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The Healthy Way to Set and Achieve Goals, According to Psychology

Psychological Health Care

Despite the potential for more Covid-variant disruptions and uncertainty, making resolutions based on successful goal setting principles could help deliver a much-needed psychological boost. From a psychological perspective, goals play a dominant role in shaping the way we see ourselves and others. Use a SMART-ER Framework for Success.

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Realizing the Promise: Strategic Dissemination and Implementation of CBT in Public and Private Health Care Systems

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although considered the gold standard psychological treatment for many mental and behavioral health conditions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) continues to be delivered at rates far below what research and expert recommendations suggest. Training included participation in a 2.5-day

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3 Focused Steps to Find Emotional Calm during a Storm of Emotions

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

BACKGROUND Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a modality that I often use with my clients. In traditional CBT, we work together to identify thought patterns, and thought content that cause harm or distress. This is part of my Positive Psychology Toolbox. If you enjoy this post, please subscribe to the Stress Talk Newsletter.

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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. Nevertheless, there is evidence that psychological treatments can run well in prisons.

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Diversity Spotlight: Dr. Nita Tewari

Society of Clinical Psychology

in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 1992. In 2000, she completed her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at Southern Illinois University. Tewari began her professional life at UCI, providing individual and group psychotherapy in the student counseling center and teaching Asian American Psychology.

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

Kaitlyn Poster, PhD conducted research on the assessment of treatment integrity and its associations with psychotherapy outcome, mechanisms of change, and dropout during her doctorate at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Trier, Germany. Journal of clinical psychology , 63 (6), 585-592.

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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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