March 2013 – DBSA San Gabriel Valley

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Domestic Violence Resources

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Information and resources on domestic violence. […]

Structured Interview Guide for the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale

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The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) is the most widely used scale for patient selection and follow-up in research studies of treatments of depression. Despite extensive study of the reliability and validity of the total scale score, the psychometric characteristics of the individual items have not been well studied. In the only reliability study to report agreement on individual items using a test-retest interview method, most of the items had only fair or poor agreement. Because this is due in part to variability in the way the information is obtained to make the various rating distinctions, the Structured Interview Guide for the HDRS (SIGH-D) was developed to standardize the manner of administration of the scale. A test-retest reliability study conducted on a series of psychiatric inpatients demonstrated that the use of the SIGH-D results in a substantially improved level of agreement for most of the HDRS items. […]

Support Group Guidelines

January 11, 2014 Comments Off

1. What is said here stays here. This is the essential principle of confidentiality and must be respected by all. Raise your hand and wait your turn to be called upon. No one person should […]

Facilitator Support Meeting Protocols

August 15, 2013 Comments Off

DBSA recommends that we begin each group by reviewing these facilitator support meeting protocols and guidelines to help participants learn and commit to the group standards. Share the air. Everyone who wishes to share has […]

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Many people never start meditating because they think it takes years of practice to achieve any benefits. New research proves it actually takes fewer than 7 minutes. Here's why.

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Doctors once used drugs like LSD not to heal mental illness, but to induce it. Here's how a forgotten research program used LSD to understand schizophrenia.

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Month: March 2013

Domestic Violence Resources