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Featured Research Findings
Facing love addiction: What it is and therapist training to help clients
Desperately seek 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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Research Findings
How do prodromal symptoms influence client diagnoses?
Have you ever heard parents or loved ones say something like "I always knew something was different" about your client?...
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RDoC: A new(ish) effort to understand mental health
Ever notice how so many clients with depression ruminate, but so do clients with anxiety and trauma? Or how clients...
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Social media and mental health in youth: As bad as we think?
Social media seems baked into the lives of children and teens today. We see it. But the stats back it...
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Dr. Google and Mental Health Self-Diagnosis
Research suggests that as social media and Internet use has increased, there has been a steady increase in self-diagnosis. Some...
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Gratitude journal and other strategies: Is less more?
Gratitude and gratitude enhancement has become an increasingly popular topic. And it makes sense why! Research has increasingly shown multiple...
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GAD and worry: Not just anxiety about anything
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has often been thought of as anxiety about a range of topics. This may lead clinicians...
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New integrative therapy: The Unified Protocol
-"My type of therapy is the best." -"No my theories are better." "-You're both wrong, my perspective is the best...."...
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CBT for ADHD: An effective nonmedication option?
Medication has long been the frontline treatment for both child and adult ADHD. But medication can be a big decision...
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Psychoeducation for friends and family?
People seek counseling for a multitude of reasons. One reason is clients seeking support for their experiences with a friend...
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New grief theories and the brain
Brains.... So much recent research has attempted to understand how numerous human difficulties play out in the brain. Grief and...
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Cannabis for anxiety and mental health: Does it help?
We've probably all heard this: "Weed helps me relax." "I have a cannabis prescription for my anxiety." Some clients report...
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MDMA for PTSD: Welcome to the party.
"Ecstacy"? "Molly"? They weren't always just around to party. Researchers started to test MDMA for mental health difficulties in the...
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Is Myers-Briggs valid? Approach with caution.
When we ask "Is Myers-Briggs valid", we refer to validity in the nerdiest sense. That is, does the test actually...
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AI therapy chatbots for mental health??
Robots doing therapy??! We’ve all heard of the advent of AI tools, like Chat GPT. AI tools like “chatbots” that...
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How to build self-compassion in therapy
Compassion focused therapy is a CBT-like approach to therapy that helps clients build more self-compassion. Is it all just warm...
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Is trauma just about memory?
Some have called PTSD a disorder of memory. But can experiencing symptoms after a traumatic event just be due to...
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Are there really 7 types of ADHD?
A recent popular theory proposes 7 types of ADHD. This concept may be appealing for some clients and clinicians to...
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Does manifesting work?
"Put it out into the universe and it will come true." "If you believe it, it will manifest into existence."...
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Nature AND nurture?
So are we completely a product of our environment or is this stuff all just preset by genetics? This age-old...
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Adult vs. Adolescent Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are a complex mental condition that may necessitate different treatment based on life stage and medical needs. Assessing...
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