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Featured Research Findings

Psychedelic therapy does not treat everything
Policy Research

Psychedelic therapy does not treat everything

Does it seem like whenever an exciting new treatment or understanding comes along, it gets applied to everything? That may...
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Is Borderline really a personality disorder?
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Is Borderline really a personality disorder?

There is currently a debate raging: is borderline personality disorder (BPD) actually a personality disorder? Some experts argue against the...
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Critical incident stress debriefing could make things worse
Continuing Ed. Research

Critical incident stress debriefing could make things worse

Exposure to memories and exploring meaning of traumatic events is an effective component of trauma treatments. So that must mean...
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Psychosis in the veins
Research Tech

Psychosis in the veins

Blood tests are becoming more advanced in the mental health world, with a new test coming out later this year...
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Emotion and motivation: Why we regulate emotions
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Emotion and motivation: Why we regulate emotions

Why we have emotions at all is an age-old question. But why people manage emotions in certain ways and the...
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Does anxiety decrease with age? Recent spikes in youth anxiety.
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Does anxiety decrease with age? Recent spikes in youth anxiety.

As we age, do we get wiser and less reactive? Does anxiety decrease with age? Who can remember their parents...
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Bipolar psychosis: Its own brand of psychotic features
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Bipolar psychosis: Its own brand of psychotic features

Bipolar psychosis can be a lot for anyone to deal with. It can also be challenging for the clinician to...
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Obsession with happiness and finding contentment.
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Obsession with happiness and finding contentment.

We all want to be experience happiness as much as possible. Clients especially want that, but often find it elusive....
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Research Findings

Psychedelic therapy does not treat everything

Psychedelic therapy does not treat everything

Policy Research
Does it seem like whenever an exciting new treatment or understanding comes along, it gets applied to everything? That may...
Read More
Is Borderline really a personality disorder?

Is Borderline really a personality disorder?

Research
There is currently a debate raging: is borderline personality disorder (BPD) actually a personality disorder? Some experts argue against the...
Read More
Critical incident stress debriefing could make things worse

Critical incident stress debriefing could make things worse

Continuing Ed. Research
Exposure to memories and exploring meaning of traumatic events is an effective component of trauma treatments. So that must mean...
Read More
Psychosis in the veins

Psychosis in the veins

Research Tech
Blood tests are becoming more advanced in the mental health world, with a new test coming out later this year...
Read More
Emotion and motivation: Why we regulate emotions

Emotion and motivation: Why we regulate emotions

Research
Why we have emotions at all is an age-old question. But why people manage emotions in certain ways and the...
Read More
Does anxiety decrease with age? Recent spikes in youth anxiety.

Does anxiety decrease with age? Recent spikes in youth anxiety.

Research
As we age, do we get wiser and less reactive? Does anxiety decrease with age? Who can remember their parents...
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Bipolar psychosis: Its own brand of psychotic features

Bipolar psychosis: Its own brand of psychotic features

Research
Bipolar psychosis can be a lot for anyone to deal with. It can also be challenging for the clinician to...
Read More
Obsession with happiness and finding contentment.

Obsession with happiness and finding contentment.

Research
We all want to be experience happiness as much as possible. Clients especially want that, but often find it elusive....
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Bipolar I and II: Can therapy really help?

Bipolar I and II: Can therapy really help?

Research
Medication management is vital to the treatment of bipolar, but does therapy have an impact on symptoms? With a myriad...
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Behavioral activation: Literal and figurative movement.

Behavioral activation: Literal and figurative movement.

Continuing Ed. Research
We've all heard the maxim "just do what you love". But that's often easier said than done. Especially for so...
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New AI / virtual reality therapy comes to Apple Vision Pro

New AI / virtual reality therapy comes to Apple Vision Pro

Research Tech
Wait, which episode of Black Mirror are we in now? No, this isn't science fiction. It's now just science. A...
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Impacts of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT)

Impacts of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT)

Continuing Ed. Research
Borderline personality disorder can be very hard to treat, but don't worry, Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) has your back. MBT...
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Trauma and the brain: It’s different for PTSD

Trauma and the brain: It’s different for PTSD

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There has been an increasing interest in understanding trauma and the brain. Ideas like the body "keeping score" have helped...
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Rumination. Let’s mull it over (but not for too long).

Rumination. Let’s mull it over (but not for too long).

Research
We often ask clients to consider many aspects of difficult events and how they respond. But we have probably all...
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Kratom: What clinicians should know

Kratom: What clinicians should know

Policy Research
So.... Does anyone actually know what kratom does? Kratom is an herbal substance from Southeast Asia that has both stimulant...
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Our best OCD treatment: Training is out there!

Our best OCD treatment: Training is out there!

Continuing Ed. Research
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can be extremely difficult for those who experience it. The best OCD treatment options to help...
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The 5 love languages debunked.

The 5 love languages debunked.

Research
Now we're not trying to burst anyone's love bubble here. Especially not for something so nebulous and often "confusing AF"...
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Longer-term client outcomes in telehealth vs in-person

Longer-term client outcomes in telehealth vs in-person

Research
Will clients benefit more from telehealth vs in-person treatment? The pandemic changed many areas of our lives, including how we...
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Does exposure therapy harm clients?

Does exposure therapy harm clients?

Continuing Ed. Research
"The only thing to fear is fear itself." Was Roosevelt onto something in his attempts to encourage citizens to face...
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Attention and its difficulties: More than ADHD?

Attention and its difficulties: More than ADHD?

Research
ADHD seems to have really gained popularity among consumers. It may be that when individuals have difficulties with attention, labeling...
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