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

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However, the psychotherapies that treat these concerns have been mainly developed by and for people who are White and live in Western countries. Because of this, many efforts have been made adapt psychotherapy to the cultures of people of color and cross-cultural clients. Challenges with mental health occur worldwide.

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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. . Along with psychotherapy, they can dispense medication if needed to help with the overall course of therapy.

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Clinical Considerations When Clients Have Children

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These estimates suggest that a significant number of adults seeking psychotherapy are parents. Indeed, there is substantial variability in whether and how interventions address adults’ roles as parents and, by extension, the well-being of their children (Stein et al., The Challenge. 2013; Goodman & Garber, 2017).

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

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Thus, there are many lines of inquiry open to affective science and intervention researchers to test what constitutes high quality strategies and whether capitalizing on patients’ strengths by improving the quality of their strategies (Cheavens et al., Unique and common mechanisms of change across cognitive and dynamic psychotherapies.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

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This effort to develop and test interventions that offer demonstrable improvement in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) has yielded a lengthy list of Empirically Supported Treatments that can inform an EBP ( [link] ). Yet in nearly all of these RCTs, the clients have been carefully diagnosed with a semi-structured interview.

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