We often hear the term "temperament" thrown around to mean any type of emotional disposition or affective response. In humans...
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Featured Research Findings
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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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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Research Findings
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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Are the stages of grief real?
Most all clinicians and researchers agree that there is no "right" or "wrong" way to grieve. Kubler-Ross' 5-stage grief model...
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Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for PTSD
Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for PTSD was initially developed in the early 1990s for victims of sexual assault. Patricia Resick...
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), simplified
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS, or rTMS when used repeatedly) is a modern treatment for a number of psychological and neurological...
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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!
- 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 …
- Embrace your dark side: A new perspective on negative emotionsby Kevin Dickinson on February 7, 2025 at 1:31 am
In the 4th century A.D., Evagrius Ponticus escaped into the desert to contemplate salvation. An ascetic and philosopher, Evagrius came to believe …
- How to Relax and Unwind Without Drinking Alcoholby Angela Haupt on February 7, 2025 at 1:29 am
Alcohol has long been synonymous with relaxation. If you want to unwind after a rough day at work—or kick back on the couch, at a baseball game, or in the pool—there’s historically been a good chance you’ll have a drink in hand. Now, the tides are turning. In early January, then-U.S. Surgeon General …
- How CBD Modulates THC’s Impact on the Brainby Neuroscience News on February 7, 2025 at 1:26 am
Researchers have identified how CBD interacts with cannabinoid receptors to mitigate the negative effects of THC, the psychoactive component of …
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