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R130: The Decision to Divorce

CE Credits: 4
Price: $49

Authors: William Doherty, Barry McCarthy, Jerome Price, Jay Lebow, Rob Waters, Maria Isaacs, Laura Markowitz

The most critical life decision most therapists deal with in their everyday practice is helping couples decide whether to dissolve a marriage or try to save it...

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R129: Therapeutic Perspectives on Aging

CE Credits: 5
Price: $59

Authors: Terry Hargrave, Michael Ventura, Walter Lowe, Richard Simon, Jay Lebow, Barry Jacobs, Marian Sandmaier

Aging triggers identity issues as powerful as those of adolescence, at a time when we're also coping with critical life-cycle changes, such as our children leaving home, our parents getting ill or dying, physical and financial worries, and retirement...

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R127: The Mindful Therapist

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: Mary Sykes Wylie, Richard Simon, Christopher Germer, Lorne Ladner, Jay Lebow, Michael Ventura

A decade ago, if therapists were familiar with mindfulness at all, it was as a spiritual practice with little connection to clinical work...

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R126: The Science of Happiness: Perspectives on Positive Psychology

CE Credits: 5
Price: $59

Authors: Richard Handler, Mary Wylie, Katy Butler, Paul Pearsall, Richard Simon

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...

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R125: Creativity in the Consulting Room

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: David Waters, Jay Efran, Mary Wylie, Michael Ventura, Richard Simon, Mitchell Greene, Brad Sachs

At its best, therapy is a deeply creative art, rooted in the healing quality of imagination, hope, risk, and wonder...

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R124: Food Angst in the Consulting Room

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: Mary Sykes Wylie, Barbara McFarland, Stephen Madigan, Laura Fraser

In America, almost everybody has peculiar eating habits, and almost everybody exhibits some little or not-so-little food excesses and fetishes...

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R123: The Secret Lives of Clients

CE Credits: 2
Fee: Regular Price $24
Online Member Discount $20

Author: Marian Sandmaier, Michelle Cacho-Negrete, Stephen Lyons, David Guy

Sure, therapy hinges on the client-therapist relationship, but there's more to it than our textbook theories tell us...

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R122: Masters of Family Therapy, Part 2

CE Credits: 5
Price: $59

Interviewees: Mara Selvini-Palazzoli, Cloe Madanes, the Women's Project, Michael White, Richard Simon, Mary Sykes Wylie, Mary Pipher

Following the first generation of pioneers, another group of inspired clinicians and innovators emerged to expand the vocabulary and scope of family therapy...

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R121: Masters of Family Therapy, Part 1

CE Credits: 3
Fee: Regular Price $37

Interviewees: Salvador Minuchin, Virginia Satir, Murray Bowen, Carl Whitaker, Jay Haley, Richard Simon, Mary Sykes Wylie

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...

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R120: The Therapeutic Virtues: What Makes a Good Therapist Good?

CE Credits: 3
Fee: Regular Price $37

Authors: Betty Carter, Molly Layton, Frank Pittman, Ken Hardy, William Doherty, Ron Taffel

Research seems to show again and again that the main ingredient of effective treatment has little to do with therapeutic technique...

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R119: Out of the Comfort Zone: My Most Challenging Case

CE Credits: 2
Price: $25

Authors: Mary Pipher, Cloe Madanes, Frank Pittman, David Treadway, Martha Straus, Lascelles Black

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...

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R118: Tools of the Trade: Handling Everyday Issues in Therapy

CE Credits: 2
Price: $25

Authors: Bill O'Hanlon, Danie Beaulieu, Jon Carlson, Steven Stosny, Patrick Doherty, Reid Wilson, Lynne Stevens, Mike Nichols, Lorne Ladner

For years, the Networker's "In Consultation" column has been a source of invaluable practical wisdom about dealing with the challenges of everyday practice...

