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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. . There are several types of mental health providers and therapies.

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NASW Member Voices: ADHD and Mindfulness

Social Work Blog

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that develops in childhood and lasts into adulthood. Licensed mental health care professionals diagnose ADHD using the DSM-5. A common quote is that ADHD is “a disorder of not doing what you know.”

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Clinical Considerations When Clients Have Children

Society of Clinical Psychology

With regard to mental health, adults who address their own mental health needs are likely to be better able to effectively care for others. 2003, ), and that the majority of adults with a mental disorder are parents (Nicholson, Biebel, Katz-Leavy, & Williams, 2002). Ammerman et al.,

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

When distinguishing adaptive from maladaptive strategies, researchers have found stronger evidence that larger repertoires of adaptive strategies are related to better mental health and larger repertoires of maladaptive strategies are related to worse mental health (McMahon & Naragon-Gainey, 2019; Southward & Cheavens, 2020a).

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

In other words, how similar are the individuals diagnosed with a given disorder in clinical practice to those who are diagnosed in research settings? eating disorders showed strong agreement), the overall conclusion was that the correspondence between research and practice diagnoses was strikingly low for most disorders.

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