Distress tolerance is often conceptualized as one’s ability to tolerate and withstand negative or uncomfortable emotional states....
What does Distress Tolerance have to do with Depression? A Review
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Why Reporting Harms Matters
What is the public health significance of this article? Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly important in healthcare....
Loneliness and psychosis in clinical practice
In practice, clinical psychologists typically focus on diagnosing and treating specific mental health conditions. As a consequence,...
Internalized Racism and Mental Health
A recent article out now by Sosoo, Bernard, and Neblett (2019) titled “the influence of internalized racism on the relationship...
When patients overreport symptoms: More than just malingering
Every clinician is familiar with patients who describe their complaints in a way that raises concerns as to the plausibility of their...
Training therapists in evidence-based mental health interventions: What works and what holds promise for the future?
“Jenna” was an adolescent who presented for treatment at a specialty clinic after having been in therapy for several years. During...
When and How Video Games Can Be Good
It is commonly believed that video games are inherently unhealthy for individuals and for society as a whole. For example, a recent...
Anxiety Treatments on Repetitive Negative Thinking
A client presents with problems of anxiety. Most distressing to the client is his excessive worry about a number of things that he...
Technology and the future of cognitive-behavioral interventions
Our field has accumulated a lot of empirical support for the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating a wide range of...
Ideological Bias in Social Sciences and Implications for Clinical Practice
Over the decades, the American Psychological Association (APA) and other professional psychology organizations have provided...
Prescriptive Authority for Clinical Psychologists
Prescriptive authority for psychologists has been hotly debated for decades, with literature identifying various stakeholder...
Telehealth is Gaining Traction, but do Mental Health Providers Like It?
It is hard to ignore the growing interest in telemental health care provided via videoconferencing (TMH-V). Similar to Skype or...