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The field of trauma therapy has developed rapidly in the last 25 years, profoundly altering our understanding of post-traumatic responses with profound clinical implications for how we can best serve our clients...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
We've all been told that the new brain science can give us a powerful new way of understanding our clients, but it's still not clear to many of us what we're supposed to do with this knowledge once we get it...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Clients with borderline issues, trauma survivors, and others with chronic problems often leave their therapists feeling paralyzed and ineffective--no matter how hard you huff and they puff, you can't blow the problem down...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Sometime over the past two decades, society's response to survivors of sexual abuse changed from "You're deluded" to "You're damaged"...
CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29
The way we think about and practice psychotherapy is being transformed by an unprecedented convergence of new scientific findings and ancient healing traditions...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
In the mass media, love is typically dished up as an endless celebration of brand new, gloriously uncomplicated ardor. But the fact is that most of us are pitifully unprepared for life after infatuation...
CE Credits: 4 • Price: $49
The dirty little secret in our field is that couples work may be the hardest form of therapy...
CE Credits: 4 • Price: $49
Even today many therapists tip-toe around the subject of infidelity...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Since the days of Freud, our consulting rooms have been a place designated for straight talk about sexuality, where, presumably, psychological enlightenment could be counted on to prevail over the dark forces of repression...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Every therapist who works with couples inevitably works with sexual issues...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Almost all our assumptions and expectations about teens today are outdated - from our ideas about the age of onset of adolescence and how peer pressure works to our understanding of how kids experience anxiety and the role parents should play in providing effective guidance...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Adolescents rarely come to therapy of their own choice and often don't care to talk about their problems with adults...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
The therapy profession has been enthralled with the power of words as the one legitimate way of helping our clients improve...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Secrets can be like ghosts haunting a family, a veiled threat that can't quite be seen or confronted...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
The ethical guidelines for therapists were once governed by simple, direct, utterly unambiguous rules...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
When it comes to depression, new theories, therapies, and medicines appear so rapidly that it's impossible for even the most diligent therapist to keep track of it all...
CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29
In an America shaken by terror, almost anybody can be subject to intrusive thoughts, agitation, chronic apprehension, and panic attacks once regarded almost exclusively as symptoms of full-blown anxiety disorders...
CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29
For years, the Networker's "In Consultation" column has been a source of invaluable practical wisdom about dealing with the challenges of everyday practice...
CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29
In this unusual Reading Course, six noted clinicians examine the question of what happens when a client challenges the therapist's core assumptions about change and forces him or her to step out of their personal and professional comfort zone...
CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29
Research seems to show again and again that the main ingredient of effective treatment has little to do with therapeutic technique...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Family therapy was launched by a collection of charismatic figures who combined clinical skill with the intellectual daring to bring systems thinking into the consulting room...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Following the first generation of pioneers, another group of inspired clinicians and innovators emerged to expand the vocabulary and scope of family therapy...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Sure, therapy hinges on the client-therapist relationship, but there's more to it than our textbook theories tell us...
CE Credits: 2 • Price $29
In America, almost everybody has peculiar eating habits, and almost everybody exhibits some little or not-so-little food excesses and fetishes...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
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