Sentences with phrase «understands addiction and mental»

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Conventional wisdom used to hold that it was the changing sex hormones that made kids «crazy,» but scientists now understand that puberty kicks off changes in the brain that make youth more emotionally sensitive, more sensitive to their social world, more willing to take risks, and more vulnerable to mental illness and addictions.

«Many types of important research could potentially be affected by the bill, particularly in the field of neuroscience, where substances with psychoactive properties are important tools in helping scientists to understand a variety of phenomena, including consciousness, memory, addiction and mental illness,» the letter reads.

Bierut: I am trained as a psychiatrist, so I have my medical degree and specialized training in psychiatric disorders such as alcoholism, depression, schizophrenia, and I also have training in genetics so to understand how illnesses are transmitted through families, and so we are trying to look at how mental illnesses and addictions are transmitted in families and understand the underlying genetic causes of them.

to one of the U.S. representatives — Dina Titus (D — NV)-- defending Suomi's work, stating that the research «has enhanced our understanding of and treatments for mental illnesses such as depression, addiction, and autism.»

Translating Neuroscience into Policy and Practice for At - Risk Children Social Work Helper, 8/15/14 Neuroscience has yielded new understandings of how the brain can affect mental illness, addiction, reaction to trauma, and other psychosocial conditions.

It is a national self - learning program designed to provide Canadian lawyers, judges and law students education, supports and resources to assist them in understanding mental health and addiction issues.

... a national self - learning program designed to provide Canadian lawyers, judges and law students education, supports and resources to assist them in understanding mental health and addiction issues.

We understand that unfortunate circumstances can foster temporary parental misguidance and empathy goes to those battling mental disorders or drug and alcohol addiction... however, parental responsibility must ultimately focus on the best interest of their child.

Advances our understanding of the integration of addictions into mental health; psychology of the mind and biology of the brain; models of group therapy; 12 - step approaches and leader led groups; scientific knowledge and clinical wisdom; and, the pivotal role that an understanding of attachment plays in effective group psychotherapy....

Because most mental health professionals receive so little education or training in addiction and it is such a common problem, many of us have had to get additional accreditations such as Registered Addiction Specialists to make sure that we understand couples therapy and aaddiction and it is such a common problem, many of us have had to get additional accreditations such as Registered Addiction Specialists to make sure that we understand couples therapy and aAddiction Specialists to make sure that we understand couples therapy and addictionaddiction.

«The passion for my work comes from a personal understanding of how you're suffering from drug or alcohol abuse, addiction and mental illness.