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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Autonomy can positively benefit mental health and lack of independence can, for adults, increase symptoms of depression. For adults with mental illness, recovery can be improved by positive risk-taking and there is some argument for psychotherapy to lean more towards developing authenticity, competence and autonomy or self-belief.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP Blog post by Brittany Speed, Brandon Goldstein, and Dr. Marvin Goldfried discuss their recent publication in CP:SP addressing the role of assertiveness training in clinical psychology. During the 1970s and 1980s, assertiveness training occupied a prominent role within clinical behavior therapy. aggressive).

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Autonomy can positively benefit mental health and lack of independence can, for adults, increase symptoms of depression. For adults with mental illness, recovery can be improved by positive risk-taking and there is some argument for psychotherapy to lean more towards developing authenticity, competence and autonomy or self-belief.