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Forensic Psychology
How to Better Serve Young Adult Offenders

Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates on October 14, 2024

Can correctional rehabilitation truly redirect a young adult from a life of crime? Here's why interventions targeted to their developmental level could change the course of their future.

Can correctional rehabilitation truly redirect a young adult from a life of crime? Here's why interventions targeted to their developmental level could change the course of their future.

Suicide
Gun Control vs. Gun Safety as Suicide Prevention

Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates on July 8, 2024

Gun control measures are expensive and socio-politically challenging. Psychologists can use the Golden Gate Bridge safety net as a more attainable model of suicide prevention.

Gun control measures are expensive and socio-politically challenging. Psychologists can use the Golden Gate Bridge safety net as a more attainable model of suicide prevention.

Bias
Who Are Mental Health Services Made For?

Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates on June 28, 2024

Psychologists have long reckoned with the Whiteness of most evidence-based treatments. How might similar issues impact digital mental health interventions?

Psychologists have long reckoned with the Whiteness of most evidence-based treatments. How might similar issues impact digital mental health interventions?

Online Therapy
Remote Therapy in a Post-COVID World

Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates on May 28, 2024

As remote services become part of the new normal in psychotherapy, what can providers do to ensure that the quality of remote sessions matches the quality of in-person sessions?

As remote services become part of the new normal in psychotherapy, what can providers do to ensure that the quality of remote sessions matches the quality of in-person sessions?

Online Therapy
Is App-Based Therapy "Real" Therapy?

Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates on May 6, 2024

The recent explosion of online mental health services accessible from our computers and phones has brought to light a very important question: What makes therapy, therapy? 

The recent explosion of online mental health services accessible from our computers and phones has brought to light a very important question: What makes therapy, therapy? 

Bias
The Problem of SES in Psychology

Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates on March 18, 2024

SES conceptualizes people as atomized individuals, ignores their common structural positions, and removes socioeconomic privilege from the social relations that produce it.

SES conceptualizes people as atomized individuals, ignores their common structural positions, and removes socioeconomic privilege from the social relations that produce it.