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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. Boness, C.

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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

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Over about the last 50 years, clinical research has proven without a doubt that psychotherapy significantly alleviates the symptoms of a wide range of mental illnesses, for example, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and addictions (Lutz et al., in an early session of psychotherapy. Bennemann, B.,

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Can prisoners with mental health problems benefit from psychological therapy? Yes, but health and justice need to be closer friends.

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correspondents with a new article in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology titled, “Outcomes of Psychological Therapies for Prisoners with Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. This SCP blog by Karen Slade, Psy.D. 2007; Butler et al.,

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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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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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Identifying Mechanisms of Change in Clinical Supervision

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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. References. McMakin, D.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

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This SCP Blog post by Brittany Speed, Brandon Goldstein, and Dr. Marvin Goldfried discuss their recent publication in CP:SP addressing the role of assertiveness training in clinical psychology. All of that supports the utility of assertiveness training as an important stand-alone clinical intervention. saying no).

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Often times the field of clinical psychology assumes a “deficit-based” approach to minority mental health. cultural socialization, or emphasizing cultural pride and heritage) have been identified as important treatment targets in interventions that were specifically designed with and for African American families (e.g., Anderson et al.,