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How maternal stress and depression impacts child development
Research

How maternal stress and depression impacts child development

People often refer to depression as "passed on." Research does show a greater genetic risk of experiencing depression when either...
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Evidence-based social anxiety training for therapists
Continuing Ed. Research

Evidence-based social anxiety training for therapists

Social anxiety is extremely common. Some estimates put it at or among the top of the list of mental health...
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Is the Enneagram reliable? What the evidence says
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Is the Enneagram reliable? What the evidence says

When it comes to psychological tests, they need to be reliable in order to be accurate. We again use reliability...
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Political anxiety and stress: How do therapists help?
Policy Research

Political anxiety and stress: How do therapists help?

Political stress often gets discussed during election season. However, US presidential administration policies in 2025 continues to create great uncertainty...
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Conversion therapy case reaches Supreme Court
Policy Research

Conversion therapy case reaches Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to a lower court ruling accepting the State of Colorado's ability...
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Emotion regulation in therapy: Evidence-based does it
Continuing Ed. Research

Emotion regulation in therapy: Evidence-based does it

We hear the term emotion regulation all the time. This concept has even become increasingly popular in the mental health...
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How effective are AI therapists? What are human therapists to do?
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How effective are AI therapists? What are human therapists to do?

We have written about initial research on AI therapy chatbots. Recent reports point to a drastic recent increase in AI...
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Why are negative emotions good?
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Why are negative emotions good?

There is discussion lately about how why negative emotions are good. This reframing is helpful for clients and individuals trying...
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Research Findings

How maternal stress and depression impacts child development

How maternal stress and depression impacts child development

Research
People often refer to depression as "passed on." Research does show a greater genetic risk of experiencing depression when either...
Read More
Evidence-based social anxiety training for therapists

Evidence-based social anxiety training for therapists

Continuing Ed. Research
Social anxiety is extremely common. Some estimates put it at or among the top of the list of mental health...
Read More
Is the Enneagram reliable? What the evidence says

Is the Enneagram reliable? What the evidence says

Research
When it comes to psychological tests, they need to be reliable in order to be accurate. We again use reliability...
Read More
Political anxiety and stress: How do therapists help?

Political anxiety and stress: How do therapists help?

Policy Research
Political stress often gets discussed during election season. However, US presidential administration policies in 2025 continues to create great uncertainty...
Read More
Conversion therapy case reaches Supreme Court

Conversion therapy case reaches Supreme Court

Policy Research
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to a lower court ruling accepting the State of Colorado's ability...
Read More
Emotion regulation in therapy: Evidence-based does it

Emotion regulation in therapy: Evidence-based does it

Continuing Ed. Research
We hear the term emotion regulation all the time. This concept has even become increasingly popular in the mental health...
Read More
How effective are AI therapists? What are human therapists to do?

How effective are AI therapists? What are human therapists to do?

Research Tech
We have written about initial research on AI therapy chatbots. Recent reports point to a drastic recent increase in AI...
Read More
Why are negative emotions good?

Why are negative emotions good?

Research
There is discussion lately about how why negative emotions are good. This reframing is helpful for clients and individuals trying...
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How to conduct measurement based care in mental health

How to conduct measurement based care in mental health

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Measurement-based care helps us identify how well clients progress during therapy. Our recent article discussed why this evidence-based approach helps....
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Facing love addiction: What it is and therapist training to help clients

Facing love addiction: What it is and therapist training to help clients

Continuing Ed. Research
Desperately seeking attachment bonds without healthy ways of maintaining those bonds? Research has begun to study these patterns and consider...
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Measurement-based care: How do we know we are helping?

Measurement-based care: How do we know we are helping?

Research
We all feel pretty good when we help the clients we work with. After all, that’s what we want and...
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Narcissistic personality disorder training for therapists

Narcissistic personality disorder training for therapists

Continuing Ed. Research
It's interesting that those who experience narcissistic personality disorder often don't show up for therapy. At least not for narcissistic...
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Development of borderline personality disorder and how to help

Development of borderline personality disorder and how to help

Research
How does borderline personality disorder develop? We all know the nature vs nurture debate. "This again??" But research continues to...
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Behavioral weight loss therapy and therapist trainings

Behavioral weight loss therapy and therapist trainings

Continuing Ed. Research
There are times of year when it seems like everyone is trying to lose weight. New year's resolution are a...
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Client retention strategies for mental health therapists.

Client retention strategies for mental health therapists.

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Therapists often ask "What client retention strategies help keep clients in therapy longer?" This is often due to desire to...
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Resources and therapy for loneliness

Resources and therapy for loneliness

Continuing Ed. Research
We all feel lonely at times. For some individuals, loneliness can be a much more chronic experience. And it often...
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Stanford plays with AI and mental health genetics

Stanford plays with AI and mental health genetics

Research Tech
Even the mental health field can't stay out of the AI hype. Our work is very human driven, but it...
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Ozempic for alcohol misuse too??

Ozempic for alcohol misuse too??

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New weight loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy are all the rage now. These mediations were originally developed to treat...
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Therapist resources for seasonal affective disorder

Therapist resources for seasonal affective disorder

Research
The colder months are a time when many individuals experience seasonal affective disorder. Some individuals even experience these symptoms in...
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Motivational Interviewing training: Foundations for change

Motivational Interviewing training: Foundations for change

Continuing Ed. Research
Creating change can be one of the hardest things for many of us to do. Anything from quitting smoking to...
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