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Recovery and Empowerment

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May, 2012 | Vol: 1 Issue: 3

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Learning Objective

Learning Objectives, TCRBH May 2012

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Promoting Empowerment in Clinical Practice

The Carlat Report - Behavioral Health - Empowerment

Empowered clients see—and believe— themselves to be capable of making decisions about their treatment, and are confident that their decisions will help them effectively manage their mental illnesses.

Intentional Peer Support in the Therapeutic Relationship

Peer support has been proven to be extremely helpful for mental health clients, allowing them to meet life challenges and move through difficult times.

Web Only - Online Resources to Help Professionals Help Clients Empower Themselves

The following is a list of online resources to help professionals help individuals with lived experience—who may also be known as clients, peers, consumers or a variety of other terms—empower themselves, or to help these individuals directly.

Expert Q&A

Using Self-Help Skills for Recovery

WRAP is a wellness self-management program. Specially trained instructors who are usually, but not necessarily, peers help people with mental health challenges learn how to personally manage their lives through a series of interactive facilitated group sessions, discussions, and lectures.

Research Update

The Latest Antidepressant Controversy

Two recent papers based on a large dataset from published and unpublished antidepressant trials provided by the manufacturers of fluoxetine (Prozac; 19 trials), venlafaxine (Effexor; 21 trials) and the National Institute of Mental Health (one trial) concluded that antidepressants reduce suicidality more than placebo among adult patients and do not increase suicidality among youth.

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Murray Kumperminc
Murray Kuperminc, PhD, is the editor-in-chief of TCRBH. Dr. Kuperminc is a psychologist in private practice in West Hartford, Connecticut and was the editor of The Complete Practitioner from January 1998 to June 2011.

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