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Is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Effective as a Standalone Treatment for Substance Use Disorders? An Evaluation Using the Tolin Criteria

Society of Clinical Psychology

How do we know if psychological treatments are effective? we must first answer the following: “How do we delineate effectiveness from non-effectiveness in evaluating psychological treatments?” In other words, how do we know if a given psychosocial treatment is effective for a given mental disorder?

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Diversity Spotlight: Sannisha K. Dale, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

Dale , a dual licensed clinical psychologist (MA/FL) and Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. Dr. Dale earned her Master’s degree in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2005, and completed her Ph.D.

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

When the interviewers go to Maya's home. Cooper tells us that Laing found Maya to appear delusional only when interviewed alone, but that when set in the context of her family's strange behaviour, her odd ideas make sense (i.e. In discussion, it emerges that Maya's parents have developed the idea that she can read their thoughts.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

Douglas Samuel from Purdue University discusses a recently published article in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. . I first conducted a systematic review of clinicians’ diagnoses based on unstructured interviews and learned that across 27 studies, the median dimensional agreement with research diagnoses (e.g., 23 (Samuel, 2015).

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