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Heather Rudow October 5, 2012

  • California is set to become the first state to ban gay conversion therapy.
  • New therapy interventions such as mindfulness, guided imagery, somatic experiencing, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing are gaining popularity in the mental health field.
  • Stress and depression can affect rates of cancer survival.
  • Research has found that phone therapy is equally effective as meeting face-to-face with a therapist for most people.
  • An occupation is most rewarding when it matches an individual’s personality traits.
  • Although only a small number of people with mental illness commit acts of violence, when those outbursts do happen, what often rises to the top as a commonality between the events is difficulty in securing effective treatment for these individuals.

Heather Rudow is a staff writer for Counseling Today. Contact her at hrudow@counseling.org.

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