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Before Sending Your Kid to Counseling….

Gary Direnfeld

Counseling is a serious psychosocial intervention. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. One wouldn’t call a surgeon expecting surgery without an investigation and tests first. So too with counseling.

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A roadmap to prevent people being gone too soon

MQ Mental Health

The paper, written by 40 global experts, followed an extensive road mapping process of evidence reviews and consultation with mental health researchers, clinicians, policy experts and people with lived and living experience of mental illnesses and suicide.

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Training therapists in evidence-based mental health interventions: What works and what holds promise for the future?

Society of Clinical Psychology

However, despite all her years of psychosocial intervention, she had never received evidence-based interventions for her anxiety. Although evidence-based interventions exist for a wide variety of mental health disorders, they are rarely used in routine clinical practice.

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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. Are they able to make it to session weekly, and willing or able to engage in the interventions that comprise the EBPT?

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

By investigating the underlying mechanism of action in our earlier work, we were able to create an efficient and efficacious intervention that we hope will improve treatment access and the subsequent health, well-being and quality of life of people exposed to trauma and in need of treatment services. 2012; Nacasch et al., Reference Article.

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Medication, Behavioral Therapy, or Both? Examining Understudied Domains for Children with ADHD

Society of Clinical Psychology

To evaluate whether behavioral intervention could improve the sports performance of children with ADHD, we conducted a 2 (medication, placebo) x 2 (sports training, recreational play) between-groups study over three weeks in the STP. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , 85 (2), 111–122. Pelham, Jr. Dr. William E. Pelham, Jr.

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Members in the News – August 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

.” For practical guidance around what to disclose at work, Lowenthal, who is a senior clinical social worker for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care , tells Yahoo she encourages people to “know your rights,” and consult with guides such as those provided by Triage Cancer.

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