Classifications of mental disorders are a necessary evil. Without a comprehensive, consensual list of the kinds of problems human...
Improving the clinical utility of mental disorder classifications
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Do psychotherapists improve with time and experience?
Naturally, we all want to get better at the things that we do. Psychotherapists too may like to think that as they gain experience,...
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...
Teaser Clip: Empirically Supported Treatment: Recommendations for a New Model (Feb. 17)
February 17, 2016 - 12:00p - 1:00p ET Empirically Supported Treatment: Recommendations for a New Model Presenter. Dr. Tolin, PhD is...
Teaser Clip: Monitoring Progress in Psychotherapy (Jan. 27)
Teaser Clip for January 27 Webinar by Dr. Persons January 27, 2016 - 12:00p - 1:00p ET Monitoring Progress in Psychotherapy...
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...
Teaser Clip for Nov. 4 Webinar by Dr. Harkness
Teaser Clip for Nov. 4 Webinar by Dr. Harkness November 4, 2015 – 2:00p – 3:00p ET Evaluation of Emotion, Personality, and Internal...
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...
SCP Town Hall Discussion on Clinical Psychology and the Hoffman Report
This recorded webinar focused on the recent report by Hoffman that found collusion between APA, leading members, and staff and the...