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Friday July 3, 2009

“I have had extensive clinical experience working with a wide range of adult patients in a variety of settings, including two university counseling centers, a hospital (both outpatient and inpatient), and a community mental health clinic on the upper east side of Manhattan. My clinical experience with children and adolescents has included patients ranging in age from four to seventeen who have presented with a variety of difficulties.”

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The Movement of the Soul
By Dr. Bradley Olson

Life’s little, constant challenges are gifts that so often turn out to bestow upon us riches beyond our imaginings particularly because of the leave-takings they initiate. This leave-taking is the soul’s movement. The soul is always, and in all ways, drawing oneself away from comfort, clement familiarity, safety, and plunging one into situations filled with risk, psychic danger, and utter confusion.

CRC Co-Hosting 'Moment of Change' Conference for Recovery Professionals

CRC Health Group is proud to be a co-host of "The Moment of Change Intervention - Approaches for Professionals," a three-day conference that will focus on issues related to intervention, disease concepts, family participation, and practical business considerations.

Recession Survival for Couples
By Michael Radkowsky, Psy.D.

As the recession continues, many couples are struggling. In my office, I see partners fight about how to spend or save; criticize and blame their partners for financial woes; and retreat from each other in silence or anger. What is going on?

Flow of Potassium Into Cells Implicated in Schizophrenia
A study on schizophrenia has implicated machinery that maintains the flow of potassium in cells and revealed a potential molecular target for new treatments. Expression of a previously unknown form of a key such potassium channel was found to be 2.5 fold higher than normal in the brain memory hub of people with the chronic mental illness and linked to a hotspot of genetic variation.

Thinning Tissue in Right Half of Brain Signals Increased Risk of Inherited Depression
Some types of depression run in families, and certain changes in brain structure and function have been observed in people with the disorder. However, until recently, scientists have been unclear on the exact relationship between these brain changes and depression.

Childhood Maltreatment Undermines Physical Health in Adulthood
A recently published study's findings emphasize the importance of having supportive and functional family relationships during childhood. Negative experiences early in life can have long-lasting effects on physical health, in addition to the known mental health consequences.

Getting Closer to Personalized Treatment for Teens with Treatment-resistant Depression
Some teens with treatment-resistant depression are more likely than others to get well during a second treatment attempt of combination therapy, but, as a newly-released study details, various factors can hamper their recovery.

Grants Focus on Innovative Autism Research
The underlying causes of autism spectrum disorders (autism, Asperger’s syndrome and pervasive developmental disorder) are unclear. Currently, there is no cure for the disorders and treatments are limited. National Institute of Mental Health is committed to reducing the burden of autism and related disorders through research that can lead to methods of prevention, recovery, and cure. To accomplish this goal, the Institute recently funded nine research projects.

New Research Report on Comorbidity of Addiction and Other Mental Illnesses
New research report, Comorbidity: Addiction and Other Mental Illnesses, summarizes the state of the science regarding the complex relationship between substance abuse and other mental disorders. The release of this report is timely given the increasing prevalence and link between post traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse.

Suicidal Thinking May Be Predicted Among Certain Teens with Depression
"Because the suicidal events tended to happen early in the treatment process, interventions that address safety, emotion regulation and family conflict should be some of the first to be implemented."