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Parental Military Deployment and Children: What Have We Learned from More than a Decade of War?
by Candice A. Alfano & Simon Lau, Department of Psychology, University of Houston A common saying in the military is that when...
Social Comparison Feedback to Reduce Heavy Drinking among College Drinkers
Social influences are a primary contributor of heavy drinking among young adults (Neighbors, Lee, Lewis, Fossos, & Larimer,...
What we know now about bridging the gap between research and practice
About two decades ago, psychologists who develop and study psychotherapy interventions began to recognize that publications on the...
Dropping Out of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has earned a position of high regard in the scheme of evidence-based treatment of psychological...
Writing Trauma Narratives Increases Temporal Organization & Habituation
Emotional processing theory posits that the therapeutic benefits of exposure include habituation to the distress triggered by trauma...
The anti-depressive effects of cognitive behavioral therapy are in decline: What is the next step forward for psychotherapy?
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), in its current format, was developed and implemented as an anti-depressive treatment in the...
Preventing Interpersonal Violence among Military Veterans: The Strength at Home Program
Intimate partner violence (IPV) represents a significant clinical problem among veterans and service members. Numerous studies...
Consumer Marketing of Psychological Treatments: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Direct-to-consumer marketing: The next wave of dissemination and implementation? Most Americans are familiar with the pharmaceutical...
Outcome monitoring and feedback: A transtheoretical, transdiagnostic evidence-based practice
This blog piece by Dr. James Boswell discusses a recent study published by his research team in Psychotherapy entitled, "Implementing...
Increasing the Use of Effective Behavioral Treatments through Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
This piece by guest blogger, Dr. Sara Becker, summarizes ideas from her recent manuscript, Direct-to-Consumer Marketing: A...
What Is This Treatment and Will It Work For Me?
This is a blog piece by Damion Grasso, Ph.D. (Division 12 Web Editor) that explores how we communicate information about treatment...