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This brief note highlights how military experience can intersect with eating-disorder risk, a topic with direct relevance for clinicians across disciplines who work with military-connected individuals. It points to elevated prevalence of disordered eating among veterans and service members, underscoring the need for awareness of military culture, body ideals, and identity pressures as contributing factors in assessment and engagement with clients.

Article Title: Opinion: How the military may be fueling eating disorders in men

Link to STAT NEWS Mental Health Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.statnews.com/2026/06/03/eating-disorders-men-military-troops-veterans/?utm_campaign=rss

#eatingdisorders #militaryhealth #veterans #mentalhealthprofessionals #psychiatrists #psychotherapists #socialworkers #therapists #clinicalawareness #bodyimage

Psychotherapy Commission ACPE May 27

This brief highlights a translational advance that may inform how mental health practitioners think about neuroregeneration and cognitive resilience. The reported enhancement of neural stem cell differentiation into neurons suggests a potential avenue for future therapies aimed at supporting brain repair, which could be relevant for clinicians observing neurodegenerative and mood-related conditions.

Noting the emphasis on bridging vitamin K chemistry with neural biology, the work touches on the interface between nutrition-based substrates and neural plasticity. For therapists and related clinicians, this signals an area to monitor as research progresses, particularly regarding implications for recovery trajectories in disorders where neuronal loss or dysfunction is a feature.

Article Title: Scientists create supercharged vitamin K that helps the brain heal itself

Link to Science Daily Mind-Brain News: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260526233433.htm

#brainhealth #neuroregeneration #neuroplasticity #neurology #vitaminK #neuroscience #mentalhealthresearch #therapists #psychotherapists #clinicalresearch

Psychotherapy Commission ACPE May 26

Join #SIP Training Level 1 online 09/22/26 with Dorothea Lotze! Learn #spiritually integrated psychotherapy & earn 15 #CECredits.

More: http://dlvr.it/TSkVHc

#Clinicians #Psychotherapists #EthicalCare #MindBodySpirit

Psychotherapy Commission ACPE May 22

#SIP Training Level 1 starts 09/22/26 online! Dorothea Lotze, LMFT teaches #spiritual assessment, ethics, & interventions. 15 #NBCC #CECredits.

More: http://dlvr.it/TSgXZt

#Psychotherapists #TraumaInformedCare #HolisticHealth #Wellness

Psychotherapy Commission ACPE May 21

This brief highlights how early exposure to energy-ddense, palatable foods can shape later eating behaviors by altering neural circuits that regulate appetite. For mental health professionals, this underscores the potential long-term implications of early dietary patterns on self-regulation, reward processing, and susceptibility to future weight-related stress, which may intersect with mood and anxiety presentations.

Article Title: Childhood junk food may rewire the brain for life

Link to Science Daily Mind-Brain News: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260520093807.htm

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Psychotherapy Commission ACPE May 18

#ACPE’s #SIP Training Level 1 with Dorothea Lotze, M.Div., Th.M., LMFT begins 09/22/26 online. This 15-hour training is designed for #mentalhealth professionals who want to integrate #spirituality into their #psychotherapy practice.

Course Highlights:
• Foundations and Ethics of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Learn the theoretical and ethical foundations of integrating #spirituality into #therapy.
• Developing Spiritual Conversations in Psychotherapy: Gain skills to initiate and facilitate spiritual conversations with clients.
• Spiritual Assessment: Learn to assess clients’ spiritual resources and struggles.
• Spiritual Interventions: Working with Spiritual Resources, Part 1: Explore interventions that draw on clients’ spiritual resources.
• Spiritual Interventions: Working with Spiritual Struggles: Learn to address spiritual struggles in #therapy.

About Dorothea Lotze:
Dorothea is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Certified Educator of Clinical Pastoral Education (#ACPE). She earned her Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and Master of Theology (Th.M.) in Germany and at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. As Executive Director of the Training and Counseling Center Atlanta (TACC), she prepares clergy, counselors, and lay leaders to provide spiritually attuned care.

Dorothea’s training emphasizes #trauma-informed, systems-oriented, and spiritually integrated psychotherapy. She incorporates Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and mindfulness into her work and is also a Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation teacher.

Training Schedule:
• 09/22/2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
• 09/29/2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
• 10/06/2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
• 10/13/2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
• 10/20/2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST

Cost:
• Member & Non-Member (Code Required): $400.00
• Scholarship: $240.00

Continuing Education:
This training offers 15 #CECredits approved by #NBCC, #ASWB, and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners.

Registration at https://bit.ly/3QPmKFV

More about Dorothea Lotze at: https://bit.ly/4tgme28

More about the Spiritually Integrated Training Program at: https://bit.ly/480y2gL

The #ACPE #Psychotherapy Commission is a community invested in the practice of integrating #spirituality into our work. This work may be done by a volunteer helper, a #spiritual #healer, or a licensed mental health practitioner. We offer training. Learn more at https://sip-com.wildapricot.org.

Blog at https://sip-com.wildapricot.org/news.

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Psychotherapy Commission ACPE May 13

This brief highlights how everyday speech patterns—such as pauses and “ums”—can reflect executive functioning, a core domain linked to memory, planning, and flexible thinking. For clinicians across mental health settings, this connection underscores a noninvasive cue that may inform assessments of cognitive health and early indicators of cognitive decline, prompting timely evaluation and conversations with clients about cognitive aging.

Article Title: Your “um” and pauses could reveal early dementia risk

Link to Science Daily Mind-Brain News: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260512202333.htm

#AI #speechpatterns #cognitivehealth #dementiaearlydetection #executivefunction #mentalhealthprofessionals #psychotherapists #socialworkers #clinicalpractice #neuropsychology

Psychotherapy Commission ACPE May 13

This brief notes the relevance of the provided content for those working in mental health by illustrating a real-world case of long-term antidepressant tapering and the importance of aligning deprescribing efforts with solid evidence. It highlights how patients’ histories—such as decades of medication use—require careful, individualized consideration rather than broad, unsubstantiated assertions. This underscores the value of cautious clinical reasoning, informed consent, and evidence-based decision-making for psychotherapists, social workers, and other mental health practitioners.

Article Title: Opinion: RFK Jr.’s antidepressant deprescribing push gets one thing right — and others dangerously wrong

Link to STAT NEWS Mental Health Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.statnews.com/2026/05/13/antidepressant-deprescribing-kennedy-ssris/

#antidepressantdeprescribing #mentalhealthcare #evidencebasedpractice #psychotherapists #clinicaldecisionmaking #deprescribing #patientcentredcare #longtermmedication #taperingtherapy #statnews