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Antidepressants or Psychodynamic Therapy for Depression: Which Works for Whom?
Depression is the world’s top cause of disability, affecting millions and deeply impacting daily life (World Health Organization,...
Real-life data in behavioral addictions research: Why methods matter
While internet-based behaviors are commonly part of everyday life, some of them have the potential to become addictive if they are...
Population Problems, Population Solutions: School-Based SBIRT for Youth Mental Health
Today’s children and adolescents are facing mental health concerns on a scale so widespread that public health officials have...
Addressing Access in Ethnoracially Diverse Populations: Lessons from a University-Based Community Mental Health Center
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the George Floyd Uprising, and the Stop Asian Hate movement, ethnically and racially...
Is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Effective as a Standalone Treatment for Substance Use Disorders? An Evaluation Using the Tolin Criteria
How do we know if psychological treatments are effective? To answer the question “Is cognitive-behavioral therapy effective as a...
Behavioral interventions in community settings for Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Meta-analysis
Early behavioral interventions (BI) such as applied behavior analysis (ABA) and early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) are...
Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Review
Diversity is not an adjunct descriptor of the U.S. population, but rather, it is a fundamental construct of our country’s...
Investigating the transdiagnostic nature of rumination across depressive, anxiety and eating disorders: A meta-analysis.
Investigating transdiagnostic factors across mental disorders is of high importance as transdiagnostic factors can be targeted for...
Comparing psychotherapies for gay and bisexual men’s mental health
Psychological science has advanced knowledge on sexual minority (e.g., gay, bisexual) men’s health, finding that: Sexual minority men...
Towards rigorous and flexible research designs for personalized psychotherapy
Rigorous and flexible research designs? Although this sounds like a contradiction, it is exactly what we need. Methodological rigor...
The Promise of Data Informed Patient-Therapist Matching: Context Matters
It may come as no surprise to patients and therapists to hear that the therapist matters when it comes to the quality of...












