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What Is and Is Not a Psychological Treatment?

Society of Clinical Psychology

The Society of Clinical Psychology maintains a list of empirically supported treatments (ESTs), using a set of requirements colloquially referred to as the “Tolin criteria” (Tolin et al., Psychiatric medications, for example, might address psychological problems but are obviously not psychological treatments. Boness, C.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although externalizing problems are a common reason for psychiatric referrals (Connor et al., 2019), only a minority of youth with these difficulties receive interventions with strong research support (McCart & Sheidow, 2016). However, the moderating role of intervention duration approached but was no longer significant ( p =.057)

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Technology and the future of cognitive-behavioral interventions

Society of Clinical Psychology

However, these gold-standard CBT treatments remain extremely difficult to access, leaving wide gaps between those who need psychological care and those who actually receive it (Wang et al., 2017), most smartphone-based interventions that are publicly available lack efficacy data (e.g., Leigh & Flatt, 2015). Discussion Questions.

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Movement for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024: Feeling Safe In Your Body

MQ Mental Health

MQ Ambassador Dr Esther Beierl (pictured above) is a data scientist, trial statistician, and psychometrician in psychology and mental health research (currently University of Cambridge, previously University of Oxford), yoga teacher and personal trainer. Depression causes me to experience my body as a large and heavy sack, unable to move.

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

Over about the last 50 years, clinical research has proven without a doubt that psychotherapy significantly alleviates the symptoms of a wide range of mental illnesses, for example, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and addictions (Lutz et al., Capturing therapist-patient interactions. Reference Article.

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

Depressive disorders specifically account for a considerable amount of that disability, partly due to their high prevalence (Patel et al., Other prospective epidemiological studies show high rates of depression and other forms of internalizing distress when assessed over the life course (Lorenzo-Luaces, 2015). 2021; Cuijpers et al.,

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MQ expands its Science Council

MQ Mental Health

Professor Jehannine Austin from the University of British Columbia in Canada is a psychiatrist whose research work involved studying the impact of genetic counselling for people with psychiatric disorders and their families. Additionally, she is also the Director of the Mood Disorders Research program at Yale.