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

Society of Clinical Psychology

All over the world, people held in our jails and prisons experience far greater levels of mental illness than the general population including PTSD, major depression, psychotic illness and personality disorder (Fazel & Seewald, 2012, Goff et al., Does PTSD occur in sentenced prison populations? This SCP blog by Karen Slade, Psy.D.

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The Promise of Transdiagnostic Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

Society of Clinical Psychology

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) treatment protocols for specific disorders such as panic disorder are currently considered the gold standard treatments for many emotional disorders and have been demonstrated to generally promote sustained improvement or recovery in the majority of individuals who complete a full course of treatment.

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Outcomes in Anxiety: We’re Halfway There

Society of Clinical Psychology

Levy, Springer, and Tolin discuss a recent meta-analytic review of remission in CBT for anxiety disorders published in Clinical Psychology Review. . The efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders is well established, at least in terms of pre- to post-treatment reductions in anxiety severity.

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