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How Faith Can Affect Therapy
The New York Times: Can belief in God predict how someone responds to mental health treatment? A recent study suggests it might. Researchers at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., enrolled 159 men and women in
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Beyond the Guild
Despite the recent national focus on increased access to health care, 55 percent of counties in the United States still have no practicing psychiatrists, psychologists, or social workers. It is clear from such arresting statistics
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New Guidelines for Training in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology
The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT) recently sponsored an Inter-organizational Task Force on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology Doctoral Education to develop guidelines and statements of best practices for integrated education and training in
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Damned Spot: Guilt, Scrubbing, and More Guilt
Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most complex characters, and by far the bard’s most obsessive. Immorally ambitious, she prods her husband to murder Scotland’s king, and then deludes herself into believing that “a little
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Ruchika Prakash
The Ohio State University http://freud.psy.ohio-state.edu/lab/CNL/The_Lab.html What does your research focus on? I am involved in several lines of research, all of which are aimed at examining the effects of lifestyle factors on facets of emotional
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Kazdin Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Alan E. Kazdin was awarded the 2012 Career/Lifetime Achievement Award at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 46th Annual Convention in November. Kazdin, who is John M. Musser Professor of Psychology at Yale