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10 Years of MQ’s American Fellows

MQ Mental Health

Ahmari investigated what happens in the brain to cause OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) specifically, whether complications in the brain’s circuits may cause symptoms. With this fascinating technique, Susanne progressed the understanding of OCD forwards and contribute to treatments. The MQ fellowship was transformational.

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Compassion-Focused Therapy Strongly Improves Mental Health Outcomes: A Series of Meta-Analyses

Society of Clinical Psychology

Remarkably, CFT has found application in treating various mental health difficulties, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But it doesn’t stop there; CFT has also ventured beyond clinical settings to promote mental well-being in the general public. Advance online publication.

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Members in the News – August 4, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Marshall, LCSW, is director of clinical services and delegate representative for the National Association of Social Workers, Washington, D.C. FitzPatrick, a licensed and certified clinical social worker who has 30+ years in caregiving from Kent Island, Maryland. and Connecticut based social worker.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety: An Overview and Future Directions

Society of Clinical Psychology

2015), although exposure use in community clinics remains low (Whiteside, Deacon, Benito, & Stewart, 2016). Both models have somewhat contradictory implications for clinical practice (e.g., comorbid disorders, family dysfunction), moving the field toward the ultimate goal of person-centered intervention. 2005; Peris et al.,

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Contemporary Issues in Understanding Immigrant Mental Health Needs and Challenges

Society of Clinical Psychology

My colleague Dr. Angela Nickerson (Director of the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program and Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales) has recently spearheaded an important briefing paper examining the mental health considerations for forcibly displaced individuals for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).

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From Living with OCD to Working with it

Beautiful Voyager

The author Natalia Aniela Aíza My journey as an OCD therapist (and what I have yet to learn). I distinctly remember that queasy feeling of being both powerful and powerless – what I now understand to be the dichotomy of having a control disorder that is out of control. This means that my core self and my OCD are in line.

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Towards rigorous and flexible research designs for personalized psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

As clinical psychotherapists, we know about the dilemma that traditional research methods pose for everyday clinical practice. We then invited methodological and clinical experts to participate in a subsequent Delphi study to condensate their most essential advancements and challenges for psychotherapy research and practice.