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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...
Getting Better Outcomes from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatments
Several effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exist, yet nearly half of patients continue to have significant...
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...












