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Department of Education mental health cuts
The Department of Education announced that it will cut funding for mental health services provided to qualifying school districts across...
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Late-stage therapy skills: A guide as clients get better
Effective therapy helps individuals learn evidence-based strategies on how to actively improve certain aspects of their lives. But what do...
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What is temperament, really? More than just disposition
We often hear the term "temperament" thrown around to mean any type of emotional disposition or affective response. In humans...
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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
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
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?
Political stress often gets discussed during election season. However, US presidential administration policies in 2025 continues to create great uncertainty...
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Research Findings
Depression updates: A guide to new directions for an old difficulty
It seems like wherever you look these days, you don't hear many clinicians say "I treat depression" or "I'm a...
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Department of Education mental health cuts
The Department of Education announced that it will cut funding for mental health services provided to qualifying school districts across...
Read More
Late-stage therapy skills: A guide as clients get better
Effective therapy helps individuals learn evidence-based strategies on how to actively improve certain aspects of their lives. But what do...
Read More
What is temperament, really? More than just disposition
We often hear the term "temperament" thrown around to mean any type of emotional disposition or affective response. In humans...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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
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
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?
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
We all feel lonely at times. For some individuals, loneliness can be a much more chronic experience. And it often...
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Curated Research Findings
bridge finds and posts high quality articles discussing therapist resources and research important to the mental health field. New articles posted weekly and directly linked here!
- Psychedelic Ayahuasca Could Produce Either Positive or Negative Mental Health Effectsby Paul Smaglik on May 1, 2025 at 6:19 pm
Prior mental health conditions, as well as the environment in which ayahuasca is taken and the people around participants can all impact the …
- Girls With ADHD Face Higher Risk of Anxietyby Neuroscience News on May 1, 2025 at 6:18 pm
A new study reveals that in girls, symptoms of inattentive-type ADHD significantly increase the likelihood of developing anxiety during adolescence. …
- Marijuana Withdrawal Symptoms and How to Manage Themby Angelica Bottaro on May 1, 2025 at 6:17 pm
Close to 50% of regular or dependent marijuana users will experience withdrawal symptoms after they stop or significantly reduce their cannabis …
- Scientists Discover a Trait in Speech That Foreshadows Cognitive Declineby The Conversation on March 11, 2025 at 11:36 pm
Can you pass me the whatchamacallit? It's right over there next to the thingamajig. Many of us will experience "lethologica", or difficulty finding …
- Brain Circuit Discovery Reveals How Empathy Shapes Our Behaviorby Neuroscience News on March 11, 2025 at 5:09 pm
Researchers have discovered how specific brain circuits process empathy, showing that witnessing others in pain activates the same neural pathways as …
- How the Brain Overcomes Instinctive Fear and Adapts to New Threatsby Neuroscience News on February 7, 2025 at 1:33 am
Researchers have identified brain mechanisms that help animals suppress instinctive fear responses when threats prove harmless over time. Using a …
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