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Observing therapist-patient interactions to predict dropout from psychotherapy

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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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Harnessing cultural identity as a protective factor in minority mental health: Applications to children and families

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Often times the field of clinical psychology assumes a “deficit-based” approach to minority mental health. 2014) and/or interviews (e.g., Cultural Formulation Interview, APA, 2013; University of Connecticut Racial/Ethnic Stress and Trauma Survey, Williams et al., at Florida International University. Trimble, F.

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Can You Change Your Personality Traits?

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Instead of pursuing our own intervention research, we decided, quite naively, to first look over the shoulder of our colleagues in clinical psychology. We also addressed additional questions that are pertinent to both clinical and personality psychology. Psychological Bulletin, 143 (2), 117-141. the Dodo Bird Verdict).

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

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Buss, BS; Robinson De Jesús-Romero, BA, MsC; Allison Peipert, BS; Isabella Starvaggi, BS Psychotherapy research in the 21st century Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the disability attributable to health conditions (Whiteford et al., 2018), and psychological makeup. 76, Issue 1. 2010; Wells & Horwood, 2004).

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Comparing psychotherapies for gay and bisexual men’s mental health

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Psychological science has advanced knowledge on sexual minority (e.g., Based on this knowledge, our team at Yale created an identity-affirming psychotherapy to reduce the cognitive, affective, and behavioral mechanisms through which stigma erodes sexual minority men’s mental health. Psychological distress. Depression symptoms.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

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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.,

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Keeping Culture in Mind: Mentalizing from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Mentalizing is the psychological capacity to reflect and understand behavior in terms of internal mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, and intentions (Fonagy, Gergely, Jurist, & Target, 2002). Lily Rothschild-Yakar received her PhD in psychology from the University of Haifa and is currently a Clinical Professor there.

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