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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

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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Comparing psychotherapies for gay and bisexual men’s mental health

Society of Clinical Psychology

Based on this knowledge, our team at Yale created an identity-affirming psychotherapy to reduce the cognitive, affective, and behavioral mechanisms through which stigma erodes sexual minority men’s mental health. Participants randomly received one of three conditions: ESTEEM (10 sessions with a study therapist). Discussion Questions.

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

Buss, BS; Robinson De Jesús-Romero, BA, MsC; Allison Peipert, BS; Isabella Starvaggi, BS Psychotherapy research in the 21st century Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the disability attributable to health conditions (Whiteford et al., 2014), positive psychotherapy (Lopez-Gomez et al., 76, Issue 1.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

It is well-established that the approaches to diagnosis differ substantially between clinical practice and research settings. In other words, how similar are the individuals diagnosed with a given disorder in clinical practice to those who are diagnosed in research settings? Although, there were a few bright spots (e.g.,

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Can You Change Your Personality Traits?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Instead of pursuing our own intervention research, we decided, quite naively, to first look over the shoulder of our colleagues in clinical psychology. We even found a handful of studies that were “non-clinical” interventions, which played a significant role in understanding our results. What did we find? the Dodo Bird Verdict).

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

In a paper on whether psychotherapy is a form of prostitution, philosopher Rupert Read suggests that therapy is to genuine loving friendship (‘agape’) as prostitution is to erotic love (‘eros’). The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. I’ve been at Thompson for over six years as a therapist,” Kathy started. Almost no interviews, despite the pile of applications.