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Aboriginal mental health issues common | News in Mind
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TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2016. Aboriginal mental health issues common. Aboriginal Victorians are almost twice as likely to have depression or anxiety than non-indigenous people, a state government report shows. A survey on the health of adult indigenous Victorians also found almost one in four Aboriginal people had high or very high psychological distress levels; almost twice that of non-indigenous people. Health Minister David Davis released the population health report on Thursday to mark National Close the ...
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Suicide among elderly increases | News in Mind
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TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2016. Suicide among elderly increases. Common factor is low quality of life! The suicide rate among elderly people in rural China has increased greatly in the past 20 years. Even more shocking is the lack of concern about the deaths, says sociologist Liu Yanwu, who has spent six years studying the issue. Liu, a researcher at Wuhan University, found that the suicide rate among the rural elderly has increased from 100 per 100,000 to 500 per 100,000 in two decades. His investigation has e...
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TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2016. What’s missing in #Budget15 mental health. 15 May 2015 - 0 comments. SANE Australia Survey: Emergency services and mental illness – have your say…. 14 November 2012 - 0 comments. Those Who Are Hardest To Love Are The Ones Who Need It Most. 30 August 2016 - 0 comments. Preventing the (self) stigma of mental illness. 30 August 2016 - 0 comments. Exercising after mentally demanding tasks could help prevent overeating, study finds. 30 August 2016 - 0 comments. How the desire for masc...
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Opinion | News in Mind
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TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2016. Exercising after mentally demanding tasks could help prevent overeating, study finds. A study by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests exercise may be the key to curbing your appetite after a long day at the office. In a paper published this month in [.]. Getting serious about funny: Psychologists see humor as a character strength. The untapped value of positive psychology. Can cycling help with grief and depression? My father Lindsay Fry passed away sud...
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Grief over DSM-V depression criteria | News in Mind
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TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2016. Grief over DSM-V depression criteria. A Sydney psychiatrist has questioned expected changes in the DSM-5 which will allow psychiatrists to diagnose major depression in grieving patients only two weeks after their bereavement. By pathologising and medicalising grief and indirectly encouraging doctors to prescribe antidepressants for it, psychiatrists run the risk of losing a lot of our credibility, he said. In a discu ssion paper published this month in. Scandinavia , Professor.
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General News | News in Mind
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TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2016. Archive for 'General News'. Those Who Are Hardest To Love Are The Ones Who Need It Most. This has never happened before. An Australian Government has been elected by its citizens with a mandate to reduce suicide among fellow Australians. Indeed, the last Federal election saw real and creditable policy responses by both [.]. Preventing the (self) stigma of mental illness. Exercising after mentally demanding tasks could help prevent overeating, study finds. RURAL and regional Queen...
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Motivational Interventions in ERs for Alcohol, Partner Violence Come Up Short | News in Mind
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TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2016. Motivational Interventions in ERs for Alcohol, Partner Violence Come Up Short. A large clinical trial of emergency department motivational interventions for women experiencing alcohol abuse or relationship violence failed to discover a significant improvement over traditional care. Study results appear in. Concerns have been raised that brief motivational interventions for heavy drinking are less effective in women and in victims of violence; our results support those concerns, s...
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Therapies | News in Mind
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TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2016. The untapped value of positive psychology. All we can ever hope to do, Sigmund Freud once wrote, is to change neurotic misery into common unhappiness . This pessimistic statement from arguably the most influential psychological theorist of modern times captured the mood that [.]. Green urbanism and mental health. Former police say insurers made their Post Traumatic Stress Disorder worse. A simple and inexpensive psychotherapy or talking therapy known as behavioural activation (BA...
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Anxiety disorders precede eating disorders | News in Mind
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TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2016. Anxiety disorders precede eating disorders. A high proportion of eating disorder (ED) patients first experience some form of anxiety disorder a new. The analysis of 152 patients 100 eating disorder (in and out) patients and 52 anxiety disorder patients not only confirmed a high prevalence of eating and anxiety disorder comorbidity, but found that 65% of ED inpatients and 75% of ED outpatients reported an existing anxiety disorder prior to ED onset. The PTSD prevalence rate was li...
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