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Understanding Work Stress Leave in Australia

Psychological Health Care

Add in widespread use of digital communication technologies reducing your ability to disconnect from work, and your work stress begins to seep into your personal life as well. Read the recently released report from Safe Work Australia on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. Contact us today to book an appointment.

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Microaggressions towards LGBT individuals: what about clinical practice?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Microaggressions have been described as “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative insults to the target person or group” (Torino et al., centering all consultation on marginalized identities alone (e.g.,

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Why Is It So Hard To Ask For Help When Facing Psychological Distress?

Beautiful Voyager

One interesting question raised by the host JF Lacasse was: why is it so hard, especially for men, to talk about their psychological and emotional challenges, and ask for help? Why would men hide their psychological challenges more than women? They are a barrier to the accurate identification and treatment of psychological conditions”.

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The Promise of Data Informed Patient-Therapist Matching: Context Matters

Society of Clinical Psychology

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 90, 61-74. Would you ever consider posting or communicating your own outcome track records (based on validated routine outcome measurement tools) to patients and/or referral sources? Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 90, 61-74. Boswell, J.F., Kraus, D.R.,

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Diversity Spotlight: Dr. Nita Tewari

Society of Clinical Psychology

in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 1992. In 2000, she completed her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at Southern Illinois University. Tewari began her professional life at UCI, providing individual and group psychotherapy in the student counseling center and teaching Asian American Psychology.

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Authentic Beauty – Reflections for Women Social Workers

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

This immense pressure to conform to conventional beauty standards can add to the psychological toll social workers experience leading to anxiety, depression, and increased stress. These are subtle microaggressions that undermines psychological safety in the workplace. Bailey Consultants Please share in the comments.

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

how they implemented interventions with patients and how they communicated, showed empathy etc.) Björn Bennemann, MSc is a fourth year PhD Student at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Trier, Germany. Journal of clinical psychology , 63 (6), 585-592. in an early session of psychotherapy.