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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
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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How to choose inpatient care for eating disorders
Eating disorders come with high physical and emotional risk to the client. There’s also high potential for a lot of...
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Treatment of trauma and shame
So trauma isn't all just based on fear?? Shame has been increasingly recognized as a key component of PTSD reactions...
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CBT for insomnia (CBTi): Training, research, and resources
Complaints about sleep and insomnia are something we hear from clients all the time. There are medical reasons for some...
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Depression in Children
A study published in JAMA Pediatrics found that depression diagnoses increased by 27% for children ages three to seventeen between...
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Suppression does not lead to emotional rebound.
"If you hold those emotions in they will just explode later." "Emotions I hold in come back stronger later." "Pent...
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Using VR for mental health treatment
VR for mental health treatment?? Wait.... Does that really work? Researchers have examined virtual reality (VR) for treating mental health...
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Why do we have emotions?: An influential theory
Why do we have emotions? Why do we seem to emote differently than other animals? How do other processes like...
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Motivational Interviewing in Substance Use Treatment
Motivational interviewing helps a wide range of clients who walk through our doors to move from a state of ambivalence...
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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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