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R117: Treating the Anxious Client

CE Credits: 2
Price: $25

Authors: Reid Wilson, Margaret Wehrenberg, Miriam Greenspan, Bruce Ecker

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...

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R116: Treating Depression: It Takes More than a Pill

CE Credits: 2
Price: $25

Authors: Michael Yapko, Margaret Wehrenberg, Peggy Papp, Bruce Ecker, Laurel Hulley

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...

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R115: Shhh! The Ethical Dilemmas No One Talks About

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: Mary Jo Barrett, Arnold Lazarus, Jay Efran, Michael Hoyt, Linda Stone Fish, Susan Rowan, Jan Michael Sherman, Jenny Newsome, Ofer Zur, and Janina Fisher

The ethical guidelines for therapists were once governed by simple, direct, utterly unambiguous rules...

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R114: Unlocking Secrets in Therapy

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: Evan Imber-Black, Frank Pittman, Emily Brown, Michele Martin

Secrets can be like ghosts haunting a family, a veiled threat that can't quite be seen or confronted...

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R113: The Body in Psychotherapy

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: Mary Sykes Wylie, Christine Caldwell, Rob Fisher, Ilana Rubenfeld, Richard Simon, Barbara Goodrich-Dunn

The therapy profession has been enthralled with the power of words as the one legitimate way of helping our clients improve...

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R112: Working with Reluctant Adolescents

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: William Doherty, Janet Edgette, Jerome Price, Ken Hardy, Matthew Selekman

Adolescents rarely come to therapy of their own choice and often don't care to talk about their problems with adults...

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R111: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescent

CE Credits: 5
Price: $59

Author: Ron Taffel

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...

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R110: Treating Sexual Issues in Psychotherapy

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: David Schnarch, Michele Weiner-Davis, Barry McCarthy, Richard Schwartz, Katy Butler

Every therapist who works with couples inevitably works with sexual issues...

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R109: Rediscovering Pleasure: Eroticism and Couplehood

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: Esther Perel, David Schnarch, Katy Butler

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...

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R108: The Crisis of Infidelity

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: Frank Pittman, Emily Brown, Shirley Glass, Don-David Lusterman, Leo Fay

Even today many therapists tip-toe around the subject of infidelity...

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R107: The Cutting Edge of Couples Therapy

CE Credits: 4
Price: $49

Authors: William Doherty, Terry Real, Gay Hendricks, Michele Weiner-Davis, Marian Sandmaier

The dirty little secret in our field is that couples work may be the hardest form of therapy...

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R106: The Art of Intimacy: Understanding the Couple's Bond

CE Credits: 4
Price: $49

Authors: Susan Johnson, Pat Love, Richard Schwartz, Michael Ventura, Laura Markowitz

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...

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R105: Beyond Psychology: Expanding Our Models of Consciousness and Change

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: Walter Truett Anderson, Richard Schwartz, Douglas Flemons, Mary Sykes Wylie

The way we think about and practice psychotherapy is being transformed by an unprecedented convergence of new scientific findings and ancient healing traditions...

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R104: Beyond Victimhood: Working with Adult Survivors

CE Credits: 4
Price: $49

Authors: Dusty Miller, Laura Davis, Mary Jo Barrett, Richard Schwartz, Mary Sykes Wylie

Sometime over the past two decades, society's response to survivors of sexual abuse changed from "You're deluded" to "You're damaged..."

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R103: Treating the Difficult Client

CE Credits: 4
Price $49

Authors: Bill O'Hanlon, Yvonne Dolan, Douglas Flemons, Barry Duncan, Katy Butler

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...

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R102: Getting Comfortable with the Brain

CE Credits: 4
Fee: Regular Price $49

Authors: Daniel Siegel, Mary Sykes Wylie, Brent Atkinson, Babette Rothschild

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...

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R101 The Frontiers of Trauma Treatment

CE Credits: 3
Price $37

Authors: Bessel van der Kolk, Mary Sykes Wylie, Babette Rothschild, Janice Goldfein

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...

