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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...
Prioritizing Mental Health on College Campuses
Increasingly, there is greater awareness that college students have high levels of clinically significant emotional problems, and...
Realizing the Promise: Strategic Dissemination and Implementation of CBT in Public and Private Health Care Systems
Although considered the gold standard psychological treatment for many mental and behavioral health conditions, Cognitive Behavioral...
Your Role in Addressing the Opioid Crisis
Opioid misuse has drastically increased in the U.S. since the late 1990s, resulting in a devastating public health impact on...
It’s Time for a Change in How We Design, Develop, Test and Disseminate Empirically Supported Treatments
There is nothing short of a changing of the guard occurring in the United States healthcare system, writ large, including the mental...
Mental health apps: The importance of evidence for publicly available apps
Search for “mental health”, “stress”, “depression” or “anxiety” on the iOS or Android app stores and you’re confronted with a...












