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Featured Research Findings
Ozempic for alcohol misuse too??
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
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
Creating change can be one of the hardest things for many of us to do. Anything from quitting smoking to...
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New Years resolutions: Supporting client behavior change
Many individuals try to enact new years resolutions to make some change(s) in their lives. These changes are difficult to...
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Anniversary and holiday grief support
Experiences of grief can intensify at so many points in life. Especially during particular importance to a individual (e.g., anniversaries)...
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Holiday stress coping strategies for clients
So many of us experience higher levels of stress during the Holidays. That can add a lot for therapy clients...
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Ozempic and eating disorders: Not a miracle drug.
New weight loss medications are all the rage. The weight loss benefits seem too good to be true and many...
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Research Findings
Exposure therapy training for anxiety disorders
Exposure therapy for anxiety forms the basis for so many of our most effective approaches in mental health. Exposure helps...
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Do mental health research studies care about clients?
For many therapists, it can seem like mental health research studies try to "put people in a box". It may...
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Correlations between sleep and resilience?
Many of us agree that sleep is wonderful. Whether this is personal opinion or therapeutic guidance may depend on the...
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Theory of social support: A strong predictor of adjustment
Many of us know how nothing is 100% in mental health. One event or pattern of behavior does not mean...
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Medication Management for ADHD and bipolar
Using medication to treat ADHD and bipolar doesn't have to be complicated. Both disorders contain abnormalities in the signaling of...
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Attachment training for therapists: Building secure to prevent suicide
Attachment styles and issues related to attachment have become extremely popular for clients and clinicians alike. The effects of attachment...
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Portable brain stimulation for anxiety and other conditions
Luck of the Irish, aye? Well in this case, we could call it skill. The Belfast-based startup Neurovalens has been...
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Smart drugs hurt performance for people without ADHD.
Many form the impression that drugs for ADHD can enhance their attention and cognitive abilities, even if they don't have...
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More evidence on the impact of childhood abuse
It is no secret that childhood abuse and neglect have a negative impact on adult mental health. For more than...
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Positive Childhood Experiences
Move over adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), positive childhood experiences are coming to town! Many people in the mental health field...
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What is the best substance abuse treatment?
How to best to approach substance abuse is a big and complex question for clinicians, researchers, and public policy officials....
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Did the pandemic cause sudden personality change?
Mountains of research on the effectiveness of structured psychotherapies tell us that relatively quick changes in individual responses and behaviors...
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Psychedelic therapy does not treat everything
Does it seem like whenever an exciting new treatment or innovation comes along, it gets applied to everything? That may...
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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
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
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
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.
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 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.
We all want to be experience happiness as much as possible. Clients especially want that, but often find it elusive....
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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!
- Why the “optimism bias” rules our hopes for the futureby Sumit Paul-Choudhury on January 17, 2025 at 12:48 am
What actually is optimism? One approach is to consider it as a psychological trait — an individual personality characteristic that affects an …
- From Wages to Wellness: The Hidden Fight Against Suicideby By on January 17, 2025 at 12:43 am
New York University researchers have explored how a variety of public policies — not just those explicitly targeting mental health — can effectively …
- Ketamine Reduces “Giving Up” by Targeting Brain Support Cellsby Neuroscience News on January 17, 2025 at 12:41 am
Researchers have found that ketamine’s antidepressant effects target astroglia, a type of brain support cell, rather than neurons, challenging …
- New Hope for Rapid-Acting Depression Treatmenton November 7, 2024 at 10:53 pm
A new study, funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health, showed that a new medication derived from ketamine is safe and acceptable for …
- Dandelion or orchid, early sensitivity shapes kids’ mental health journeysby Emily Reynolds on November 7, 2024 at 10:52 pm
Differences in sensitivity in young people are sometimes referred to as the "dandelion–orchid" dichotomy: 'orchid' children, like the flowers, are …
- Can a Mother’s Mental Health Impact a Baby in the Womb?by Daliah Singer on November 7, 2024 at 10:38 pm
Lying on the hospital bed with two elastic belts wrapped around my pregnant belly, I was doing my best to focus on the intake nurse’s questions: Have …
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