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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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Comparing psychotherapies for gay and bisexual men’s mental health

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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. The post Comparing psychotherapies for gay and bisexual men’s mental health first appeared on Society of Clinical Psychology.

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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., 2014), positive psychotherapy (Lopez-Gomez et al., 76, Issue 1.

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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., 23 (Samuel, 2015).

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

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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. Dr. Amanda Sanchez earned her PhD in Clinical Science at Florida International University. First, assessment is key.

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

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To this end, we first outline a conceptual framework for the understanding of mentalizing from a cross-cultural perspective in the context of the universalism–relativism debate. Lily Rothschild-Yakar received her PhD in psychology from the University of Haifa and is currently a Clinical Professor there. Psychotherapy , 51 (3), 372.

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Can You Change Your Personality Traits?

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We know we are not the only ones who are curious because it seems that this question arises during every related talk or interview. We understand the difficulty in conducting psychotherapy outcome research; in our estimate, it is some of the most difficult research to do. This was most compellingly presented by Tang et al. Author Bio.