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What Is and Is Not a Psychological Treatment?

Society of Clinical Psychology

The Society of Clinical Psychology maintains a list of empirically supported treatments (ESTs), using a set of requirements colloquially referred to as the “Tolin criteria” (Tolin et al., Psychiatric medications, for example, might address psychological problems but are obviously not psychological treatments. Boness, C.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety: An Overview and Future Directions

Society of Clinical Psychology

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), deemed a “well-established” intervention for the treatment of child and adolescent anxiety (Hollon & Beck, 2013), typically addresses anxiety using a two-pronged approach. comorbid disorders, family dysfunction), moving the field toward the ultimate goal of person-centered intervention.

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Movement for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024: Feeling Safe In Your Body

MQ Mental Health

MQ Ambassador Dr Esther Beierl (pictured above) is a data scientist, trial statistician, and psychometrician in psychology and mental health research (currently University of Cambridge, previously University of Oxford), yoga teacher and personal trainer. Anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder cause my stress levels to be constantly high.

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

Over about the last 50 years, clinical research has proven without a doubt that psychotherapy significantly alleviates the symptoms of a wide range of mental illnesses, for example, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and addictions (Lutz et al., Capturing therapist-patient interactions. Reference Article.

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Wearable devices as adjuncts in treating anxiety: Weighing up the benefits and risks

Society of Clinical Psychology

Most of these monitor specific physiological signals thought to interact with psychological phenomena (such as breathing or skin conductance). Though we did not identify any evaluation frameworks developed specifically for wearable devices, the American Psychiatric Association app evaluation model (Torous et al.,

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MQ expands its Science Council

MQ Mental Health

Professor Jehannine Austin from the University of British Columbia in Canada is a psychiatrist whose research work involved studying the impact of genetic counselling for people with psychiatric disorders and their families. Additionally, she is also the Director of the Mood Disorders Research program at Yale.

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Can prisoners with mental health problems benefit from psychological therapy? Yes, but health and justice need to be closer friends.

Society of Clinical Psychology

correspondents with a new article in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology titled, “Outcomes of Psychological Therapies for Prisoners with Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. This SCP blog by Karen Slade, Psy.D. 2007; Butler et al.,