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DBT Self-Help App for the iPhone or iPod

djbaxter — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:20:56 +0000

DBT Self-Help App for the iPhone or iPod DBT Self-help is a tool that helps you manage overwhelming emotions, break destructive impulsive behaviors, navigate relationships and cultivate mindfulness. It contains skill descriptions complete with rationale and practice tips that will enable you to develop and practice the needed skills. The skills are based upon the [...]

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Mood 24/7 Beta Test and Survey

djbaxter — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:18:42 +0000

Mood 24/7 Beta Test and Survey Chris Hall, Director, Clinical Platforms HealthCentral September 8, 2010 How many good days did you have last week? HealthCentral is developing a service called Mood 24/7, based on technology from Johns Hopkins University, to allow you to track your good and bad days with a simple text message. We [...]

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Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light

djbaxter — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:02:58 +0000

Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light Vanessa Vega. AMACOM 2007, Hardcover, 240 pages, $13.32 Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light: A Memoir of Cutting, Healing, and Hope is a powerful new book by Vanessa Vega about her journey into therapy for self-injury and an eating disorder. The book is not for the faint of heart: In [...]

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Royal College of Psychiatrists gets it wrong again

djbaxter — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:20:50 +0000

Royal College of Psychiatrists Disappointed At Government’s Failure To Recognize People’s Capacity To Make Decisions For Themselves (04 Jul 2007) The Royal College of Psychiatrists is deeply disappointed that government has failed to recognize that most people who suffer from mental illnesses are perfectly capable of making decisions for themselves, and present no threat to [...]

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The sad state of Canada’s health care system: A rant

djbaxter — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:47:04 +0000

This was inspired by a reaction to a post at the Psychlinks Forum about health care and mental health. At moments like this, I feel like Albert Finney screaming “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more” out the window. “Why are doctors in Canada always in such a rush? [...]

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Bad logic, bad science, and sensationalism

djbaxter — Sun, 13 May 2007 13:06:34 +0000

This is the kind of news release that angers me. Brian Quinn, LCSW, PhD., Author Of A New Book On Bipolar Disorder, Discusses The Risks Of Antidepressants In Angry, Agitated Teens It’s ill-conceived, illogical, and dangerous. It starts with the statement that “Dr. Quinn’s new book reviews the most up-to-date research on the use of [...]

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UK psychiatrists oppose streamlined services

djbaxter — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:22:40 +0000

File under “Whose Interests Are You Really Trying To Protect?” The Mental Health Bill Will Not Help Vulnerable Patients, Say Doctors, UK 25 Apr 2007 With the Mental Health Bill for England and Wales going through Committee stage in the House of Commons, the BMA is concerned that the proposed legislation will harm patients with [...]

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“Junk medicine”: UK debates cognitive behavior therapy

djbaxter — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:47:42 +0000

Junk medicine: Cognitive behavioral therapy November 04, 2006 by Phillip Hodson, The Times Talking cure is cheap The five main mental health charities [in the UK] have announced their support for the planned expansion of NHS psychotherapy, with a broad emphasis on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). But is CBT - a talking therapy that attempts to train [...]

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Promoting stigma: Dumb ideas from “experts”, Part Two

djbaxter — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:31:38 +0000

Recently, I commented on a painfully misguided and misinformed call to remove the term “schizophrenia” as a diagnosis on the grounds that it might be stigmatizing (see Even “experts” have really dumb ideas sometimes). It gets worse: Now we have another so-called “expert” suggesting that schizophrenics have a “choice” as to whether or not to be [...]

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Tonsils, Sleep, and ADHD

djbaxter — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:14:55 +0000

Some years ago, when I was first learning about conditions such as hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder (now merged into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD), the diagnostic instructions used to be that one should not diagnose ADHD until one had ruled out other potential causes of the behaviors and symptoms, which might include depression or [...]

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