Clinical Psychology Review

This article is titled Towards an Understanding of Readiness for Trauma-Focused Therapy in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a Conceptual Integration of Empirical Data and Theoretical Constructs.

This was in Clinical Psychology Review from 2025.

And this is really one of the articles that I've come across that deals with what is readiness.

And particularly in my EMDR type work, where EMDR is an eight-phase protocol.

And financial hardship and mental health really are connected.

A 2020 systematic review in Clinical Psychology Review looks specifically at psychological factors involved in relationships between financial hardship and mental health.

Researchers found reoccurring roles for things like personal agency, self-esteem, and coping.

But there's an important caveat.

Human beings are absolutely more complicated than that.

What we can say is that financial hardship and mental health difficulties are meaningfully associated, and researchers are increasingly interested in understanding the mechanisms connecting them.

You can look this up in the clinical psychology review from Frankham, Richardson, and McGuire in 2020.

It's available on PubMed.