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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 7


As for Inu, our first scholarship girl, she's now in her second year of college. She's the first child in her village to reach that level of education. She began our program declaring she wanted to become a nurse, because that's all she thought a woman could be. By the next year, she'd changed her mind and said she wanted to be a teacher, the only other profession she thought was suitable for a woman. This last year during my visit, she grabbed my arm and pulled me aside, away from the crowd. I was struck by how assertive she'd become; when I'd first met her, she'd barely speak to me in halting English. Now she was a poised and confident young woman.

"Dr. Jeffrey," she said in a whispered voice, glancing around to make sure nobody was listening.

"Tapaain laai kasto cha, Inu?" How are you doing, I asked her, pleased I'd remember to address her in the adult form now that she was no longer a child.

"You remember I told you I wanted to be a teacher?"

"Yes, of course. You said you wanted to help other girls like yourself."

"Well, I changed my mind."

Inu looked at me with a serious expression, obviously uneasy about what she was going to tell me. Finally, she took a deep breath and blurted out, "I want to be a professor!"

"A professor?"

"Yes, Dr. Jeffrey, I want to be a professor like you, but I want to teach English, so more girls will have a chance for the future."

There's no way to do this kind of work without being transformed by the people you're presumably helping. Just as Cyrus had had his moment he would remember forever, this moment was one of mine.

Jeffrey Kottler, Ph.D., is professor of counseling at California State University, Fullerton, and president of the Madhav Ghimire Foundation. He's the author of more than 75 books, including On Being a Therapist; Making Changes Last; Divine Madness; and The Client Who Changed Me. For further information: www.ghimirefoundation.org or email: jkottler@fullerton.edu. Letters to the Editor about this article my be e-mailed to letters@psychnetworker.org.

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