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

Society of Clinical Psychology

2019), only a minority of youth with these difficulties receive interventions with strong research support (McCart & Sheidow, 2016). Despite DBT’s focus on changing thoughts and behaviors that precede and relate to interpersonal conflict, externalizing problems are rarely examined as a primary aim in DBT-based intervention studies.

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A roadmap to prevent people being gone too soon

MQ Mental Health

These insights open possibilities for common solutions that reduce premature mortality from both suicide and comorbidities and suggest opportunities to leverage ramifying effects via strategic interventions." I envision that this paper will inform equitable, accessible and effective prevention and intervention across the globe in the future.”

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Training therapists in evidence-based mental health interventions: What works and what holds promise for the future?

Society of Clinical Psychology

During that time, she had been having several panic attacks per day and met criteria for multiple anxiety disorders. However, despite all her years of psychosocial intervention, she had never received evidence-based interventions for her anxiety. Unfortunately, people like Jenna are not as uncommon as we would hope.

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Targeting Anxiety Sensitivity in Prevention Treatments: A Meta-Analysis

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although anxiety sensitivity was originally studied in relation to panic- and anxiety-related disorders, it subsequently has been conceptualized as a transdiagnostic measure of distress intolerance and a risk factor for important health behaviors (Otto et al., The interventions additionally needed to be brief: six sessions or less.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

To exemplify and rectify this issue, we aimed to recover a stand-alone transdiagnostic treatment that largely disappeared from the literature when research shifted away from focal, dimensional and clinically relevant problems to using treatment packages to treat DSM disorders. behavior rehearsal) and/or cognitive means (e.g., saying no).

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Let’s Talk About Sleep

Millennial Social Worker

Poor sleep leads to cognitive impairment and may cause or contribute to many depressive disorders. To avoid experiencing health problems and other psychosocial impacts, sleep should be prioritized. Sleep and Sleep Disordered. So much sleep do you need? tiredness and hallucinations. What should I do if I can’t sleep.

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Prioritizing Mental Health on College Campuses

Society of Clinical Psychology

First, approximately one-third of first-year students report 12-month (31.4%) and lifetime (35.3%) mental disorders, and most of these disorders have onsets during middle adolescence. Not surprisingly, MDD (21.2%) and GAD (18.6%) are the most common lifetime disorders. gender, parental education) and college-related (e.g.,