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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.
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Because some of my DID clients are artists/writers, I have had to grapple with the dilemma of clients wanting to give me gifts of their work. When I began my career as a therapist several decades ago, I maintained an absolute boundary of not accepting any gifts and, of course, explaining the ethics of why and discussing clients feelings and thoughts about themselves about this.
Over the years, my thinking about gifts has changed. It has been therapeutic for clients to discover why it feels important to them to give me a gift. Is it a re-enactment from the past? One common response is to feel special. I've tried different approaches like creating a rock garden in my office where clients can add a rock they found to the collection.
I continue to struggle with this dilemma, however. It would be helpful to me to hear how other clinicians handle gifts.