Integrative Mental Health

Social Recovery Therapy shows promising results for individuals who experience first-episode psychosis.

Researchers develop an initial framework for understanding metatherapeutic communication practices that may inform future integration of collaboration in psychotherapy.

Qualitative research examines the experiences of psychoanalytic therapists in their work with patients whose symptoms either failed to improve or worsened.

“These interventions also have the potential to increase rumination and negative affect, and potentially self-harm repetition, by serving as unhelpful reminders of negative experiences in the lead-up to the index self-harm event or during hospital treatment.”

Attempting to locate the mechanisms of psychiatric disorder is a step in the wrong direction and fails to challenge potentially unjust social practices.

A new study, published this week in BMJ, found no major differences in the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and antidepressants. When the researchers compared previous studies, they found no major differences in relapse rates or level of treatment response between those taking antidepressants and those undergoing CBT.

Researchers explore efforts to integrate educational psychology and child psychiatry.

Psychologists and people with experience of psychotic symptoms publish a report on new ways of understanding psychosis.

While an estimated 74-percent of patients diagnosed with major depression receive a prescription for an antidepressant, new research reveals that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)...

How does social network site use influence well-being? Researchers suggest this depends on the extent to which site use is “connection-promoting."

Report presents new body-based therapeutic approach for shock and complex developmental trauma.

The American Psychological Association (APA) recently published a study finding that patients assigned to drug-only treatments were more likely to refuse treatment, and more likely to drop out before treatment completion, than patients assigned to psychotherapy only.

Study suggests that clinicians believe that rewards outweigh risks for using e-mental health resources in therapy.

Psychology can only deal with racial health disparities effectively by incorporating critical race theory and intervening at a structural level.

A new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial has found bright light therapy to be a powerful intervention that could provide an alternative to medication for people with “bipolar depression.”

Jürgen Margraf and Silvia Schneider, both well-known psychologists at the University of Bochum in Germany, claim that psychotropic drugs are no solution to mental...

Writing in The Guardian, Oliver Burkeman discusses the comeback of Freud’s psychoanalysis, along with humanistic therapy, interpersonal therapy, transpersonal therapy, and transactional analysis and...

Coordinated care with employment support and family therapy leads to superior outcomes for those diagnosed with psychotic disorders.

Current suicide assessment practices of the VA are reductive and do not allow for the individual’s narrative to be heard.

From The New York Times: Clinicians have long known that sleep schedules and levels of exposure to sunlight can have a significant impact on...

Meta-analysis of antidepressant tapering finds CBT and MBCT can aid in tapering, but limited studies met inclusion criteria.

New study finds children who have been exposed to discrimination show higher likelihood of anxiety, depression, and ADHD.

Researchers find that yoga and controlled breathing reduced symptoms in individuals diagnosed with depression.

Pilot study finds school-based humanistic counseling reduces emotional symptoms in students.

According to Lifshitz and Thompson, mindfulness is best understood as “complex orchestration of cognitive skills embodied in a particular social context.”