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Do Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Based Interventions Decrease Adolescent Externalizing Symptoms? A Meta-Analysis

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2019), only a minority of youth with these difficulties receive interventions with strong research support (McCart & Sheidow, 2016). Despite DBT’s focus on changing thoughts and behaviors that precede and relate to interpersonal conflict, externalizing problems are rarely examined as a primary aim in DBT-based intervention studies.

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NASW Member Voices: ADHD and Mindfulness

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A study from Psychiatry International found possible benefits of mindfulness to help with self-compassion, quality of life, well being, depression, and anxiety. Mindfulness is a practice that encompasses a variety of mindfulness-based interventions. There is no “one size fits all” approach to treating ADHD, according to Zylowska.

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Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers

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Therapists and counselors have extensive training in mental health techniques, mental health issues and what interventions to employ based on goals that are determined collaboratively with the client and counselor or therapist. . Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). There are several types of mental health providers and therapies.

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Synthesizing Findings on Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors

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Several interventions for SITB include strategies to improve cognitive flexibility (e.g., Although studies varied to some extent in terms of their findings, cognitive flexibility did not appear to be consistently or strongly associated with a history of SITB when researchers accounted for other mental health problems like depression.

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Clinical Considerations When Clients Have Children

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Generally, their roles as parents are not the target of evidenced-based interventions for adults, despite a strong body of evidence that psychopathology interferes with the quality of parenting that children require for healthy development across the lifespan. Ammerman et al., 2013; Goodman & Garber, 2017).

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A Framework to Test Emotion Regulation in the Lab and the Clinic

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Most of the treatment research on emotion regulation quality has focused on cognitive therapy for depression where higher quality strategies generally predict decreases in depressive symptoms (e.g., 2018) reported more intense disgust, depressive symptoms, and borderline personality disorder features. Strunk et al.,

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