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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

For adults with mental illness, recovery can be improved by positive risk-taking and there is some argument for psychotherapy to lean more towards developing authenticity, competence and autonomy or self-belief. Clinical terminology isn’t easy for adults to use correctly, let alone younger age groups.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

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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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

For adults with mental illness, recovery can be improved by positive risk-taking and there is some argument for psychotherapy to lean more towards developing authenticity, competence and autonomy or self-belief. Clinical terminology isn’t easy for adults to use correctly, let alone younger age groups.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

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. The post What we know now about bridging the gap between research and practice first appeared on Society of Clinical Psychology.

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Why Reporting Harms Matters

Society of Clinical Psychology

Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly important in healthcare. This situation could result in psychopharmacology receiving more attention compared to psychosocial care, due simply to the availability of more comprehensive information about treatment, including harms, for use in decision making.

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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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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

points on the CAPS-5) was not statistically or clinically significant. A brief exposure based treatment for PTSD versus Cognitive Processing Therapy: A randomized non-inferiority clinical trial. Utilization of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies in Veterans Affairs Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Outpatient Clinics. Author Bios.

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