 |
|
Join Us
In This Section
Recent Posts
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.Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?
By 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.
Friday Workshops
328 Depathologizing Porn: When Is It an Addiction?
Tammy Nelson and Joe Kort
Friday Afternoon Only
While the ease of access to porn has caused unquestionable harm to some, the overwhelming majority of users don’t become addicts. . .
and porn use doesn’t threaten a marriage like infidelity does. In fact, porn use may satisfy many individual needs, unrelated to psychopathology or sexual dysfunction. In this workshop, we’ll describe a method for assessing whether clients’ porn use is an addiction or a way of fulfilling unmet needs. We’ll discuss how to help couples face the crisis when one partner discovers that the other is secretly using pornography. You’ll learn how to help couples depathologize the issue, explore its significance to the user, and define limits. Finally, we’ll talk about helping the spouses develop empathy and validation, ultimately creating a more differentiated sex life.
Tammy Nelson, Ph.D, M.S., is the founder and executive director of the Center for Healing. She’s the author of Getting the Sex You Want and What’s Eating You?
Joe Kort, Ph.D., L.M.S.W., specializes in individual, couples, and group psychotherapy for gay and straight clients. He’s a certified sex therapist and certified Imago Relationship therapist and the author of Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide.
© 2013 Psychotherapy Networker