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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

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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Internet-based psychotherapy may be cost-effective for anxiety and depression

The Social Care Elf

Ally Canaway blogs a systematic review which finds evidence of internet-based psychological interventions being cost-effective for depression and anxiety. The post Internet-based psychotherapy may be cost-effective for anxiety and depression appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Sexism Makes it Harder for Girls to Benefit from Therapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

In this blog post, I describe a study that my colleagues and I conducted examining whether psychotherapies are less effective for girls in places with higher sexism. prejudicial norms, economic inequality) relate to intervention efficacy (i.e., how efficacious an intervention, such as psychotherapy or medication, is).

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

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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What can we learn from cultural adaptations of dialectical behavior therapy?

Society of Clinical Psychology

However, the psychotherapies that treat these concerns have been mainly developed by and for people who are White and live in Western countries. Because of this, many efforts have been made adapt psychotherapy to the cultures of people of color and cross-cultural clients. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

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Dissemination before evidence? What are the driving forces behind the dissemination of mindfulness-based interventions?

Society of Clinical Psychology

During the past decades there has been a rapidly growing interest in mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) like MBSR or MBCT. We contend that, in addition to empirical arguments, a complex mixture of historical, social and psychological factors has fueled the acceptance of MBIs in the healthcare systems of Western societies.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

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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