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What Is and Is Not a Psychological Treatment?

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

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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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Compassion-Focused Therapy Strongly Improves Mental Health Outcomes: A Series of Meta-Analyses

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We only included papers with interventions that explicitly referred to Gilbert’s model of compassion as an evolved social motive, while we only considered cases of combined or integrated treatments if it was possible to disentangle the unique contribution of CFT.

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Diversity Spotlight: Nadine A. Chang, PhD

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in psychology at New York University , as well as her Ph.D. in clinical and school psychology at Hofstra University. Chang holds a position as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine , as well as a role as an Assistant Attending Psychologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

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Treating Older Adults: What Do We Need to Know?

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Among the American Psychological Association Center for Workforce Studies survey’s 4,109 doctoral-level respondents, only 1.2% as child and adolescent psychology specialists (Moye et al., Unlike coursework on child and developmental psychology, coursework on aging is often optional in graduate training. Clinical practice.

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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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Mental wellbeing can, and should, be assessed in clinical samples

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What would it mean for clinical psychology if we maintained an intentional focus on both treating mental illness and promoting mental wellbeing? While the integration of wellbeing into clinical psychology has come a long way, more work is needed before this approach will be widely adopted and even including into clinical training programs.

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