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2022 International Women’s Day

MQ Mental Health

She has since delivered Tedx talks and was named one of the BBC’s most influential women in the world. Most importantly, Ethels research has the potential to make a difference to millions of lives globally.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

For adults with mental illness, recovery can be improved by positive risk-taking and there is some argument for psychotherapy to lean more towards developing authenticity, competence and autonomy or self-belief. Once someone has mental health problems, there are many ways mental illness can affect autonomy.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

For adults with mental illness, recovery can be improved by positive risk-taking and there is some argument for psychotherapy to lean more towards developing authenticity, competence and autonomy or self-belief. Once someone has mental health problems, there are many ways mental illness can affect autonomy.

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What we know now about bridging the gap between research and practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

About two decades ago, psychologists who develop and study psychotherapy interventions began to recognize that publications on the efficacy of new psychotherapies were not sufficient to change practice. 2010 for a summary). But this still isn’t the whole picture. Aarons, Hurlburt, & Horwitz.,

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although psychotherapy has been in existence for over a century, the field has struggled to build upon research findings with consistent, accumulating evidence. What can the field of clinical psychology do to prevent past findings on psychotherapy from disappearing in the literature? Reference Article. Goldstein, B. Based Treatment.

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Why Reporting Harms Matters

Society of Clinical Psychology

This situation could result in psychopharmacology receiving more attention compared to psychosocial care, due simply to the availability of more comprehensive information about treatment, including harms, for use in decision making. This is unfortunate given the good quality research on psychotherapy efficacy. Ok, so now what?

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September is National Recovery Month: Supporting the Journey to Recovery 

Social Work Blog

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. Social workers help patients eliminate psychosocial stressors such as homelessness, loss of job, divorce, and loneliness that may have led to their use of substances.

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