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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes a great deal of mental and physical distress, and can significantly reduce a person’s quality of life. Treatment response. A reduction in an individual’s symptom between the start of treatment, to completion of treatment, by 30-50%. 2016; Larsen, Fleming, & Resick, 2019).

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Consistent with previous work highlighting the importance of adopting a strengths-based framework for minority mental health (e.g., 2012), the focus on this blog post is to emphasize the benefits and practice of assessing and integrating cultural strengths into the treatment process for youth and their families. Gaylord-Harden et al.,