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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., To address this thorny issue, the Society of Clinical Psychology assembled a task force charged with defining what psychological treatments are and are not.

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Festive opening of the university outpatient clinic

Clinical Psychology of Social Interaction

On 09.09.2022, the new outpatient clinic for psychotherapy and psychodiagnostics, headed by Prof. Prior to the tour of the new outpatient clinic premises, a scientific symposium was held at the Erwin Schrödinger Zentrum. There are four specialized clinics: Specialized Outpatient Clinic for Social Interactions.

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Clinician and client political values in culturally-competent psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

The ways in which client and therapist political values affect the therapeutic process has been a neglected factor in clinical practice, with many clinicians committing “culturally-competent malpractice” in this area (Redding, 2020). Sociopolitical values: The neglected factor in culturally-competent psychotherapy.

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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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Identifying Mechanisms of Change in Clinical Supervision

Society of Clinical Psychology

This is a Section 10 Student Blog Post on identifying mechanisms of change in clinical supervision written by Lucas Zullo , a fourth year doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and his clinical supervisor, Dr. Mona Robbins. 2013; Cha et al.,

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Harnessing Identity: The Key to Facilitating Effective Therapy Groups?

Society of Clinical Psychology

The idea of exerting influence in a clinical setting may sound unusual (and perhaps even unethical?). More specifically, identity leadership theory directs leaders wishing to maximise their effectiveness to engage in four key processes: create a strong sense of shared identity among group members (i.e., Stevens et al., Robertson et al.,

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Diversity Spotlight: Beverly Greene, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

Beverly Greene , board-certified (ABPP) in Clinical Psychology and tenured Professor of psychology at St. in Clinical Psychology from the Derner Institute of Adelphi University in 1977 and 1983, respectively. During my time in graduate school, I had initially prioritized my training in psychotherapy. John’s University.