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?

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.

You Don’t Have To Choose

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

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525 When Love Isn’t Enough: Treating Foster and Adoptive Families

Kenneth V. Hardy

Saturday Afternoon Only

Many foster and adoptive parents, prey to the notion that “all these kids need is love, structure, and discipline,” aren’t well-prepared for the emotional and psychological demands . . .

of caring for kids who’ve often suffered pervasive trauma and loss. Therapists working with these families must be prepared to deal with frequent crises and multiple service agencies. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the dynamics affecting adoptive/foster parents and children--animosities between foster and biological families, cultural-identity conflicts, cross-racial situations, abuse, violence, interrupted mourning, and rage. You’ll learn a multicontextual, systemic treatment for effectively working with the foster/adoptive and biological parents. We’ll emphasize an intensive relational therapy approach for addressing the child’s trauma wounds, repairing attachment ruptures, defusing rage, and confronting the dynamics of oppression in which these families are often mired.

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Kenneth V. Hardy, Ph.D., is the director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships and professor of family therapy at Drexel University. He’s the coauthor of Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence and Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice.

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