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‘Why we’re providing therapy for parents in pre-proceedings’

Community Care

We began to feel that the parents involved needed psychological treatment. At the same time, psychological assessments of parents in care proceedings almost always recommended psychological treatment. This exposed the significant disparity between the support provided to parents and what they required. It will also save money.

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Clinical Philosophy

I don't know about you, but the reason I often make notes after psychotherapy sessions is because I need aides-memoires. I've about 18 patients - in my private psychotherapy practice - at any one time; most of them attend just once a week. These notes are locked in a drawer in my consulting room (which, naturally, is also locked).

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Addressing Access in Ethnoracially Diverse Populations: Lessons from a University-Based Community Mental Health Center

Society of Clinical Psychology

Systemic racism in the economy, the healthcare system, and the field of clinical psychology perpetuates the disparities in access, retention, and effectiveness of mental health services. The FSU Psychology Clinic is a training clinic staffed by doctoral students and housed within the university’s clinical psychology PhD program.

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psychotherapy's moral bite: on deactivating the projection of will

Clinical Philosophy

It's from a recent blogpost by Jon Frederikson ; Frederikson is a particularly lucid and thoughtful exponent of ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy). Invitation to engage in the therapeutic task.] Being 'the adult in the room' is not, we might say, simply a matter of having a certain psychological maturity.

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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. Dr. 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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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Society of Clinical Psychology

2013), psychological problems (e.g., massed treatments for trauma-focused interventions) to increase successful engagement and retention in these trauma-focused treatments is critical, it is also important to consider novel strategies to address PTSD, in order to have a broader range of effective treatment options for trauma survivors.

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Mental wellbeing can, and should, be assessed in clinical samples

Society of Clinical Psychology

What would it mean for clinical psychology if we maintained an intentional focus on both treating mental illness and promoting mental wellbeing? While the integration of wellbeing into clinical psychology has come a long way, more work is needed before this approach will be widely adopted and even including into clinical training programs.

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