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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Society of Clinical Psychology

Trauma exposure takes a toll on societies and individuals, leading to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for a sizable minority of individuals (Magruder et al., As such, intervening on memory-related processes has been a key focus when treating PTSD. 2013), psychological problems (e.g., Bomyea et al.,

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

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A nervous breakdown, also called mental breakdown, refers to the inability to perform functions of daily life due to intense psychological distress. Symptoms of a Nervous Breakdown Various physical, psychological, and behavioral symptoms are present when someone is dealing with a breakdown.

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Addressing Racism and Racial Trauma in Behavioral Healthcare: A Review With the Experts

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Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. Dr. Jamila Holcomb is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Tallahassee, Florida, specializing in individual, family, and trauma counseling.

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Technology and the future of cognitive-behavioral interventions

Society of Clinical Psychology

However, these gold-standard CBT treatments remain extremely difficult to access, leaving wide gaps between those who need psychological care and those who actually receive it (Wang et al., is an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Author Bios.

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It’s Time for a Change in How We Design, Develop, Test and Disseminate Empirically Supported Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

Folks in psychology may not fully appreciate that the evidence-based care movement actually started in general medicine, before it took hold in clinical psychology. If we as a profession continue to take this position, clinical psychology will end up being assigned to the scrap heap of irrelevant disciplines.

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Treatment Considerations for Undocumented Patients

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP Blog is written by David Talavera, a Clinical Psychology PhD candidate at the University of Houston who is completing his predoctoral internship at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance. Let’s try a little exercise: Pretend you’re a patient waiting for your therapist for the first time. You’re in the waiting room.

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The Promise of Transdiagnostic Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

Society of Clinical Psychology

David Barlow and Matthew Gallagher discusses a new article in JAMA Psychiatry pertaining to the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders. JAMA psychiatry , 74, 875-884. Barlow is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University.

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