Blog posts with the tag "Review"

Staff Perspective: Choosing Your Words Carefully - APA’s Updated Inclusive Language Guide is an Important Resource for Psychologists

Dr. Jenny Phillips

The American Psychological Association (APA) recently released their updated Inclusive Language Guide (2nd ed.). The publication supports APA’s efforts to support and facilitate equity, diversity, and inclusion across the field of psychology and is an important resource for all psychologists. This blog provides a brief overview of the types of information presented in the guide and its usefulness in both clinical and non-clinical settings.

Staff Perspective: Resources to Discover Resilience-building Apps for Military-Connected Clients

Dr. Jenny Phillips

Mobile applications to support resilience-building have been an option for providers for more than a decade. But it can be difficult to know which apps best fit your client population and their goals. This blog summarizes and links three recent review articles that provide information about the functionality and effectiveness of resiliency-building apps for military-connected populations.

Staff Perspective: The Impact of Stigma on Mental Health Seeking in People of Color

Although individuals from minority populations in the U.S. experience mental illness at similar rates as white individuals, symptoms are potentially more long-lasting and disabling among minority groups due to a variety of factors. Part of this may be due to difficulty obtaining appropriate mental health care in a timely way. Primarily, the broad context of systemic racism and social barriers that members of minority groups face play a role. 

Staff Perspective: Article Review - Screening for Suicide Risk in Adult Sleep Patients

This article provides rationale for utilizing a suicide screening procedure in a sleep medicine setting and offers suggested elements for such screening. The authors note that the connection between sleep problems and suicide risk has become well established, although the mechanisms of this relationship are not yet clear. Even though research on the relationship between sleep problems and suicide is not new (these authors note that the relationship was known nearly sixty years ago!), an increase in the amount and specificity of research examining sleep and suicide has been fairly recent and has led to the inclusion of sleep disturbance as both a risk factor and a warning sign for suicide risk.

Staff Perspective: Written Exposure Therapy (WET) - Does It Work?

Have you heard about Written Exposure Therapy (WET) yet? It’s a newer evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) for PTSD, recently added as a first line, trauma-focused treatment in the latest VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines. Last year I took the WET training taught by Dr. Brian Marx, one of the treatment originators. I must admit, I was skeptical about how it worked and whether it would be effective. Since the training, I have used it with 2 patients and now feel comfortable adding it to my PTSD toolbox.

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