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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

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Saturday Workshops

529 Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The New Art of Dying

Katy Butler

Saturday Afternoon Only

Never before in history has medicine resisted death so fiercely, and made it so painful. . . .

As those we love decline, we find ourselves confronting a broken and spiritually adrift medical system that’s morphed from saving lives to prolonging dying. As a result, family members may find themselves in intense psychological binds--rebelling against doctors who won’t quit, unsure of how to “do the right thing,” and facing the wrenching loss of someone they love. This workshop will provide the beginnings of a roadmap through this modern labyrinth. We’ll discuss the psychological tasks and growth points facing families; the financial incentives promoting the medical “cure” at the expense of medical “care”; whether we need to adopt “slow medicine” and “decision-coaching” approaches to medical options; and how to develop a new “art of dying,” drawing on Buddhism and other traditional resources, that can help restore sacredness to life, death, loss and suffering.

Katy ButlerKaty Butler, M.A., the Networker’s features editor, wrote “My Father’s Broken Heart: How a Pacemaker Wrecked Our Family,” which appeared in The New York Times Magazine. It described her parents’ deaths and reported on the perverse financial incentives fueling late-life medical overtreatment.