagnostic criteria and codes, visit the Anxiety Disorders page of the
Michael Van Ameringen, MD, FRCPC
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience
Women & Girls
Children and Teens - Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression are treatable, but 80 percent of kids with a diagnosable anxiety disorder and 60 percent of kids with diagnosable depression are not getting treatment, according to the 2015 Child Mind Institute Children’s Mental Health Re
Redefining My Life
My struggles with emotional and mental problems began at age 12, when I experienced my first nervous breakdown. At age 20 I was diagnosed with major depression. By the time I was 30 that diagnosis had changed to chronic major depression with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Darmouth-Hitcock Licensed Clinical Social Worker(FT), Sununu Youth Services - Manchester + −
This position is located at Sununu Youth Services - Manchester
Responsibilities: A listing of the key responsibilities
- Provides complete psychosocial assessments of clients and families including but not limited to: abilities, aptitudes, interests and motivation, psychological aspects of physical illnesses, accidents, injuries or disabilities and substance abuse/dependencies.
- Evaluates, diagnoses and provides treatment for clients within areas such as anxiety disorders, mood disorders, substance use disorders, aggressive behavior, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD, eating disorders, and developmental disorders.
- Establishes achievable treatment goals with clients utilizing the most appropriate types of psychotherapy (i.e., behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, crisis intervention, family/couples, group, counseling and/or supportive cognitive therapy).
- Observe, describe, diagnose, evaluate, treat, consult, interpret and modify human behavior by applying psychological principles, methods, or procedures to patients who suffer from mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders or disabilities.
- Collaborates effectively with team members when appropriate.
- Documents appropriate objective, concise and pertinent clinical data in the medical record.
- On call duties
- Performs other duties as required or assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in social work from an accredited institution of higher education, including an internship meeting professional standards.
- Must be able to demonstrate that he or she has provided psychological services, on an inpatient, outpatient or consultative basis in the past 12 months.
- Required Licensure/Certification Skills:
- Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in New Hampshire
Primary Location: USA-NH-Lebanon
Work Locations: D-H Lebanon-D-H Clinic One Medical Center Drive Lebanon 03756
Job: Allied Health
Organization: THC Lebanon
Schedule: Regular
Employee Status: Individual Contributor
Contract: Full-time
Thriving Minds - Licensed Psychologist or Therapist, Livonia Michigan + −
Thriving Minds in Livonia Michigan seeks to hire a fully licensed or limited licensed psychologist or therapist. Thriving Minds is an expanding pediatric psychology clinic with branches in Chelsea, Livonia, and Brighton, offering competitive compensation, a flexible schedule, a wonderful team of supportive coworkers, and administrative staff. We have beautiful, large, fully-equipped clinics. Thriving Minds is known locally for excellent, supportive psychological treatment.
Compensation and benefits include competitive pay, group health insurance, paid time off, supervision (if needed), continuing education funds, a steady stream of referrals, administrative staff for billing and an in-house receptionist, and monthly group consultations.
Position requires direct work with child and adolescent population, including psychotherapy and school consultation. Typical population includes children and adolescents (ages 3-20) with anxiety, Selective Mutism, depression, OCD, ADHD, and behavioral management issues.
Strong applicants will have the ability to provide evidence-based interventions and consult with schools and parents. They must also be able to provide excellent therapeutic services independently. We currently have a waitlist and could provide a clinician with immediate patient appointments.
Training and experience in the use of Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are a must. Must be licensed in Michigan (or willing/able to be licensed in Michigan).
Qualified and interested individuals should send a resume or CV with a cover letter to Dr. Andrea Roth at [email protected].
McLean Hospital’s Division of Child/Adolescent Psychiatry - 3 Fellowship positions + −
McLean Hospital’s Division of Child/Adolescent Psychiatry is excited to announce the creation of 3 full-time two-year post-doctoral fellowships designed to launch the clinical research careers of PhD +/- MDs focusing on child, adolescent, and young adult mental health.
These 3 fellowships will provide 80% protected time for research and 20% time for relevant clinical work, designed to allow fellows to design and submit K and related grants, while gaining valuable clinical skills (including hours towards psychology licensure)—both from McLean’s world experts in clinical care and research.
Fellows’ clinical placement will be based on their interests and prior experience and will include one of the following:
(a) McLean’s Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP), OCDI-Jr, and Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program focusing on anxiety and its treatment,
(b) McLean’s 3East Adolescent DBT Continuum focusing on self-harm/suicide, or
(c) McLean’s Southeast Program focusing on unipolar/bipolar disorder, anxiety/stress, psychosis, substance use disorders, and ADHD/neurodevelopmental disorders.
Key research interests include brain, behavior, family, and gene mechanisms underlying developmental psychopathology, “big data”/electronic health records or digital phenotyping, and treatment. Fellows’ research activity will involve combinations of data/mentorship from their clinical placement, Child Division research programs including the PediMIND program (www.PEDIMIND.org), and leading researchers from McLean’s other 6 Divisions.
Psychology candidates must have a doctoral degree in clinical psychology/child psychology from an APAaccredited program and have completed an APA-accredited internship. Physician candidates must have completed an accredited child/adolescent psychiatry fellowship.
How to Apply:
Interested applicants should send their curriculum vitae and cover letter via email to Daniel Dickstein MD—Chief Division of Child/Adolescent Psychiatry and Director PediMIND Program).
Dr. Dickstein is a clinician/researcher with an established track record of early career mentorship— including over 26 mentored grants [7 NIH K/Career Development Awards]).https://www.mcleanhospital.org/profile/daniel-dickstein Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the positions are filled. [email protected]
