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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

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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., in an early session of psychotherapy.

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What Is and Is Not a Psychological Treatment?

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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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Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers

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Therapists and counselors have extensive training in mental health techniques, mental health issues and what interventions to employ based on goals that are determined collaboratively with the client and counselor or therapist. . There are several types of mental health providers and therapies.

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

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The benefits of cultivating compassion have been described for thousands of years and, over the last two decades, an increasing number of therapeutic approaches have been promoting its use in addressing mental health difficulties. This approach proves particularly helpful in addressing issues like self-criticism and shame.

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Mental wellbeing can, and should, be assessed in clinical samples

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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? However, the concepts of recovery and mental health have been changing over time (Bohlmeijer & Westerhof, 2021).

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Sexism Makes it Harder for Girls to Benefit from Therapy

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It’s possible that girls living in places with higher sexism have worse mental health because living in an oppressive environment makes it harder to get better in mental health treatment. Identifying for whom and under what conditions mental health treatments work is critical. Discussion questions.

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What can we learn from cultural adaptations of dialectical behavior therapy?

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Challenges with mental health occur worldwide. However, the psychotherapies that treat these concerns have been mainly developed by and for people who are White and live in Western countries. Because of this, many efforts have been made adapt psychotherapy to the cultures of people of color and cross-cultural clients.

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