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Mental wellbeing can, and should, be assessed in clinical samples

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Before you continue reading this blog, take a moment and reflect for one moment: what do you, as a clinical psychologist, use as a criterion for recovery or therapy success? What would it mean for clinical psychology if we maintained an intentional focus on both treating mental illness and promoting mental wellbeing?

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How do we know when posttraumatic stress disorder is getting better?

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes a great deal of mental and physical distress, and can significantly reduce a person’s quality of life. In our study, we systematically reviewed definitions of response and non-response in all clinical trials testing PTSD treatments over the past few decades. Definition. Treatment response.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

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This SCP Blog post by Brittany Speed, Brandon Goldstein, and Dr. Marvin Goldfried discuss their recent publication in CP:SP addressing the role of assertiveness training in clinical psychology. During the 1970s and 1980s, assertiveness training occupied a prominent role within clinical behavior therapy. aggressive).

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Harnessing cultural identity as a protective factor in minority mental health: Applications to children and families

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Often times the field of clinical psychology assumes a “deficit-based” approach to minority mental health. Consistent with previous work highlighting the importance of adopting a strengths-based framework for minority mental health (e.g., What does it look like in clinical practice? Gaylord-Harden et al., About the Authors.

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

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Buss, BS; Robinson De JesĂşs-Romero, BA, MsC; Allison Peipert, BS; Isabella Starvaggi, BS Psychotherapy research in the 21st century Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the disability attributable to health conditions (Whiteford et al., 2014), positive psychotherapy (Lopez-Gomez et al.,

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It’s Time for a Change in How We Design, Develop, Test and Disseminate Empirically Supported Treatments

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Collectively, these two influences require us to adopt a very different approach to distributing limited health care resources to the population in need. Folks in psychology may not fully appreciate that the evidence-based care movement actually started in general medicine, before it took hold in clinical psychology.

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Parents on the Brink: Parental Burnout

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2020), much more so than close disorders (Szczygiel et al., Our qualitative or clinical encounters with these parents suggest that severe exhaustion can even render violent parents who have never been violent before and who are philosophically opposed to violence. Clinical Psychological Science, 7 , 1319-1329. Mikolajczak, M.,