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What to expect when seeing a clinical psychologist

Lawson Psychology

What to expect when seeing a clinical psychologist Seeing a psychologist for the first time can be a daunting experience for some people. Arriving at the clinic When you arrive at the clinic, you will be welcomed by one of our client relationship team members. It’s completely normal to feel a little nervous and apprehensive.

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Behavioral interventions in community settings for Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Meta-analysis

Society of Clinical Psychology

Early behavioral interventions (BI) such as applied behavior analysis (ABA) and early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) are the main established therapeutic interventions for autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The current study examined the effect of early BI when delivered in routine clinical care. age below 5 years)?

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Investigating the transdiagnostic nature of rumination across depressive, anxiety and eating disorders: A meta-analysis.

Society of Clinical Psychology

Investigating transdiagnostic factors across mental disorders is of high importance as transdiagnostic factors can be targeted for both diagnosis and treatment in a diagnostically mixed sample. As depression, anxiety and eating disorders are highly comorbid illnesses that share a multitude of risk factors (McGrath et al., Rickerby, N.,

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What to expect when seeing a clinical psychologist with your child

Lawson Psychology

What to expect when seeing a clinical psychologist with your child Attending an appointment with a clinical psychologist can be a time of mixed feelings. This appointment (50 minutes) will allow your family and your clinical psychologist time to get to know each other and provide a thorough assessment.

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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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Coping through Christmas with an eating disorder

Lawson Psychology

Coping through Christmas with an eating disorder Christmas can be a very difficult and challenging time for people with eating disorders or difficult relationships with food. Move on notice: Parents, loved ones of people with eating disorders, please learn to move conversations on if there are too many intrusive inquiries.

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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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