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Addressing Access in Ethnoracially Diverse Populations: Lessons from a University-Based Community Mental Health Center

Society of Clinical Psychology

Given that our clinic is a doctoral training clinic, the finding that racial match may impact outcomes emphasizes a need to recruit and support diverse cohorts of graduate students in clinical psychology PhD programs. As mental health providers within an institution, we must continue engaging in community outreach to erase treatment gaps.

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Harnessing cultural identity as a protective factor in minority mental health: Applications to children and families

Society of Clinical Psychology

While affirming and empowering individuals through their strengths and cultural identities has the potential to better elevate and engage individuals in mental health treatments, it is not sufficient for addressing the profound structural inequities in our healthcare system, nor the social determinants (e.g., American Psychiatric Association.

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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Society of Clinical Psychology

PTSD is characterized by intrusive thoughts and trauma-related memories, avoidance of trauma-related triggers, maladaptive changes in thinking and affective processes, and alterations in arousal and reactivity (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Engaging in positive behavioral activities may also help them create more positive memories.

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

Buss, BS; Robinson De Jesús-Romero, BA, MsC; Allison Peipert, BS; Isabella Starvaggi, BS Psychotherapy research in the 21st century Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the disability attributable to health conditions (Whiteford et al., 2014), positive psychotherapy (Lopez-Gomez et al., 76, Issue 1.

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

But all going well, I suggest, what they’ll be met with in therapy is the opportunity to engage in a form of interaction which leaves them with a greater trust in their lovability, a greater clarity regarding what it is to love and be loved, and a greater capacity for loving. Is psychotherapy, too, not a more subtle selling of such a fantasy?