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The Promise of Data Informed Patient-Therapist Matching: Context Matters

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It may come as no surprise to patients and therapists to hear that the therapist matters when it comes to the quality of psychotherapy. Findings from psychotherapy outcome research have “caught up” to anecdote and patient and therapist intuition. What Do We Think We Know about Therapist Differences?

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Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers

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← How to Choose a Therapist: Tips and Fits. In fact, choosing a therapist and the type of therapy you specifically need may seem like a chore. Types of Therapists and Counselors. Psychiatrists are medical doctors who have specialized in psychiatry. There are several types of mental health providers and therapies.

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Compassion-Focused Therapy Strongly Improves Mental Health Outcomes: A Series of Meta-Analyses

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Remarkably, CFT has found application in treating various mental health difficulties, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. 49) on depressive symptoms. What are some of the challenges for therapists in incorporating compassion in their interventions?

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Identifying Mechanisms of Change in Clinical Supervision

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When attending national academic conferences in psychology, it is hard not to hear mention of mechanisms of change in psychotherapy. Alan Kazdin’s 2007 article, Mediators and Mechanisms of Change in Psychotherapy Research, still has lasting effects on the way psychologists think about therapy today. 2013; Cha et al., Dr. Mona A.

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Additionally, NSSI is more common in people who suffer from anxiety , depression, or have difficulty regulating their emotions. A meta-analytic study from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry analyzed the prevalence and characteristics of self-harm in adolescents across 41 countries.

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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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depression; Jacobson et al., This Positive Memory-PTSD Model spurred further research in the area of PTSD and positive memories, which was important because the majority of prior positive memory intervention work has been in the area of depression. 2001) as well as stakeholder input from therapists (Contractor, Caldas, et al.,

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

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Most of the treatment research on emotion regulation quality has focused on cognitive therapy for depression where higher quality strategies generally predict decreases in depressive symptoms (e.g., 2018) reported more intense disgust, depressive symptoms, and borderline personality disorder features. Strunk et al., Strunk, D.

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