It seems like wherever you look these days, you don't hear many clinicians say "I treat depression" or "I'm a...
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Featured Research Findings
Department of Education mental health cuts
The Department of Education announced that it will cut funding for mental health services provided to qualifying school districts across...
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Late-stage therapy skills: A guide as clients get better
Effective therapy helps individuals learn evidence-based strategies on how to actively improve certain aspects of their lives. But what do...
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What is temperament, really? More than just disposition
We often hear the term "temperament" thrown around to mean any type of emotional disposition or affective response. In humans...
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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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Research Findings
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: How to approach, assess, and help clients
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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Myths of catharsis and emotional venting
The modern conceptualization of catharsis originated from Freud, Breuer, and their other colleagues. They described the process of "abreation" (the...
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Prolonged exposure therapy training for PTSD
Trauma and PTSD following a discrete traumatic event(s) is something the mental health field does well in treating. Mountains of...
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Types of narcissism: It’s not so cut and dry.
Narcissism has become a popular framework to explain behavior that appears dominant in workplaces and maladaptive or harmful in relationships....
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Bloody Depression! A blood test for depression??
Researchers at Indiana University have developed a blood test to identify depression and bipolar disorders. It is thought to have...
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“Trauma-informed care”: Roots and directions
Many now refer to "trauma-informed care" as any assessment or intervention that acknowledges the possibility of a traumatic event(s). It...
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Psychedelic assisted therapy: All the rage.
There is no doubt that people who experience depression, anxiety, PTSD, and a number of other conditions can feel trapped...
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VR shows promise for pain psychology
Continued research has led chronic pain psychology and treatment to focus increasingly on cognitive-behavioral methods for managing pain (e.g., cognitive...
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Brain inflammation and depression
Recent research has found that depression may constitute a response to inflammation in the brain. Inflammation happens when you get...
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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!
- Psychedelic Ayahuasca Could Produce Either Positive or Negative Mental Health Effectsby Paul Smaglik on May 1, 2025 at 6:19 pm
Prior mental health conditions, as well as the environment in which ayahuasca is taken and the people around participants can all impact the …
- Girls With ADHD Face Higher Risk of Anxietyby Neuroscience News on May 1, 2025 at 6:18 pm
A new study reveals that in girls, symptoms of inattentive-type ADHD significantly increase the likelihood of developing anxiety during adolescence. …
- Marijuana Withdrawal Symptoms and How to Manage Themby Angelica Bottaro on May 1, 2025 at 6:17 pm
Close to 50% of regular or dependent marijuana users will experience withdrawal symptoms after they stop or significantly reduce their cannabis …
- 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 …
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