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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety: An Overview and Future Directions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), deemed a “well-established” intervention for the treatment of child and adolescent anxiety...
Making Meaning of Mixed Evidential Value for Research on Empirically Supported Treatments (ESTs)
During the 1970’s, psychological researchers began using randomized controlled trials--just like in medicine--in order to...
Keeping Culture in Mind: Mentalizing from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Mentalizing is the psychological capacity to reflect and understand behavior in terms of internal mental states, such as thoughts,...
Meta-analysis of Life Review Therapy RCTs for Treating Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults
Joyce is a woman of 63 years. Like almost one in five older adults, she struggles with feelings of depression. In her case, important...
Quantity of Teen Technology Use Not Harming Mental Health
Parents and the public are increasingly concerned that adolescents’ rapid adoption of the smartphone and other modern technologies is...
Have Youth Psychotherapies Reached Their Limit?
A great deal of time, money, and effort has gone into creating and implementing high-quality psychotherapies for youth. Researchers...
Toward a Positive Psychology of Immigrants
For the past 60 years, psychological research as a whole has been dominated by the deficit model of psychopathology that centers on...
The Relationship between Gender Affirming Medical Interventions and Social Anxiety Among Transgender or Gender Non-Conforming Individuals
Gender affirming medical interventions (GAMI) are interventions that some, but not all, transgender or gender non-conforming (TGNC)...
Empathy in Computer-Mediated Interactions
Numerous studies support the effectiveness of online therapy (Backhaus et al., 2012; Bee et al., 2008), but little research has been...
Wearable devices as adjuncts in treating anxiety: Weighing up the benefits and risks
Technological developments in e-mental health represent an exciting new frontier for psychologists. While these developments bring...
Violent offender treatment effectiveness: What we know and where to from here?
This SCP Blog piece by Drs Papalia, Spivak, Daffern, and Ogloff discusses a recent meta-analytic review of psychological treatments...