AI-powered mental health chatbots have the advantage of being easily accessible. However, users may overestimate their therapeutic benefits and underestimate their limitations.
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Dungeons and Dragons may soon be used be psychotherapists.
Gender-affirming care assesses psychological, social, medical and surgical options for gender-diverse people.
With therapy and social support, children and adults who experienced child sexual abuse can regain a sense of control over their lives.
The deeply flawed but intriguing Tony Soprano opened up a whole new world of complicated relatable characters that drew audiences in their millions.
Critics of the latest menopause guidelines say they could scare women away from using HRT.
One in seven Canadian veterans is living with PTSD. Developing a psychedelics research program for veterans should be a public health priority.
Clinical psychologist and professor Monnica Williams is on a mission to bring psychedelics to therapists’ offices to help people heal from their racial traumas. To do this, she’s jumping over some big hurdles.
Allowing people to consent to ‘conversion therapy’ would contradict UK and international law.
One treatment option for children’s trauma is eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, or EMDR. Here’s how it works and what the research says about its effectiveness.
Half a million new mothers in the US suffer from postpartum depression every year, yet a lack of awareness and stigma toward the condition keep many from getting the help they need.
‘Film therapy’ is a growing area of interest among experts.
Art and science combine in this engineering course to let students turn their brainwaves into creative works.
Combining psychotherapy with medication can lead to more immediate and enduring results by boosting the brain’s neuroplasticity.
Claims regarding on these apps’ effectiveness are often based on less than robust findings.
Scientists need safe spaces to understand and process “climate emotions”. Group therapy helps people find the strength and resilience to continue their important work, without harming their health.
You have probably heard of ‘fight or flight’ responses to distressing situations. You may also be familiar with the tendency to ‘freeze’. But there is another response a person can have: ‘fawn’.
Music therapy offers a flexible and accessible way of supporting wellbeing and addressing traumatic experiences.
Rural Canadians face challenges accessing mental health services, and an exodus of psychologists from the public system may make matters worse.
Resistance, like Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy, uses its main character – a therapist, Nina – as a vehicle for others’ stories.
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Assistant Professor (Clinical) of Occupational Therapy, Wayne State University
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Reader in Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling, University of Bolton
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Professor of the Psychology of Religion and Theology, Boston University
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Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy, University of South Wales
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Researcher in Enteric Neuroscience and Autism, RMIT University
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW & Black Dog Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, Lancaster University
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Endocrine Pharmacology, University of Exeter
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
