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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. in press).

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‘Why we’re providing therapy for parents in pre-proceedings’

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We began to feel that the parents involved needed psychological treatment. At the same time, psychological assessments of parents in care proceedings almost always recommended psychological treatment. This exposed the significant disparity between the support provided to parents and what they required. It will also save money.

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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., 2018), and psychological makeup. 76, Issue 1. In the United States (U.S.),

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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). 2013), psychological problems (e.g., Bomyea et al., 2018; Kida, 2019; Ono et al.,

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Systemic racism in the economy, the healthcare system, and the field of clinical psychology perpetuates the disparities in access, retention, and effectiveness of mental health services. The FSU Psychology Clinic is a training clinic staffed by doctoral students and housed within the university’s clinical psychology PhD program.

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Identifying Mechanisms of Change in Clinical Supervision

Society of Clinical Psychology

This is a Section 10 Student Blog Post on identifying mechanisms of change in clinical supervision written by Lucas Zullo , a fourth year doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and his clinical supervisor, Dr. Mona Robbins. 2013; Cha et al., About the Authors. Dr. Mona A.

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Do psychotherapists improve with time and experience?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Psychotherapy is not always, of course, a predictable environment. Research on expertise in psychotherapy has relied heavily on cross-sectional designs (Stein & Lambert, 1995). 2016) aimed to provide a direct empirical test of whether psychotherapists improve over time using a longitudinal, naturalistic psychotherapy data set.