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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

Denise Sloan and Brian Marx discusses findings from a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry that compares the effectiveness of a brief exposure-based therapy for PTSD with Cognitive Processing Therapy with implications for finding the ‘right treatment dose’ for reducing symptoms. Watts et al.). 2012; Nacasch et al.,

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Unlike PTSD, which is a mental illness that develops in adulthood when an adult is aware of the traumatic experience they go through, cPTSD is a mental illness borne of ongoing trauma in childhood.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024: My Voice Matters

MQ Mental Health

Unlike PTSD, which is a mental illness that develops in adulthood when an adult is aware of the traumatic experience they go through, cPTSD is a mental illness borne of ongoing trauma in childhood.

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Members in the News – August 11, 2023

Social Workers Speak

My main specialty is in providing trauma therapy to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I provide online counseling services to adults living in the Commonwealth of Virginia. I am a native New Yorker but relocated. .”

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Is Mental Health a Human Right?

MQ Mental Health

It has been argued that this adjustment has advantages, including shining a light on the many social, political and economic factors that create disparities for people with mental health conditions or psychosocial disability. We do so by: supporting researchers discovering better treatments, such as for PTSD.

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The Promise of Transdiagnostic Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

Society of Clinical Psychology

Significant progress has been made in recent decades in identifying effective psychosocial treatments for anxiety and mood disorders. hope, optimism, self-efficacy) promotes well-being and provides resilience to PTSD and other anxiety disorders.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

As we have started to investigate reasons why evidence-based psychosocial treatments (EBPTs) aren’t widely used in everyday practice, a new area of research, implementation science, has emerged. Shannon Wiltsey Stirman is a Psychologist at the National Center for PTSD and an Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine.