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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., Capturing therapist-patient interactions.

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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. Challenges with mental health occur worldwide.

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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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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. Consequently, therapists might often be motivated to search for alternative treatment principles and interventions in the hope of increasing the effectiveness of their work. Role of spirituality in MBIs.

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Identifying Mechanisms of Change in Clinical Supervision

Society of Clinical Psychology

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., T began to see the progress she desired.

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What is evidence based practice in social work?

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I threw that out of the window after university! Similarly, you don’t add an intervention, or use another approach, based on what you feel. They also argue that evidence-based practice seems to imply that your social work practice interventions can be sufficiently justified with current ‘best evidence’ (2011:1179). What theory?

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