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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Before you continue reading this blog, take a moment and reflect for one moment: what do you, as a clinical psychologist, use as a criterion for recovery or therapy success? What would it mean for clinical psychology if we maintained an intentional focus on both treating mental illness and promoting mental wellbeing?

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Microaggressions towards LGBT individuals: what about clinical practice?

Society of Clinical Psychology

When working with minorities, this also means that we must be aware of the social system we navigate and how social norms, stereotypes, and biases may affect us and the person(s) we take care of in the clinical setting. WHAT DO MICROAGGRESSIONS LOOK LIKE IN THE CLINICAL SETTING? Journal of Clinical Psychology.

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Police opens investigation into abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC

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Meanwhile, the trust said it had suspended a number of staff pending investigation and commissioned an independent clinical review of the service, which experts interviewed for Panorama said had a “toxic culture” What did Panorama find?

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A Framework to Test Emotion Regulation in the Lab and the Clinic

Society of Clinical Psychology

Understanding how people regulate their emotions well is a key question of interest for both basic and applied psychology researchers. People who have access to a larger repertoire of emotion regulation strategies tend to report better psychological health, but this relation is small ( r =.12; Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.

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Treating Older Adults: What Do We Need to Know?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Among the American Psychological Association Center for Workforce Studies survey’s 4,109 doctoral-level respondents, only 1.2% as child and adolescent psychology specialists (Moye et al., Unlike coursework on child and developmental psychology, coursework on aging is often optional in graduate training. Clinical practice.

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Lynn F. Bufka, PhD, ABPP

Society of Clinical Psychology

Bufka, PhD, ABPP is Associate Chief, Practice, at the American Psychological Association. This includes embracing new approaches, models and conceptualizations of practice that are grounded in psychological science and are responsive to health equity and emerging challenges. Click the play button below to meet Dr. Bufka!

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The Promise of Data Informed Patient-Therapist Matching: Context Matters

Society of Clinical Psychology

To that end, with additional funding from PCORI, our team is about to embark on a large-scale match implementation project that will involve mental health clinics across the United States. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 90, 61-74. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 90, 61-74.