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The Stages of Change Model and How To Implement It

Relias

DiClemente, this model has become a cornerstone in health psychology and is widely used in healthcare and wellness programs. To learn how to apply this model to your work, we’ll review the five stages of change, what interventions look like at each stage, and some techniques to incorporate this model into your practice.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

What would it mean for clinical psychology if we maintained an intentional focus on both treating mental illness and promoting mental wellbeing? While the integration of wellbeing into clinical psychology has come a long way, more work is needed before this approach will be widely adopted and even including into clinical training programs.

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The Next Generation of Parenting Interventions: The role of Mindfulness and Compassion

Society of Clinical Psychology

The rationale for the inclusion of mindfulness to enhance the impact of traditional behavioral family interventions is that it could increase psychological flexibility and reduce the influence of negative thoughts and feelings a parent may have about a child’s behavior (Brown, Whittingham, Boyd, McKinlay, & Sofronoff, 2014).

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Easing Mental Health Technologies into Practice: Considerations for a Smooth Transition

Society of Clinical Psychology

First, there is increasing evidence for the success of technology-enhanced interventions (Gros et al., This five-stage top down model aims to: Optimize technology for adoption. Use iterative design and development processes to account for different adoption setting needs. Improve Regulations and Guidelines.

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How can we protect peoples mental health during the cost-of-living-crisis?

MQ Mental Health

This review also discusses the impact of economic crises on mental health, underlying factors, and promising intervention targets at individual, community, and societal levels. Adopt evidence-based measures to address the practical, physical and psychological barriers for delivering and accessing healthcare.

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How To Take a Trauma-Informed Approach to Birth Trauma

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Birth trauma is an adverse psychological reaction following pregnancy or childbirth similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A trauma-informed approach to birth trauma To help your clients cope with and overcome the effects of birth trauma, it’s important that your organization adopt a trauma-informed approach to care.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

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., degree in Psychology at Middlebury College and her Master of Science (M.S.) Anderson et al.,