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Featured Research Findings
Continuing Ed.,ResearchI’m sure we have all seen it in life and in the therapy room: people just dead set and convinced...
ResearchDavid Wegner’s famous “White Bear” experiment is arguably one of the most intriguing findings in all of psychology and mental...
ResearchResearch finds that eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) is effective for PTSD. However, the scientific community still does...
Continuing Ed.,ResearchCognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) isn’t the only treatment in town. But everyone keeps talking about it because it just proves...
Research,TechQuestions about the effects of screen time abound in our modern society. Does it really affect mental health or social...
Policy,ResearchEconomic and social markers now show that men and boys are falling behind in multiple aspects of American society. Researchers...
ResearchClimate change has been brewing for a while now. But so has anxiety about climate change. Otherwise known now as...
ResearchThere is a human tendency to want to categorize things simply. This is no different for therapists. We often want...
Research Findings in Mental Health
Eating disorders are a complex mental condition that may necessitate different treatment based on life stage and medical needs. Assessing...
Eating disorders come with high physical and emotional risk to the client. There’s also high potential for a lot of...
So trauma isn’t all just based on fear?? Shame has been increasingly recognized as a key component of PTSD reactions...
Complaints about sleep and insomnia are something we hear from clients all the time. There are medical reasons for some...
A study published in JAMA Pediatrics found that depression diagnoses increased by 27% for children ages three to seventeen between...
“If you hold those emotions in they will just explode later.” “Emotions I hold in come back stronger later.” “Pent...
VR for mental health treatment?? Wait…. Does that really work? Researchers have examined virtual reality (VR) for treating mental health...
Why do we have emotions? Why do we seem to emote differently than other animals? How do other processes like...
Motivational interviewing helps a wide range of clients who walk through our doors to move from a state of ambivalence...
Most all clinicians and researchers agree that there is no “right” or “wrong” way to grieve. Kubler-Ross’ 5-stage grief model...
Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for PTSD was initially developed in the early 1990s for victims of sexual assault. Patricia Resick...
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS, or rTMS when used repeatedly) is a modern treatment for a number of psychological and neurological...
Mental health sometimes requires many types of support – from intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) to support groups to monthly “tune...
Suicide is the most fatal and urgent topic in all of mental health. And it’s no wonder licensing jurisdictions require...
Some have started to use the terms “Big T” vs “little t” to describe traumatic stress reactions like PTSD vs...
Many of us have a tendency to focus more on negative experiences than positive or neutral ones. Researchers have consistently...
When it comes good vs bad, we are not saying that negative experiences are “better” or that evil wins over...
“I can’t remember anything these days! I must have early-onset Alzheimer’s….” It is not uncommon to hear clients wonder whether...
ADHD has affected many adults. But the concept of adult ADHD is actually controversial among researchers and neuropsychologists. This is...
Never suppress your emotions? Giving clients the maxim “never suppress” is a behavior we may need to suppress. A lot...
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