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Do Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Based Interventions Decrease Adolescent Externalizing Symptoms? A Meta-Analysis

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2019), only a minority of youth with these difficulties receive interventions with strong research support (McCart & Sheidow, 2016). Despite DBT’s focus on changing thoughts and behaviors that precede and relate to interpersonal conflict, externalizing problems are rarely examined as a primary aim in DBT-based intervention studies.

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Training therapists in evidence-based mental health interventions: What works and what holds promise for the future?

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“Jenna” was an adolescent who presented for treatment at a specialty clinic after having been in therapy for several years. By the time she presented to the specialty clinic, she had seen a number of therapists and had little hope for improvement, stating that “nothing worked before.” These early reviews concluded that self-study (e.g.,

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Targeting Anxiety Sensitivity in Prevention Treatments: A Meta-Analysis

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Promoting mechanisms-focused science to transform how clinical scientists address the substantial effect of behaviors on a wide range of health and disease outcomes is a central goal for the NIH Science of Behavior Change Common Fund (Nielsen et al., The interventions additionally needed to be brief: six sessions or less.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

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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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Diversity Spotlight: Sannisha K. Dale, PhD

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Dale , a dual licensed clinical psychologist (MA/FL) and Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. Dr. Dale earned her Master’s degree in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2005, and completed her Ph.D. Sannisha K.

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What we know now about bridging the gap between research and practice

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About two decades ago, psychologists who develop and study psychotherapy interventions began to recognize that publications on the efficacy of new psychotherapies were not sufficient to change practice. Are they able to make it to session weekly, and willing or able to engage in the interventions that comprise the EBPT?

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

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This blog piece by Dr. Douglas Samuel from Purdue University discusses a recently published article in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. . It is well-established that the approaches to diagnosis differ substantially between clinical practice and research settings. semi-structured interview or self-report questionnaire) was only.23

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