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Shannon Wiltsey Stirman
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD Boston University School of Medicine, USA http://www.bumc.bu.edu/psychiatry/faculty-staff/ What does your research focus on? My research focuses on the implementation of evidence based practices in mental health.
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Psychologists Stress the Importance of Memory in Preventing Relapse after Therapy
Addictions, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder—such painful and harmful problems are recalcitrant to treatment. In the clinic, a person may suppress the association between the stimulus and the response—say, a bar with ashtrays and smoking—by learning
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45th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
The 45th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies will be held November 10-13, 2011 in Toronto, Canada. For more information visit: http://www.abct.org/Conv2011/
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Talk Therapy Lifts Severe Schizophrenics
The New York Times: People with severe schizophrenia who have been isolated, withdrawn and considered beyond help can learn to become more active, social and employable by engaging in a type of talk therapy that was
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How to Improve Your Life with Story Editing
Scientific American: People can change — but how? This is the central concern of “Redirect,” a new book by Timothy D. Wilson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Wilson offers a tour
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When the Melody Takes a Detour, the Science Begins
The New York Times: In the middle of a World Science Festival panel on Saturday night, the guitarist Pat Metheny took a sudden U-turn from the program he had planned. Instead of performing one of
