Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 7, 2023

How do we know if psychological treatments are effective? To answer the question “Is cognitive-behavioral therapy effective as a standalone treatment for substance use disorder?”, we must first answer the following: “How do we delineate effectiveness from non-effectiveness in evaluating psychological treatments?”

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 18, 2023

Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders are common and prevalent mental health problems. They include obsessive-compulsive disorder, body-dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania, hoarding disorder, and skin-picking disorder. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Target Article Pseftogianni, F.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 9, 2023

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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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 1, 2020

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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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 31, 2020

All prescribing professions, other than psychology, require undergraduate scientific coursework including biology, and organic and inorganic chemistry. This coursework is supplemented by a range of 1,500 (NPs, DNPs) to 9,000 (MD, DO) hours of supervised clinical training that involves assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 9, 2023

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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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Over about the last 50 years, clinical research has proven without a doubt that psychotherapy significantly alleviates the symptoms of a wide range of mental illnesses, for example, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and addictions (Lutz et al., 2009; Cahill et al., 2003; Carpender et al.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JUNE 20, 2016

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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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Monitoring patients’ progress and providing therapists with feedback is a powerful tool that can make a significant difference in the effectiveness of psychological treatments. Based on your clinical experience, you have certain beliefs about how the therapy is progressing. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 17, 2023

Emotion regulation seems to lie at the heart of mental health and psych opathology – e.g., maladaptive emotion regulation strategies like rumination, avoidance, and suppression appear to be commonly used by patients across several mental disorders. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Target Article Kraft, L., Bettis, A.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 12, 2019

For the past 60 years, psychological research as a whole has been dominated by the deficit model of psychopathology that centers on disorder, damage, and mental illness. This phenomenon has been labeled the immigrant paradox.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 31, 2020

When a patient is undergoing treatment for a substance use disorder (SUD), one of the greatest risks for relapse is encountering the drug itself, or, something that reminds the patient of using the drug (i.e., 2014), long-term clinical outcomes remain modest (Conklin & Tiffany, 2002). a “trigger” for use). Rohsenhow et al.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 23, 2020

When we think of eating disorders, we often picture a very thin, white woman. Consistently, this is how eating disorders are often portrayed in the media. However, discrimination has only recently begun being studied as a risk factor for eating disorders, possibly due to previous beliefs about who gets eating disorders (i.e.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 14, 2017

Is “Abnormal Psychology” Really all that Abnormal – a blog post by Jonathan D. Schaefer, a doctoral student of Clinical Psychology at Duke University. abnormal psychology”), and in the stigmatization of individuals who suffer from mental illness. 2011), Oregon (Farmer et al.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 13, 2017

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.” Clinical considerations when treating adults who are parents. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 13, 2020

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes a great deal of mental and physical distress, and can significantly reduce a person’s quality of life. In our study, we systematically reviewed definitions of response and non-response in all clinical trials testing PTSD treatments over the past few decades. Treatment resistance.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 10, 2020

Several effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exist, yet nearly half of patients continue to have significant symptomatology after receiving them (e.g., Augmentation can include pharmacological treatments, psychological treatments, or novel or emerging treatments such as exercise, acupuncture, or art therapy.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Although anxiety sensitivity was originally studied in relation to panic- and anxiety-related disorders, it subsequently has been conceptualized as a transdiagnostic measure of distress intolerance and a risk factor for important health behaviors (Otto et al., Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Discussion Questions.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2023

Sheehan Fisher, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, where he was recently appointed Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the Graduate School. Journal of Affective Disorders. 28 , 111-120. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2016.05.063

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 19, 2023

We hope that future DBT research will continue to investigate externalizing symptom outcomes among adolescents with thoughtful inclusion of potential moderators, as well as evaluate adolescents who meet criteria for disruptive behavior disorders given DBT’s potential effectiveness for youth who might not currently receive DBT. Jakubovic, M.A.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 14, 2023

There is also some evidence that higher cognitive flexibility may have an indirect protective effect on SITB via buffering effects of stress and psychological pain. boys with adjustment disorders). Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Chung (M.Sc) is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Kaufman (Ph.D.)

