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What Is and Is Not a Psychological Treatment?

Society of Clinical Psychology

The Society of Clinical Psychology maintains a list of empirically supported treatments (ESTs), using a set of requirements colloquially referred to as the “Tolin criteria” (Tolin et al., Psychiatric medications, for example, might address psychological problems but are obviously not psychological treatments. in press).

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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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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Society of Clinical Psychology

Trauma exposure takes a toll on societies and individuals, leading to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for a sizable minority of individuals (Magruder et al., 2013), psychological problems (e.g., In Session 5, the therapist additionally reviews psychological symptoms and treatment progress. 2022; 2018).

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What are the latest developments in research into depression?

MQ Mental Health

Michael Browning , Professor of Computational Psychiatry at Oxford University talked about his research into the mechanisms and treatment for depression, and his work running a clinic for people with depression that is difficult to treat. Says Dunn. "One

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Loneliness and psychosis in clinical practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

In practice, clinical psychologists typically focus on diagnosing and treating specific mental health conditions. For people with psychotic disorders the situation is much worse. In fact, the annual rate of loneliness in people with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders appears to be around 2.3

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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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Improving the clinical utility of mental disorder classifications

Society of Clinical Psychology

Classifications of mental disorders are a necessary evil. Tracking the burden (both societal and personal) for individuals with mental disorders would become an impossible task. Second, professionals prefer flexible guidelines that allow for the application of clinical judgment to strict criteria that maximize reliability.

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