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Displaying items by tag: Personal & Professional Development
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
At its best, therapy is a deeply creative art, rooted in the healing quality of imagination, hope, risk, and wonder...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Positive psychology is an attempt to give us a science of happiness grounded in a growing body of systematic research that reveals how to live a happier, more meaningful life...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Probably all of us can think of at least one clinical role model or leading figure in the field who shaped our vision of the kind of therapist we wanted to be when we “grew up”...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
According to the standard wisdom, the greatest therapists—the “supershrinks”—are born not made...
CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29
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