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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., in an early session of psychotherapy. Bennemann, B.,

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The Art of Destressing: How Creativity Creates Less Stress

MQ Mental Health

Moreover, writing or drawing helps me see something new about my own thought process or feelings, it helps unblock something I’m struggling to communicate to myself let alone to others. Many people are aware of common therapies used to treat mental health conditions like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, psychotherapy and group therapy.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

It may come as no surprise to patients and therapists to hear that the therapist matters when it comes to the quality of psychotherapy. Findings from psychotherapy outcome research have “caught up” to anecdote and patient and therapist intuition. Psychotherapy, 52 , 308–314. What Do We Think We Know about Therapist Differences?

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Festive opening of the university outpatient clinic

Clinical Psychology of Social Interaction

On 09.09.2022, the new outpatient clinic for psychotherapy and psychodiagnostics, headed by Prof. The specialized outpatient clinic for social interactions at HU Berlin offers diagnostics, counselling and therapy for adults who have problems in social interaction and communication. From now on it is located at Justus-von-Liebig-Str.

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How Relationship Counselling Can Benefit You

Psychological Health Care

How well you understand and can communicate with your partner, as well as your ability to negotiate difficult times can determine whether you maintain a happy relationship, struggle, or separate. Many couples opt for counselling to better understand each other, improve communication skills and to make informed decisions.

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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. Expressing Differently Sometimes, adults might expect children to express themselves verbally, as adults tend to communicate.

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Teen Cutting

Beautiful Voyager

You can look into the following: Cognitive Behavior Therapy Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy or talk therapy that uses strategies to change a patient’s unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a psychotherapy that is based on CBT.