May 1, 2023
By Brian L. Thompson, PhD, coauthor of ACT-Informed Exposure for Anxiety Safety behaviors are behaviors people engage in to prevent or minimize either something bad happening or to manage their… READ MORE
April 27, 2021
By Suzanne Mouton-Odum, PhD Have you ever been working with a child and you are doing the appropriate evidence-based intervention, but progress is slow or nonexistent? Consider that the child… READ MORE
July 28, 2020
By Howard Kassinove, PhD, ABPP, and Raymond Chip Tafrate, PhD Part three of a four-part series on anger The secret to helping clients develop better reactions to unpleasant, unwanted, and… READ MORE
May 11, 2020
By Ben Sedley, PhD and Lisa Coyne, PhD, coauthors of Stuff That’s Loud The alarms went off; the bank had been robbed. The police came running to the scene, and were… READ MORE
August 14, 2018
By Gillian Wilson, MA, and Martin M. Antony, PhD, ABPP Exposure therapy is a highly effective psychological treatment for a wide range of anxiety and related disorders. However, exposure therapy tends to… READ MORE
December 14, 2017
By Martin M. Antony, PhD, and Heather Hood, PhD Although exposure-based treatments can be highly effective for helping clients overcome problems with anxiety, you can enhance treatment outcomes by paying… READ MORE
March 17, 2017
By Matthew McKay, Publisher and co-founder of New Harbinger Publications Couples therapy is a big business. But it isn’t always effective. Only about 50% of partners view their couples work… READ MORE
February 28, 2017
By Sheila Achar Josephs, PhD While exposure therapy has shown remarkable results for decreasing anxiety, clinicians often find it difficult to motivate teens to do challenging exposures. The benefits of continued… READ MORE
January 30, 2017
Clients may become anxious and experience other somatic symptoms (e.g., rapid breathing and sweating) when discussing events they perceive as threatening. Remember that this is the basic fight or flight… READ MORE
Why Journaling Is Especially Helpful to Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
April 16, 2024
