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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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What can we learn from cultural adaptations of dialectical behavior therapy?

Society of Clinical Psychology

These summaries have been helpful in justifying the use of culturally adapted therapy (instead of nonadapted interventions), as well as offering clinicians practical information on how to adapt their interventions to people of color and cross-cultural clients. We found 18 articles that summarized cultural adaptations of DBT.

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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. . Psychologists have attained either a doctorate in philosophy or a doctorate in psychology. Psychologists .

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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., There is also some evidence that higher cognitive flexibility may have an indirect protective effect on SITB via buffering effects of stress and psychological pain. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Bryan, 2019; Kiosses et al.,

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Clinical Considerations When Clients Have Children

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This SCP blog by Zalewski, Goodman, Cole, and McLaughlin corresponds with a new Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice article titled, “Clinical Considerations when Treating Adults who are Parents.” Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Ammerman et al., 2013; Goodman & Garber, 2017). Author Bios.

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

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Understanding how people regulate their emotions well is a key question of interest for both basic and applied psychology researchers. People who have access to a larger repertoire of emotion regulation strategies tend to report better psychological health, but this relation is small ( r =.12; Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.

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Diversity Spotlight: Sannisha K. Dale, PhD

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Dale , a dual licensed clinical psychologist (MA/FL) and Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. Dr. Dale earned her Master’s degree in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2005, and completed her Ph.D.