A concise clinical newsletter for licensed therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and trainees. Field news, research summaries, tough conversation scripts, and clinical updates — three times a week, written by clinicians.
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Every issue is reviewed by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist before publication. Cited claims are checked against primary sources, not press releases.
We summarize research from journals — JAMA Psychiatry, The Lancet Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology Review, and others — and link every paper we cite.
No paywall, no pharma sponsorship, no AI-generated content. The newsletter is funded by a small set of clearly-disclosed partners — listed in every issue.
Each brief follows a familiar template — though the mix shifts week to week depending on what's happening in the field. A typical issue contains five recurring sections, each designed to be read in under a minute.
Guideline revisions, regulatory shifts, diagnostic changes, workforce news — curated for clinical practice. Each story includes context for your work, not just what happened.
A recent paper from the journals that matter — design, findings, limitations, and what it changes about how you work. Strength of evidence rated openly so you can weigh it.
Each script walks through a clinical situation that doesn't yield to textbook phrasing: a client pushing for a modality you're not trained in; a parent fishing for a diagnosis; a client testing your limits in real time. We give you what to skip, what to say, and the caveat to hold while saying it.
A weekly check-in on the dilemmas that don't appear in CE courses — referral norms, fee policies, training decisions, how peers are handling the edge cases. Results posted the following issue.
Curated webinars and live trainings with CE credit — sortable by hours, modality, and audience. We list what we'd attend, not what advertisers wish us to.
The template varies. Some issues lean research-heavy; others lead with a script or a polling question. The constant is brevity — and the rubrics above, which tell you at a glance what you're getting.
RCTs, meta-analyses, and clinical reviews from the journals that matter — summarized for the practitioner, not the press.
CBT, ACT, DBT, EMDR, IFS, psychodynamic, and integrative approaches — refined breakdowns of what's working and where.
New approvals, dosing guidance, drug–drug interactions, and what to know before your next prescribing or referral conversation.
Diagnostic refinements, screening instruments, and the subtle distinctions that matter — DSM-5-TR, ICD-11, and beyond.
Confidentiality, dual relationships, mandated reporting, supervision questions, and the cases that don't appear in textbooks.
Caseload, countertransference, burnout in clinicians, supervision, peer consultation. The work behind the work.
Every brief uses a set of short, repeated frames that tell you at a glance what kind of information you're looking at — and what to do with it. Here are the three you'll see most.
For a recent story on a renamed diagnosis:
From a recent paper on an ultra-short BPD screener:
When a client asks for a modality you're not trained in:
Clinicians have every right to ask where a recommendation comes from. Here's how we work — and what we promise not to do.
"The Research Brief saves me hours. I used to scan four journals on Sunday night to stay current. Now I read one email."
"The conversation scripts are the part I look forward to most. Don't Say / Do Say sounds simple — but it's the most useful thing in my inbox most weeks."
"As a psychiatry resident, the brief is how I keep up with literature outside my rotation. Every issue has at least one thing I bring to supervision."
"The Quick Poll is oddly addictive. Seeing how 10,000 other clinicians are handling the same dilemma I'm sitting with — genuinely useful, and a little reassuring."
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