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R131: Facing the Challenge of Mid-Life

CE Credits: 2
Price: $27

Authors: Marian Sandmaier, Lynn Bruner, Ken Sharp, Patrick Dougherty

As therapists, we often see middle-aged clients who feel a restless sense of regret that they’ve never really followed their dreams or fully lived their lives and our job is to help them explore unlived possibilities within themselves...

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R142: The New Face of America: Perspectives on the Immigrant Debate

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: Michael Ventura, Priska Imberti, Tazuko Sibusawa

While the recent election was a victory for multiculturalism, ongoing bitter debates about immigration reveal that, even in our “enlightened” society, ethnic and national divisions can still evoke the raw and malign power of nativism...

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R141: Exploring Our Need for Sleep

CE Credits: 3
Price: $37

Authors: Mary Sykes Wylie, Rubin Naiman, Margaret Wehrenberg et al.

Probably most of your clients have had at least some difficulty with insomnia as, most likely, have you...

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R140: Mindfulness and the Art of Relationship

CE Credits: 2
Price: $25

Authors: Jerome Front, Molly Layton, David Treadway, Zindel Segal

From its very beginnings, therapy has almost always consisted primarily of talk, evolving from slow, ruminative talk during the heyday of psychodynamic practice to the faster-paced, therapist-directed, make-it-happen talk required in the 6 to 10 sessions that are now the norm...

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R138: Lessons in Long-Term Caring

CE Credits: 2
Price: $25

Authors: Katy Butler, Barry Jacobs, David Seaburn, Robert Hill, Barry Jacobs

There aren’t many issues that strain the fabric of marriage or family life as much as the chronic or terminal illness of an elderly parent or spouse...

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R137: Psychology and Healthcare

CE Credits: 4
Price: $49

Authors: William Doherty, Tai Mendenhall, Susan McDaniel, Jeri Hepworth

For much of our profession’s history, we’ve imagined--in spite of the increased use of medications for psychiatric problems--that we still take care of people’s minds, while others take care of their bodies...

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R132: Therapy with 21st-Century Teens

CE Credits: 8
Price: $89

Authors: Ron Taffel, Mary Sykes Wylie, Adam Cox, Martha Straus, David Seaburn, Lawrence Diller, Mathew Selekman, Victor Shklyarevsky, Kimball Magoni, Janet Sasson Edgette, Terry Hargrave

Doing therapy with teens has always been a challenge--compounding the difficulty is the fact that today’s kids are bombarded by an all-pervasive pop culture...

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R133: The Art and Science of Couples Therapy

CE Credits: 7
Price: $79

Authors: Katy Butler, Susan Johnson, Esther Perel, Jay Lebow, Ashley Prend, Rosalind Barnett, Caryl Rivers

If most individuals and their problems are complex and difficult, what general conclusions can possibly be drawn about treating the average marriage in trouble?...

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R135: Masters of Psychotherapy

CE Credits: 7
Price: $79

Authors: Jay Efran et al., Jay Lebow, Mary Sykes Wylie, Richard Simon

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”...

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R136: Experiencing Trauma and War

CE Credits: 5
Price: $59

Authors: Cecilia Capuzzi Simon, James Gordon, Nancy Errebo, Don Ferguson

The devastating world of war-related trauma afflicts whole populations of people...

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R139: Supershrinks: Who Are They? What Can We Learn From Them?

CE Credits: 2
Price: $25

Authors: Scott Miller et al., Barry Duncan et al., Cynthia Maeschalk et al.

According to the standard wisdom, the greatest therapists—the “supershrinks”—are born not made...

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R134: Experiencing the Present Moment

CE Credits: 6
Price: $69

Authors: Michael Ventura, Daniel Siegel, Robert Scaer, Reid Wilson, Douglas Flemons, Steven Hayes

For decades, the rationale for therapy has been to help clients change--their relationships, their careers, their feelings about the past, their personalities...

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