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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. Studies that report on the effectiveness of PTSD treatment are difficult to compare, because there are differences in terms of what is considered to be a response to treatment (i.e.

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News Items – December 15, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Psychology Today. Brayn Mares is government relations director for NASW-TX: Texas fights federal rule that would outlaw LGBTQ discrimination in state adoptions and foster care. Caitlin Cantor is a member of NASW-NJ: How to Handle the Uncertainty That Comes With Relationships. Everything except this very moment is uncertain.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

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.