A Legacy of Living with Courage
Discovering the Watchful Heart
March/April 2021
The legacies of extraordinary people we’ve lost invite us to embrace the examples they’ve left behind. But how exactly do we do it?
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A Voyage Through Our Craft
Editor’s Notes and Symposium Intros from over the Years
March/April 2021
In his Editor’s Notes and Symposium speeches, Rich always told a story, one that drew from his own life while capturing a collective momentum in the field. This buffet of his writings from over the years showcases not only his unique insights, but the humor with which he offered them.
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Celebrating the Creative Journey
A Writer's Remembrance
March/April 2021
Even for seasoned writers, being edited by Rich wasn't an easy process, but it led them to the murky, half-buried thing waiting below the surface—the thing that actually mattered.
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Covering Psychotherapy
The Evolution of a Life's Work
March/April 2021
Every decade, on the anniversary of the Networker, Rich reflected on the trends and trajectories he’d witnessed in the field. This piece tells the story, in his own words, of his life’s work documenting therapy’s ever-changing landscape and the wider culture that shapes it.
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Editor's Note
March/April 2021
This special edition of the Networker came together because of the great love so many people feel for Rich. Most of them don’t have bylines here, and some of them had never even met him in person. As soon as we put out word of his death, the messages poured in from people wanting to celebrate his inimitable “Rich-ness” and convey how deeply he influenced their work. We couldn’t possibly include them all here, but, in a very real way, everyone who cared for Rich and the community he created has inspired this issue. It’s one we never dreamed we’d have to put together, but we hope it captures his buoyant spirit, his quiet bravery, and his enormous heart.
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On the Death of My Friend
A Reflection on Bipolar Disorder and Suicide
March/April 2021
Helping our community understand the suicide of one of modern psychotherapy’s most cherished public figures.
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Practice Tools - March/April 2021 Issue
Reflecting on Hardship & Taking a Self-Compassion Break
March/April 2021
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Soul Work
Recovering Our Voices
March/April 2021
Almost 20 years ago, an editorial experience writing about a racial trauma at the hands of police resulted in a lasting friendship and an article that Networker readers voted into the All-Time Top 10.
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The Great Appreciator
Just One of the Many Rich Simons
March/April 2021
Sometimes the act of describing something vague or giving it a name dispels the vagueness and makes it come alive. “Naming something” was probably Rich’s guiding principle.
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The Grief We Hold
Loving in the Midst of Loss
March/April 2021
Our soul and our psyche know how to grieve. We don't need to learn it. It's not a technique. What we need to learn is not to avoid it.
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A Field Day for OCD?
Helping Kids Stay Grounded
January/February 2021
In this genuinely hazardous COVID-19 environment, how can therapists help kids and families reject their OCD safety rituals?
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A Turning Point for Caregivers
Discussing the Hidden Impacts of the Pandemic
January/February 2021
Our current caregiving crisis is a societal failure, not the result of one family’s shortcomings.
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Bookmarks
Beyond Normal: Our Evolving Attitudes Toward Mental Illness
January/February 2021
Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Richard Grinker. A new book examines how different cultures view mental illness and the stigma that persists in America.
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Bridging the Gap
School–Therapy Collaboration in Trying Times
January/February 2021
Although it’s never been easy to take oh-so-familiar systems principles and put them to work in real life, the devastating sweep of the pandemic has made collaboration between schools and therapists more important than ever.
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Case Study
Gender-Affirmative Therapy: Helping Transgender Clients Begin Their Journey
January/February 2021
The key elements of gender-affirmative therapy for clients who are medically or socially transitioning.
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Editor's Note
January/February 2021
Part of honoring our founder and longtime editor, Rich Simon, who passed away in November, has been to complete this issue, which explores how our current pandemic reality is affecting kids and their caregivers. As we crafted this issue together throughout the fall, we often wondered whether the challenges of 2020 would still feel relevant as 2021 arrived. Sadly, many of the questions our authors explore have become even more pressing now.
Will the crisis we’re grappling with spur us to develop new approaches for supporting anxious kids, underserved kids, and overwhelmed schools and parents? Can we create more effective ways to help families? These challenges might seem overwhelming, but as Rich regularly reminded us, we don’t need to come up with all the answers: what’s important is that we keep asking the questions.
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Families Under Pressure
Helping Relieve Today’s Parents & Kids
January/February 2021
The pandemic has created an emotional petri dish for kids and parents who are stuck in place, terribly stressed, and feeling alone. How are families supposed to survive—much less thrive—under these unprecedented, pressure-cooker conditions?
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Family Matters
Rhythm Guitar: Stepping Out of a Big Brother's Shadow
January/February 2021
Finding harmony in a difficult sibling relationship.
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IFS and Chronic Pain
Listening to Inner Parts that Hold the Hurt
January/February 2021
If most chronic pain is maintained by complex mind–body interactions, how can therapists help treat it?
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In Consultation
The Transformative Power of Loss: Helping Clients Cope with Aging and Grief
January/February 2021
Facilitating bereavement support groups for aging clients.
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Point of View
Scaling Up Mental Health: Sharing Our Expertise with a Wider Community
January/February 2021
Psychologist Ali Mattu is on a mission to bring therapeutic principles to the mainstream.
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Practice Tools - January/February 2021 Issue
“Am I Problem-Solving, Worrying, or Ruminating?”
January/February 2021
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Reaching “Unreachable” Teens & Tweens
12 Tips to Get You in the Side Door
January/February 2021
Building a relationship with heavily armored, developmentally regressed, profoundly sad adolescents is no small feat. They don’t exactly let you in the front door.
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