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Monday May 12, 2008

Featured Member of the Week: Julie A. Hanks, LCSW

With a practice in Salt Lake City, Julie Hanks is particularly passionate about working with young adult women, helping them with such issues as relationship problems, eating disorders, mood disorders, postpartum depression, pre-marital counseling, past substance abuse, and adjustment to life transitions.
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Featured Columns


  Getting a Loved One to Change
By Jim Weinstein, MBA, MFT

The truth is that people are rarely unaware of the negative consequences of their behavior. It's far more likely that either they see no alternative to that behavior, or that they're using it to cover up/compensate for feelings of fear, shame, guilt, anger, or jealousy. Therefore, a lecture (no matter how well-intentioned or gently delivered) is unlikely to help them to change.

Martin, Bobby, and Aeschylus
By Dr. Bradley Olson

That awful summer 40 years ago, that summer which witnessed or gave birth to–-I don’t know which–-a summer of tremendous, violent convulsions and transformations around the world was made more terrible for me by the sudden, unexpected death of my grandfather. I was a child, awash in death that summer--the deaths of Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, and my grandfather--death that seemed completely senseless and unsettling.

The Dark Side of Prescription Drugs
By Patti Geier, LCSW

Prescription drug addiction usually begins by genuinely needing the drug that's been prescribed for medical reasons...but somewhere along the line it progressively turns to the regular use/abuse of the medication in an attempt to satisfy emotional and psychological needs.


In the News...


  Unemployment, Chronic Pain and Depression Can Be Inextricably Connected
After relationship difficulties, unemployment is the most likely thing to push someone into a bad depression. This isn’t surprising, since work is often a significant source of an individual’s sense of worth and self-esteem. For many, depression first shows up in physical symptoms, such as headaches, gastrointestinal distress, and sexual dysfunction.

PTSD Can Lead to a More Severe Course and Worse Outcomes When Coupled With Substance Abuse
The first multi-center study (results published in March 2008 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research)of PTSD among individuals seeking treatment for an SUD has found a greater prevalence of PTSD among those who were drug- rather than alcohol-dependent, and that having PTSD was associated with a more severe course and worse outcome for an SUD.

Genetic Variation May Influence Response to Depression Treatment
Scientists have limited knowledge of how certain genes affect individual response to antidepressant treatment. A new study published February 20, 2008, suggests variations in a gene known as TREK1 may explain some forms of treatment-resistant major depression

New Therapies Show Promise for Vascular Depression for the Elderly
Researchers see new treatments on the horizon for a type of depression related to blood vessels that affects the elderly, and have discovered why some elderly people fail to respond to current medications.

Gene Variations and Depression
For what appears to be the first time in humans, scientists have detected an interaction between genes that may help prevent brain changes that increase vulnerability to depression.

Primary Care Doctors May Overlook Elderly Patients’ Mental Health
A recent study's results indicate that primary care doctors need more support in how to identify, treat and refer patients to mental health specialists.

Psychotic Illness is Predictable in up to 80 Percent of High-Risk Kids, Teens and Young Adults
“The message here is that once we identify people as being high risk, we have a very good chance of knowing whether or not they’re likely to develop a serious mental disorder like schizophrenia and that, if they do, it will happen fairly quickly. That’s such a critical window of opportunity for getting them the help they need.”

 


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