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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 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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Tele-health Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOPs)?
Mental health sometimes requires many types of support - from intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) to support groups to monthly "tune...
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Suicide risk and treatment in tele-health
Suicide is the most fatal and urgent topic in all of mental health. And it's no wonder licensing jurisdictions require...
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One T for trauma?
Some have started to use the terms "Big T" vs "little t" to describe traumatic stress reactions like PTSD vs...
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Attentional bias: A big culprit
Many of us have a tendency to focus more on negative experiences than positive or neutral ones. Researchers have consistently...
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Good vs bad: Bad is stronger than good
When it comes good vs bad, we are not saying that negative experiences are "better" or that evil wins over...
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“I think I have early-onset Alzheimer’s.”
"I can't remember anything these days! I must have early-onset Alzheimer's...." It is not uncommon to hear clients wonder whether...
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Is Adult ADHD real? Controversies and pitfalls
ADHD has affected many adults. But the concept of adult ADHD is actually controversial among researchers and neuropsychologists. This is...
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Never suppress?? Suppressing emotion and context
Never suppress your emotions? Giving clients the maxim "never suppress" is a behavior we may need to suppress. A lot...
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Prolonged grief disorder makes the cut!! (in DSM-5-TR)
Prolonged grief disorder is now a diagnosis in the new DSM-5-TR. So how cool are you to get to be...
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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!
- 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 …
- The Silent Surge of Sedative Addiction Among Young Adultsby By on January 24, 2025 at 12:16 am
A significant rise in sedative use disorders among adolescents and young adults points to an urgent need for improved prescribing practices and …
- Adults with ADHD live shorter lives than those without a diagnosis, a new study findsby Maria Godoy on January 24, 2025 at 12:11 am
A large new study finds adults diagnosed with ADHD live shorter lives than they should. The research, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, found that men diagnosed with ADHD were dying roughly 7 years younger compared to their counterparts without a diagnosis of ADHD. Women with ADHD lived …
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