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Addressing Access in Ethnoracially Diverse Populations: Lessons from a University-Based Community Mental Health Center

Society of Clinical Psychology

Systemic racism in the economy, the healthcare system, and the field of clinical psychology perpetuates the disparities in access, retention, and effectiveness of mental health services. The FSU Psychology Clinic is a training clinic staffed by doctoral students and housed within the university’s clinical psychology PhD program.

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Parental Military Deployment and Children: What Have We Learned from More than a Decade of War?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Alfano & Simon Lau, Department of Psychology, University of Houston. A common saying in the military is that when one person joins the whole family serves. For many military families, geographic relocations, disrupted family routines, financial hardships, and fear of losing a loved one became a way of life.

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Predictors of veterans’ well-being after leaving service

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although many individuals do well after leaving the military, the transition from military to civilian life can be challenging for some military veterans. Higher psychological resilience (among veterans not reporting depression) also predicted higher well-being, especially when combined with higher social support.

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Diversity Spotlight: Dr. Nita Tewari

Society of Clinical Psychology

in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 1992. In 2000, she completed her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at Southern Illinois University. Based on her teaching curriculum, Dr. Tewari obtained a book contract and published Asian American Psychology: Current Perspectives in 2009.

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Getting Better Outcomes from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

Augmentation can include pharmacological treatments, psychological treatments, or novel or emerging treatments such as exercise, acupuncture, or art therapy. a first-line PTSD treatment such as prolonged exposure or cognitive processing therapy) with any psychological, pharmacological, or other treatment. Fear extinction. Author Bios.

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How do we know when posttraumatic stress disorder is getting better?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Dr Tracey Varker is a Senior Research Fellow at Phoenix Australia and has over 15 years’ experience in posttraumatic mental health, working with emergency services and military personnel, traumatic injury patients, and survivors of natural disasters. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 11 (2), 207-215.

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

Sloan is Associate Director, Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD and Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Brian Marx is a Staff Psychologist, Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD and Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine. PMCID: PMC5843538.

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