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

Society of Clinical Psychology

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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Teen Cutting

Beautiful Voyager

You can look into the following: Cognitive Behavior Therapy Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy or talk therapy that uses strategies to change a patient’s unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a psychotherapy that is based on CBT.

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Clinical Considerations When Clients Have Children

Society of Clinical Psychology

These estimates suggest that a significant number of adults seeking psychotherapy are parents. Specifically, we offer ideas for how to screen parenting quality and children’s well-being within the context of adult psychotherapy as a starting point to determine if a client’s children may be in need of referrals for additional services.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Given the important role of emotion regulation in treatment and in our everyday lives, we are excited to set the stage for researchers to enhance our understanding of these processes and use that understanding to inform and optimize our psychotherapy treatments. Matt Southward, PhD is a postdoc at the University of Kentucky.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

This blog piece by Dr. Douglas Samuel from Purdue University discusses a recently published article in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. . For example, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT; Linehan, Tutek, Heard, & Armstrong, 1994) has proven to be an effective treatment for those diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

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