Structurally informed psychodynamic theory case conceptualization: Expanding the conceptualization map.

There is a rich history of psychological movements that call upon the field to collaborate with clients to both acknowledge and resist oppression, as well as an increasing emphasis in professional guidelines on conceptualizing clients with attention to the role of the social and physical environment, to contemporary experience with power, privilege, and oppression, and to institutional barriers and related disparities. These calls indicate the need for psychological case conceptualization to move beyond preconceived assessments of which aspects of clients' identities are salient to them, to engage with clients' sociocultural identities as situated within systems of power and oppression, and to engage in advocacy to improve clients' socioenvironmental contexts and to challenge structural oppression. In this article, we attend to the foundational contributions of Black psychology, intersectionality, liberation psychology, Indigenous healing, and radical healing for using case conceptualization to guide structurally responsive and impactful treatment and advocacy.

Applying the Multicultural Orientation in Cancer Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Cancer Survivors: A Cross-Sectional Correlational Study.

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) cancer survivors report unique needs that are not met by some providers. The multicultural orientation (MCO) holds promise for creating a paradigm shift in providing affirmative cancer care, yet has not been tested empirically. This study examines the predictive strength of MCO's tenets of cultural humility and cultural opportunities for SGM cancer patient-provider relationships.

Pathways by Which Self-Compassion Improves Positive Body Image: A Qualitative Analysis.

The current study applied consensual qualitative research-modified to essays written by 51 college women completing an expressive writing intervention over three time points for a total of 153 essays to identify how increases in self-compassion improve body image. A qualitative coding team tracked changes in affect and cognition over three time points. The results demonstrated that college women consistently expressed body acceptance and psychological flexibility.

Responding to distress in cancer care: Increasing access to psycho oncology services through integrated collaborative care.

Objective: Despite increased attention to the utility of collaborative care models for promoting whole-person care in cancer populations, there is a paucity of empirical research testing the impact of these care models on effectively identifying and serving highly distressed cancer patients. This study sought to experimentally test the effectiveness of a year-long collaborative care program on referral rates to psycho-oncology services for patients with moderate to high distress.

Methods: Data for this study consisted of 11,467 adult patients with cancer who were screened for psychosocial distress 6-months prior to, and following, the integrated collaborative care intervention.

Feasibility of a Loving Kindness Intervention for Mitigating Weight Stigma in Nursing Students: A Focus on Self-Compassion.

Objectives: Preliminary research on self-compassion as a target for reducing forms of bias is promising, yet healthcare provider self-compassion has not yet been explored in relationship to weight bias. Healthcare providers commonly endorse weight stigma and bias, contributing to health disparities for patients with "obesity." The current study explores the feasibility of the self-compassion loving kindness meditation (LKM) as a brief intervention that reduces weight bias in nursing students.

A Meta-Ethnography on the Impact of Cancer for Lesbian and Queer Women and Their Partners.

Lesbian and queer women face unique experiences navigating cancer care, including challenges in accessing services that incorporate their relational supports. Given the importance of social support for survivorship, this study examines the impact of cancer on lesbian/queer women in romantic relationships. We conducted the seven stages of Noblit and Hare's meta-ethnography.

Perspectives of postdoctoral fellows: A qualitative study of clinical supervision in psycho-oncology.

Given the prevalence and distress associated with a cancer diagnosis, the training of psycho-oncology providers to meet the mental health needs of cancer survivors warrants investigation. Clinical supervision is a key teaching strategy for psychology trainees, particularly during a postdoctoral fellowship when trainees are gaining specialized training and making important career decisions. This qualitative study examined how postdoctoral fellows in psycho-oncology used clinical supervision and the supervisory relationship for their personal and professional development.

Addressing health in psychotherapy: Future directions from a community wellness lens.

Building off insight provided by authors in this special section and in the broader literature, this closing article describes future directions in health in psychotherapy. We use the community wellness model (CWM; Prilleltensky, 2005) sites of personal, relational, and collective to highlight psychotherapy constructs that offer future directions for more fully embracing a community and social justice perspective in health in psychotherapy. Within each level, we describe implications for researchers and clinicians: the personal level focuses on individual psychotherapy, including theoretical orientation, interventions, and feedback-informed treatment; the relational level covers clinician-client dynamics and group psychotherapy; the collective level addresses the scope and innovation of our interventions as well as advocacy efforts.

Addressing health in psychotherapy from a community wellness framework: Introduction to the special section.

This introductory article to the special section on addressing health in psychotherapy offers the Community Wellness Model (CWM) as a useful framework for addressing illness in the context of therapy at the sites of personal, relational, and collective well-being. We provide information on the prevalence of health concerns in the general public and clients seeking psychotherapy, and how health psychology intervention research largely focuses on outcomes without attending to therapeutic processes. In this introductory article, we then highlight the nine articles that comprise the following two parts in the special section: (a) Identifying What is (Un)Known About Health in Psychotherapy and (b) Focus on Psychotherapy for Specific Health Conditions and Populations.

Addressing racial equity in health psychology research: An application of the multicultural orientation framework.

Health psychology research emphasizes biological and positivist methods, giving less attention to the multifaceted sociocultural and political forces at play in health processes and outcomes. In this article, we present a new sociostructural approach for working toward racial equity in health psychology research, consistent with public psychology goals. This new approach uses the multicultural orientation framework (MCO) to guide health psychologists to consider the sociocultural and political history of their work, systems of oppression and privilege embedded in health research, and a path toward using research to achieve social change, antiracism, and health equity.