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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

Now, a new paper published in the Lancet Psychiatry calls for action on a global scale to put an end to the growing mortality rates of people with mental illness and distress. I envision that this paper will inform equitable, accessible and effective prevention and intervention across the globe in the future.”

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Parental Military Deployment and Children: What Have We Learned from More than a Decade of War?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Major military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have since ceased but the resulting instability of the Middle East almost certainly ensures future intervention. Effective support and intervention services for these two groups of children may in turn differ. The psychosocial effects of deployment on military children.

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Prioritizing Mental Health on College Campuses

Society of Clinical Psychology

This result has challenging clinical implications, as it indicates that transdiagnostic interventions directed at students with high comorbidity will be needed to reduce suicidal behaviors among students at risk by virtue of having suicide ideation. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 57 , 263-273.

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

Denise Sloan and Brian Marx discusses findings from a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry that compares the effectiveness of a brief exposure-based therapy for PTSD with Cognitive Processing Therapy with implications for finding the ‘right treatment dose’ for reducing symptoms. JAMA Psychiatry, 75, 233-239.

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Medication, Behavioral Therapy, or Both? Examining Understudied Domains for Children with ADHD

Society of Clinical Psychology

To evaluate whether behavioral intervention could improve the sports performance of children with ADHD, we conducted a 2 (medication, placebo) x 2 (sports training, recreational play) between-groups study over three weeks in the STP. Evidence-based psychosocial treatments for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Pelham, Jr.

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