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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

Beyond the Consulting Room


Beyond the Consulting Room

Therapists as catalysts of social change

By William Doherty

As you read this, the 2008 presidential election is behind us, and we therapists must decide what to do with our civic-minded impulses, which seem to peak and then subside every election cycle. Many of us have talked politics every day for a year. Some have hosted fundraisers; others have devoted long hours working on candidates' campaigns. (This being the therapy field, I leave it to you to guess which candidate received more empathy and support.)

In the recent past, once the votes had been counted, many of us retreated to our practices and hoped that our worst fears for the country wouldn't be realized. Like Chicago Cubs baseball fans, we consoled ourselves with a lame "Wait till next season!" But this time, something more seems to be stirring in the country and among discouraged therapists, and it isn't just anchored to the outcome of the election.

As I think back to the presidential contests of my adulthood, beginning in the late 1960s, it's clear that I've placed too much importance on who gets elected. With many of my therapist-friends, I've been on a bipolar ride between idealization and cynicism, sometimes reversing affectively within a given administration, and always hoping that the next election cycle will bring the great new leader. This election year at first seemed no different: the first choice was between a superhero and a superwonk (both good people; don't get me wrong), followed by a choice between the superhero and a war hero tethered to supermom. But as with any idealization, it's a setup: these leaders will always disappoint because we expect them to do work that only we can do for ourselves.

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