CEDAR Clinic

08/21/2026

What makes ACT different from traditional approaches to psychotherapy for psychosis? -

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers a different way of thinking about treatment—shifting the focus from trying to eliminate difficult thoughts, feelings, or symptoms toward helping people build meaningful lives while learning new ways to relate to these experiences.

07/31/2026

ACT for Early Psychosis: Interactive Clinical Consultation Series -

There is a growing body of evidence supporting mindfulness-based approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), for young people experiencing early psychosis or who are at clinical high risk (CHR-P) for psychosis.

03/10/2022

https://continuingeducationprogram.org/courses/3rd-annual-virtual-conference-advances-in-mindfulness-and-acceptance-based-clinical-tools-for-treating-adolescents-and-young-adults/

This one-day virtual symposium brings together experts to provide state of the art updates on evidence-based mindfulness and acceptance approaches to improving lives of adolescents and young adults struggling with a broad array of obstacles to living a rich, full and meaningful life. The symposium i...

04/23/2021

04/23/2021

Join us on 4/30/21 for the BIDMC Dept of Psychiatry Institute for Evidence Based Training for our 2nd Annual Virtual Conference: Advances in Mindfulness and Acceptance Based Clinical Tools for Treating Adolescents and Young Adults

This one-day virtual symposium brings together experts to provide state of the art updates on evidence-based mindfulness and acceptance approaches to improving lives of adolescents and young adults struggling with a broad array of obstacles to living a rich, full and meaningful life. The symposium i...

04/15/2021

Check out our latest CEDAR Clinic Brief on Interventions for Youth at Risk for Psychosis

03/27/2019

Cecilia McGough puts a face to schizophrenia and helps empower college students through her non-profit Students With Schizophrenia

Cecilia McGough puts a face to schizophrenia and helps empower college students through the upcoming non-profit Students With Schizophrenia. Students With Sc...

03/01/2019

An interesting study from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation:

A multi-decade study focusing on children of parents diagnosed with bipolar disorder quantifies the risk—24.5%—that they themselves will develop bipolar illness, and suggests a “progressive sequence” in which the illness typically unfolds between the ages of 12 and 30.

09/07/2018

Check out this great event that our staff has planned coming up in October!

Early Intervention Clinical/Research Partnerships with People with Lived Experience People with lived experience of mental illness have much to teach early intervention teams and researchers but their integration into these teams remains rare. The Broad Institute has generously sponsored an evening....

08/07/2018

The conversation on mental illness is growing, which is great! But we consistently fall short on representing mental illnesses that aren't anxiety or depression related. It's up to us to bridge the gap.

The public discussion about mental health has become too focused on moderate illnesses.