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

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We evaluated evidence as to whether interventions based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a well-studied intervention designed to reduce destructive behavior by enhancing ability to regulate emotions, may reduce externalizing symptoms among adolescents. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Target Article Jakubovic, R.

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Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers

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Psychologists have attained either a doctorate in philosophy or a doctorate in psychology. Psychiatrists are medical doctors who have specialized in psychiatry. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) has gained increasing popularity since its development in the early ’90s. .

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

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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. Chung (M.Sc) is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. At the broadest level, Dr. Annual Review of Psychology , 64 , 135–168.

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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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