2021 • August

The United States’ maternal mortality rates, in 2018, were 17.4 deaths per 100,000 births, the highest among developed countries (CDC, 2018; Tikkanen et al., 2020). Addressing these alarming rates, the CDC launched the Hear Her Campaign, which aims to save mothers’ lives by 1) raising awareness of warning signs and the potential for illness/loss of life, […]

Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, Ph.D. – Winner of the APF/Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Early Career Award Prof. Lorenzo-Luaces completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Puerto Rico (2011) and hnska Duarté-Vélez. He completed his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania (2017), where he worked with Dr. Robert DeRubeis studying predictors and processes of therapies […]

The Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy is pleased to share our calls for awards for the 2021 year. Please see below and be sure to check out our full listing of awards and grants here: https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/members/awards/ Distinguished Psychologist Award DESCRIPTION The APA Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (APA Division 29) invites nominations for […]

Claiming the lives of over 48,000 Americans per year, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States (CDC, 2018).  This number alone may present as shocking to many; however, this number only depicts the amount of deaths due to suicide.  It does not take into account the estimated 1.4 million suicide […]

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between alliance measures and improvement on the outcome measure for clients in longer term treatment (six to 20 sessions). This is the second of a two part series. The first article (Mahon et al., 2021) explored the relationship between alliance scores and improvement on the […]