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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.

Treating the Mixed-Agenda Couple

Bill Doherty On An Approach For Unaligned Relationships

Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?

Tough CustomersBy 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.

You Don’t Have To Choose

Casey Truffo On Doing The Work You Love And Making It Pay

From Intention to Action - Page 6


In a place like Nepal, I sometimes feel that it isn't entirely clear who's helping whom; being with these people awakens strong feelings of gratitude and humility. I see porters walking barefoot in the Himalayas, carrying 200 pounds on their backs, attached by a rope to their foreheads. They eat rice and lentils twice each day, drink sweetened milk tea, and walk 12 hours, up and down mountains, yet each one greets us with a huge grin and tented palms in the traditional sign of respect: "Namaste"—my spirit honors the divine within you.

The families we visit live in huts of dirt floors and three walls, with a goat, a water buffalo, or a yak tethered to the back. Sometimes as many as 10 family members live in one room. They have nothing but the clothes on their backs. Many don't have shoes. Yet I've never met people who express such joy at being alive, or are as gracious and dignified. I sometimes feel shame because of my own never-ending wants and desires. Every time I go to Nepal, I come back a different person, as do the other volunteers. I think of one particularly sweet story.

Cyrus Ellis, a counseling professor who specializes in cultural issues, had no idea how powerfully he'd be affected. One little girl, in particular, latched onto him. She'd never seen a black man before, much less someone so big and tall, but she walked right up to him and took his hand.

"I didn't know what she could possibly say to me," Cyrus recalled, "as she didn't speak a word of English, and I didn't know what I could say to her, but we held hands together. When it was time to leave, I saw her standing outside my window, so I leaned out. The little girl stretched herself as far as she could—and then kissed me on the cheek. She started giggling and then ran off toward her friends. I was just floored, smiling and giggling myself. I just can't tell you what this meant to me. I've thought over and over how I wish I could hit the reset button and live that moment again and again. I'll carry that moment inside me every day, forever."

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