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Compassion-Focused Therapy Strongly Improves Mental Health Outcomes: A Series of Meta-Analyses

Society of Clinical Psychology

About the Authors Nicola Petrocchi , PhD, is a psychotherapist and teaches Health Psychology and Psychopathology at the John Cabot University in Rome. Cristina Ottaviani , PhD, PsyD, is a clinical psychophysiologist and is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Jaskaran K.

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What’s on the Menu: A Scoping Review of Decision-Making in Modular Youth Psychotherapies

Society of Clinical Psychology

What if you could select from a menu to create an effective personalized “recipe” for treating each youth receiving psychotherapy? This personalization is an aim of modular youth psychotherapy, which provides a menu of treatment elements from which therapists select a distinctive combination and permutation for each child or adolescent.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety: An Overview and Future Directions

Society of Clinical Psychology

Lesley Norris is a fourth-year doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at Temple University working with Dr. Philip Kendall. Bergin and Garfield’s Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change (6th ed ed., Exposure Therapy for Anxious and OCD Children. Author Bio. Hollon, S. D., & Beck, A. Lambert (Ed.),

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Towards rigorous and flexible research designs for personalized psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

Flexibility in terms of adaptation to different individuals seeking help at varying psychotherapy contexts. Contemporary research designs, namely ambulatory assessments (AA), network analyses (NA), and single-case experimental designs (SCED), could potentially advance idiographic and nomothetic psychotherapy research and practice.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Like Thompson, they filled the day with activities that provided structure and predictability, the two things I needed as much as medication and psychotherapy. I worked at a university for about ten years. I fretted a lot about my university job and how it had treated me. So, what the hell am I doing here?” A challenge?”