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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.Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?
By 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.
 MC0003 Beyond Pills: Effective Psychotherapy with Depressive ClientsThis blog focuses on discussion regarding the course MC0003 Beyond Pills: Effective Psychotherapy with Depressive Clients MC0003, Beyond Pills, Michael YapkoWelcome to this intensive Master Class series, “Beyond Pills: Effective Psychotherapy with Depressive Clients.” This popular, illuminating series features internationally recognized expert, Michael Yapko, known for his work in the strategic treatment of depression. Throughout the series, you’ll learn about the latest, significant research in effectively helping depressed clients—without antidepressant medications.
12.08.2011 Posted In: MC0003 Beyond Pills: Effective Psychotherapy with Depressive Clients By Psychotherapy Networker
These four sessions will cover such topics as why medicalizing depression has worsened the problem, reasons to be cautious about antidepressants, using hypnosis, mindfulness, and homework as part of experiential treatment, social factors as related to depression, and much more. In the second session, you’ll be able to watch this kind of treatment in action, with a video clip of Mike, a depressed and anxious client. The fourth session includes a question-and-answer session with Yapko to allow you to further incorporate this knowledge into practice. Throughout this series, this Comment Board will be available as a way for you all to share thoughts and reflections about what was most thought-provoking and to ask questions of the presenter and of each other. We invite and encourage you to use this Comment Board as a forum for learning. Between sessions, please just take a few minutes to share what you think. What did you think was most interesting or relevant? What questions do you have? Thank you so much for your participation, and welcome to this relevant and important series. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org. Comments  |
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Congratulation for this session. This is a great way to learn!
Mauro Barachetti
My question is: what would be a useful suggestion to someone who is happy to be an over-achiever with a low boredom threshold, who consistently takes on 'too many diverse projects' and then finds themselves regularly dissociated from their motivational energy, 'forgetting' why they want to achieve whatever it is that they have previously committed to? Previously I have suggested focusing on one thing at a time, dropping tasks and relationships that are not useful, practice of gratitude, taking 'baby' steps, self appreciation of achievements. All these seem to have worked to some extent. Maybe this person just needs to accept that 'life is one damn thing after another'?
I choose to serve as a client's helpful assistant during their work toward their needed/wanted/chosen goals.