Conflict Mediation for Siblings
* Is Therapy Harmful? * The Unintended Consequences of Black-Labeling Antidepressants * A Depression Vaccine * Unexpected Resilience Among Adolescents ... Read more
The 4 Stages of Supervision
Establishing a Lasting Relationship with Your SuperviseeEffective clinical supervision requires an understanding of how supervisees develop and mature. Read more
Three Tenets of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Discovering Our Values by Confronting Our FearsLearning to accept our fears as guideposts to who we really want to be. Read more
Reliable Witness
What it Takes to be With Your Clients to the EndFew of us instinctively know what to do and say when families are confronting the death of a loved one. But we can start by being with them in the struggle. Read more
Winter Passage
Acknowledging Spirituality in Life's Final JourneyDrawing on spiritual resources can ease the pain and sorrow of death for client and therapist alike. Read more
Effective Clinical Supervision
A new paradigm for growing oldSupervision that works requires understanding of how supervisees develop and mature in their clinical practice. Read more
Caring for the Caregiver
6 TipsThose who care for ailing family members often are undertaking a marathon, not a sprint. Read more
Something For Nothing
Shoplifting, now a worldwide epidemic, is curiously neglected by the mental health field. Read more
The Last Word
The difficulties of summing up a lifetimeGrieving the departed will always elicit startling feelings and strange behaviors. It may be less about truth than about timing. Read more
Beyond Technophobia
Even you can use the internet to grow your practiceThe internet can be a phenomenal tool for marketing all types of practices in every part of the country. Even Luddites are finding that internet marketing can... Read more
The Ethical Eye
Don't Let "Risk Management" Undermine Your Professional ApproachThe best form of risk management for your practice may be doing what you think is right. Read more
Finding Flow
Embracing your worst can bring out your bestLearning to enhance performance by embracing doubt and fear. Read more
Crisis Land
A View From Inside A Behavioral Health TeamAttending to clients' mental health issues as part of a behavioral health team can be both stressful and exhilarating. Read more
Too Much Information
Field Notes from the Genetics FrontierAs genomic science is increasingly able to map our future, therapists must help families make difficult decisions. Read more
Positive Aging
A New Paradigm for Growing OldHow to continue to get the most out of life as you age. Read more
When Illness Moves In
Helping Couples Process the Trauma of SicknessThe phrase "in sickness and in health" is a hallowed part of our marriage vows for good reason. As human beings vulnerable to a wide variety of diseases and... Read more
Boundary Crossing
Balancing professional decorum with human compassionHow does a therapeutic alliance become more than that? Read more
Defining Psychotherapy
The Last 25 Years Have Taught Us That It's Neither Art nor ScienceAt last count, therapists could choose from among 500 different treatment techniques. But after all these years, there's still no evidence that the overall... Read more
The Teenager Who Was a Liar
Helping a family redefine its storyFacing the challenge of working with a dissembling adolescent in a blended family means changing the "official story" of the problem. Read more
Americocentricity
Babel and Borat force us to look beyond our cultureA new generation of filmmakers is taking us beyond the Americocentric world of mainstream cinema. Read more
Stairway to Heaven
Treating children in the crosshairs of traumaThe tragic confrontation at Waco, Texas, in 1993 taught us much about what to do to help traumatized children, and perhaps even more about what not to do. Read more
No Gurus Need Apply
A Disciplined Protocol for Troubled TeensA professor skeptical of the clinical value of family therapy may be doing more to extend the legacy of systems therapy than anyone working with adolescents... Read more
Creating a Culture of Healing
Recovering from Trauma in War-Ravaged GazaA psychiatrist who's worked in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Israel leads a team of healthcare professionals into war-ravaged Gaza to see if Western healing methods can... Read more
Avoiding Clinical Drift
Learning how to use CARE with your clientsCBT offers a clinical toolbox that ensures that treatment never becomes merely unfocused chitchat. Read more