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Do Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Based Interventions Decrease Adolescent Externalizing Symptoms? A Meta-Analysis

Society of Clinical Psychology

2019), only a minority of youth with these difficulties receive interventions with strong research support (McCart & Sheidow, 2016). Despite DBT’s focus on changing thoughts and behaviors that precede and relate to interpersonal conflict, externalizing problems are rarely examined as a primary aim in DBT-based intervention studies.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

These summaries have been helpful in justifying the use of culturally adapted therapy (instead of nonadapted interventions), as well as offering clinicians practical information on how to adapt their interventions to people of color and cross-cultural clients. We found 18 articles that summarized cultural adaptations of DBT.

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NASW Member Voices: ADHD and Mindfulness

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Mindfulness is a practice that encompasses a variety of mindfulness-based interventions. One study found these interventions to be complementary to other active treatments for ADHD, like behavioral interventions and medication. Distress tolerance and emotion regulation are cornerstones of ADHD issues, which DBT skills target.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Thus, there are many lines of inquiry open to affective science and intervention researchers to test what constitutes high quality strategies and whether capitalizing on patients’ strengths by improving the quality of their strategies (Cheavens et al., Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Strunk et al., 2015; Gibbons et al.,

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Clinical Considerations When Clients Have Children

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP blog by Zalewski, Goodman, Cole, and McLaughlin corresponds with a new Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice article titled, “Clinical Considerations when Treating Adults who are Parents.” ” Flight attendants always instruct passengers to secure their own oxygen masks before assisting others.

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Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers

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Therapists and counselors have extensive training in mental health techniques, mental health issues and what interventions to employ based on goals that are determined collaboratively with the client and counselor or therapist. . Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Clinical Psychology PHD Student. Psychiatrists.

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Synthesizing Findings on Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors

Society of Clinical Psychology

Several interventions for SITB include strategies to improve cognitive flexibility (e.g., Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Chung (M.Sc) is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and faculty in the University of Utah’s department of psychiatry. DBT skills training manual (2nd ed.).