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While the majority of adults will remain cognitively intact into very advanced age, the prevalence of neurocognitive disorders does increase with age, and psychologists should remain alert to signs of cognitive decline, such as forgetting appointments or forgetting conversations, and make appropriate referrals for cognitive assessment when needed.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 2, 2017

correspondents with a new article in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology titled, “Outcomes of Psychological Therapies for Prisoners with Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. This SCP blog by Karen Slade, Psy.D. 2007; Butler et al., 2007; Butler et al.,

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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 1992. In 2000, she completed her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at Southern Illinois University. Based on her teaching curriculum, Dr. Tewari obtained a book contract and published Asian American Psychology: Current Perspectives in 2009.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

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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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 7, 2020

The participants were 157 Black college students attending a predominantly White institution who completed the racial discrimination, internalized racism, and psychological distress measures. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority in Psychology. . His research focuses on Conduct Disorder (CD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorders (ODD).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 7, 2020

“Jenna” was an adolescent who presented for treatment at a specialty clinic after having been in therapy for several years. During that time, she had been having several panic attacks per day and met criteria for multiple anxiety disorders. Clinical Psychology : Science and Practice. About the Authors. Hannah Frank, M.A.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Katie Eklund discusses the use of universal screening scores to predict distal academic and behavioral outcomes among school-aged youth. academic skill curriculum-based measurement scores) to increase the likelihood of universal screener adoption. Lane, Carter, Pierson, & Glaeser, 2006).

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Social Workers Speak

JUNE 1, 2023

Kara Carter and Mercedes Bern-Klug are members of NASW-IA: A new mindset on mental health University of Iowa When Kara Carter started out as a practitioner of social work in southern Colorado , she quickly found that her expertise in mental health was badly needed—not just by the hospice agency that hired her, but by the community she lived in.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 7, 2021

Often times the field of clinical psychology assumes a “deficit-based” approach to minority mental health. What does it look like in clinical practice? So, what are the take-home points for weaving cultural strengths in clinical practice? degree in Psychology at Middlebury College and her Master of Science (M.S.)

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Clinical Philosophy

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In this pathbreaking work, philosopher and clinical psychologist Richard G. Disordered Thought 9. In On Madness, Richard Gipps takes us on a richly textured philosophical and psychological journey showing, in a Wittgensteinian spirit, how delusion, as other psychopathological concepts, have their meaning only 'in the stream of life'.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 2, 2019

Psychology can play an essential role in the clinical response to this crisis. In 2017, a Cross-Divisional Taskforce was formed of members of APA Divisions 12, 28 and 50 to develop a guide on clinical responses to the opioid crisis.

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Social Workers Speak

MAY 11, 2023

Patricia Saleeby is a member of NASW-IL: A Bradley University professor recently spoke at the United Nations. Representative Lydia Crafts’ own connection to the issue , along with her work as a licensed clinical social worker, have driven her to draft what she calls a public health response to substance use disorder.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We designed a 12-week positive psychological intervention—ENHANCE—focused explicitly on increasing happiness rather than treating mental illness. In a paper published in the journal Psychological Science , we found that our positive psychological intervention had beneficial effects on self-reported physical health (Kushlev et al.,

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Professor Rory O’Connor and MQ’s Craig Perryman spoke to MQ researcher and academic clinical fellow at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, Dr Maxime Taquet. That doesn't really matter in some ways since treatment is very much the same both psychologically and medically.

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Social Workers Speak

AUGUST 4, 2023

Maria Baratta is a member of NASW-NYS: Vacation Eating 101 Psychology Today Vacation is usually a time away from the everyday grind, and with that comes eating in ways not consistent with how you eat at home. FitzPatrick, a licensed and certified clinical social worker who has 30+ years in caregiving from Kent Island, Maryland.

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