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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

Professor Rory O’Connor, Director, Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab, Glasgow University “The Gone Too Soon road mapping process revealed cross-cutting factors behind mortality from both suicide and mental health comorbidities,” says Professor Carol Worthman.

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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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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. . In other words, how similar are the individuals diagnosed with a given disorder in clinical practice to those who are diagnosed in research settings? Although, there were a few bright spots (e.g.,

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Prioritizing Mental Health on College Campuses

Society of Clinical Psychology

We used data from the initial round of WMH-ICS surveys administered to 14,371 students in 19 colleges and universities across eight mostly high-income countries (Australia, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, and United States). Not surprisingly, MDD (21.2%) and GAD (18.6%) are the most common lifetime disorders.