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Whole Psychiatry: Alternatives to Conventional Psychopharmacology with Robert Hedaya

Meds: Myths and Realities: NP0035 – Session 4

Is psychopharmacology is a 'go-to' in your practice? Join Robert Hedaya as he discusses how to treat the bodily systems that underlay many mental health issues while avoiding medication. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.

Treating the Mixed-Agenda Couple

Bill Doherty On An Approach For Unaligned Relationships

Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?

Tough CustomersBy Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people!

Does This Kid Need Medication? with Ron Taffel

Meds: Myths and Realities: NP0035 – Session 3

Do you feel like you could be a more effective therapist with your younger clients? Do you find it hard to determine when interventions--psychological and pharmacological--might be needed? Join Ron Taffel and learn to identify key diagnostic signs that indicate medications could be helpful when dealing with depression, anxiety, AD/HD, and affective disorders. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.

You Don’t Have To Choose

Casey Truffo On Doing The Work You Love And Making It Pay

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NP007 The Road to Clinical Excellence

This blog focuses on discussion regarding the course NP007 The Road to Clinical Excellence.
 
 

  • ↑ 0 ↓ avatar Merrilee Gibson 08.17.2011 12:21
    Appreciated information in William Pinsof’s presentation. Very informative, quite clearly presented, perhaps a glimpse of the future of psychotherapy. I will visit this website, seek out the recommended articles, gain more information.

    Pinsof says this is his life’s work, and I do respect his commitment and the very impressive work that is being done and envisioned.

    This is now the sixth of these sessions. I as a clinician have listened with interest to all presenters. I have some concerns. It seems that each presenter has a system that they are committed to, and that works very well for them. So, if the wave of the future is in these systems, who decides which system to use? Or, how do the different systems become compatible? Each presenter has stated that they feel the use of their particular system has made them a better therapist, and I believe them.

    Therapists are an independent and contrary lot (I know this because I am one). We are seeing visions of the future of psychotherapy. Fascinating, challenging. Who decides which vision to use? What about those who are not systems people, the dedicated individualists, Rogers-style therapists, for instance, who rely on the development of their empathy and intuition and work from a place of respect for each and every individual? Are we to be left in the dust? Just asking.

    I do very much appreciate this information, and will delve further into these new and challenging areas. I do greatly respect each presenter, and value their commitment and willingness to share. Thank you all, and the Psychotherapy Networker for these presentations.
    Merrilee Nolan Gibson, MA, LMFT
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  • Not available avatar Joy Lang, MSW, RSW 08.21.2011 11:31
    What a facinating presentation today. Of all of the models presented in this webinar, this sounds like the method of feedback would be most useful to my practice. I appreciated how the information obtained is used in the clinical sessions with the clients, asking them to explain their thoughts about why the scores are what they are. I can imagine using that with my clients in a way some of the others are harder to picture.

    Thanks again for the whole webinar and the pursuit towards clinical excellence. There has been a lot of food for thought.

    Joy Lang, MSW, RSW
    Waterloo, ON Canada
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  • Not available avatar Julie 08.22.2011 18:59
    I was really glad to hear of a feedback instrument including the FOO and partner scales. And reassured to hear Dr. Pinsof indicate that sometimes one spouse decreasing on the scale can actually be positive when it is connected to increased awareness and sensitivity to the other spouse's reality. It has been my impression that the other webinars have indicated that the scales should be improving each and every session.

    Julie
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