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Research Findings in Mental Health

Positive Childhood Experiences

Move over adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), positive childhood experiences are coming to town! Many people in the mental health field...
Positive Childhood Experiences

What is the best substance abuse treatment?

How to best to approach substance abuse is a big and complex question for clinicians, researchers, and public policy officials...
What is the best substance abuse treatment?

Did the pandemic cause sudden personality change?

Mountains of research on the effectiveness of structured psychotherapies tell us that relatively quick changes in individual responses and behaviors...
Did the pandemic cause sudden personality change?

Psychedelic therapy does not treat everything

Does it seem like whenever an exciting new treatment or innovation comes along, it gets applied to everything? That may...
Psychedelic therapy does not treat everything

Is Borderline really a personality disorder?

There is currently a debate raging: is borderline personality disorder (BPD) actually a personality disorder? Some experts argue against the...
Is Borderline really a personality disorder?

Critical incident stress debriefing controversy. Making things worse?

Exposure to memories and exploring meaning of traumatic events is an effective component of trauma treatments. So that must mean...
Critical incident stress debriefing controversy. Making things worse?

Psychosis in the veins

Blood tests are becoming more advanced in the mental health world, with a new test coming out later this year...
Psychosis in the veins

Emotion and motivation: Why we regulate emotions

Why we have emotions at all is an age-old question. But why people manage emotions in certain ways and the...
Emotion and motivation: Why we regulate emotions

Does anxiety decrease with age? Recent spikes in youth anxiety.

As we age, do we get wiser and less reactive? Does anxiety decrease with age? Who can remember their parents...
Does anxiety decrease with age? Recent spikes in youth anxiety.

Bipolar psychosis: Its own brand of psychotic features

Bipolar psychosis can be a lot for anyone to deal with. It can also be challenging for the clinician to...
Bipolar psychosis: Its own brand of psychotic features

Obsession with happiness and finding contentment.

We all want to be experience happiness as much as possible. Clients especially want that, but often find it elusive...
Obsession with happiness and finding contentment.

Bipolar I and II: Can therapy really help?

Medication management is vital to the treatment of bipolar, but does therapy have an impact on symptoms? With a myriad...
Bipolar I and II: Can therapy really help?

Behavioral activation: Literal and figurative movement.

We’ve all heard the maxim “just do what you love”. But that’s often easier said than done. Especially for so...
Behavioral activation: Literal and figurative movement.

New AI / virtual reality therapy comes to Apple Vision Pro

Wait, which episode of Black Mirror are we in now? No, this isn’t science fiction. It’s now just science. A...
New AI / virtual reality therapy comes to Apple Vision Pro

Impacts of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT)

Borderline personality disorder can be very hard to treat, but don’t worry, Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) has your back. MBT...
Impacts of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT)

Trauma and the brain: It’s different for PTSD

There has been an increasing interest in understanding trauma and the brain. Ideas like the body “keeping score” have helped...
Trauma and the brain: It’s different for PTSD

Rumination. Let’s mull it over (but not for too long).

We often ask clients to consider many aspects of difficult events and how they respond. But we have probably all...
Rumination. Let’s mull it over (but not for too long).

Kratom: What clinicians should know

So…. Does anyone actually know what kratom does? Kratom is an herbal substance from Southeast Asia that has both stimulant...
Kratom: What clinicians should know

ERP: Our best OCD treatment. Training is out there!

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can be extremely difficult for those who experience it. The best OCD treatment options to help...
ERP: Our best OCD treatment. Training is out there!

The 5 love languages debunked.

Now we’re not trying to burst anyone’s love bubble here. Especially not for something so nebulous and often “confusing AF”...
The 5 love languages debunked.

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