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‘Why we’re providing therapy for parents in pre-proceedings’

Community Care

We applied two guiding rules, drawing on our learning from the research: To increase the parent’s sense of control and improve the first variable, willingness to access treatment, we would provide an overview of the different therapeutic approaches and invite the parent to choose one.

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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., in an early session of psychotherapy. Bennemann, B.,

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Diversity Spotlight: Beverly Greene, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

Her work focuses on psychotherapy with people who belong to marginalized and subordinate positions in the social hierarchy, and the psychological effects of social inequities such as heterosexism, sexism, and racism, as well as LGBTQIA+ psychology from an Intersectional identity and Black feminist lens. John’s University. John’s University.

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What can we learn from cultural adaptations of dialectical behavior therapy?

Society of Clinical Psychology

However, the psychotherapies that treat these concerns have been mainly developed by and for people who are White and live in Western countries. Because of this, many efforts have been made adapt psychotherapy to the cultures of people of color and cross-cultural clients. Challenges with mental health occur worldwide.

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Clinical Philosophy

I don't know about you, but the reason I often make notes after psychotherapy sessions is because I need aides-memoires. I've about 18 patients - in my private psychotherapy practice - at any one time; most of them attend just once a week. and so I make them. Given the actual requirements I have of my notes, that seems fair enough.

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Compassion-Focused Therapy Strongly Improves Mental Health Outcomes: A Series of Meta-Analyses

Society of Clinical Psychology

Interestingly, CFT appeared to be equally effective in reducing overall mental health symptoms in both clinical and non-clinical samples, whether delivered alone or in combination with other interventions, in group or individual formats. Furthermore, we believe that measures should be selected carefully to reduce heterogeneity of findings.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

One caveat of our analysis was that there were differences in the loading of items on each of the three aspects of wellbeing between clinical and non-clinical groups, therefore caution is required when comparing scores between groups. Do you mainly focus on recovery from symptoms?

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