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Featured Research Findings
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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Research Findings
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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Bipolar I and II: Can therapy really help?
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.
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
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)
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
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).
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
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!
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can be extremely difficult for those who experience it. The best OCD treatment options to help...
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Curated Research Findings
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