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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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Researcher Leads Study on Long COVID’s Effects on Mental Health and More

University of Connecticut

We are aiming to focus especially on the needs and experiences of Black/African American, and Latine individuals experiencing long Covid symptoms given that the psychosocial impact of long Covid on these populations has so far been understudied,” says Carolan. “We

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A roadmap to prevent people being gone too soon

MQ Mental Health

Professor Rory O’Connor, Director, Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab, Glasgow University “The Gone Too Soon road mapping process revealed cross-cutting factors behind mortality from both suicide and mental health comorbidities,” says Professor Carol Worthman.

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Unprecedented Experiment: Pandemic Initiatives Provide Roadmap to Ending U.S. Child Poverty

Social Work Blog

“You can see basically boomerang trends and measures of hunger, which unfortunately had dipped really low and then went right back up,” says Megan Curran, policy director at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. Curran co-authored a Center study on children left behind by the child tax credit in 2022.

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Training therapists in evidence-based mental health interventions: What works and what holds promise for the future?

Society of Clinical Psychology

However, despite all her years of psychosocial intervention, she had never received evidence-based interventions for her anxiety. Although evidence-based interventions exist for a wide variety of mental health disorders, they are rarely used in routine clinical practice.

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Targeting Anxiety Sensitivity in Prevention Treatments: A Meta-Analysis

Society of Clinical Psychology

Importantly, anxiety sensitivity is a malleable risk factor that can be addressed with a range of short-term interventions, making it a potentially important treatment target for both intervention and prevention efforts. The interventions additionally needed to be brief: six sessions or less.

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

All of that supports the utility of assertiveness training as an important stand-alone clinical intervention. Although a one-time core intervention, assertiveness training has experienced a dramatic decrease in the clinical and therapy research literature. unassertiveness) or an intervention (e.g. Discussion Questions.