Facing the Challenge
Psychotherapy Responds to the Pandemic
May/June 2020
If ever a conference devoted to “The Art of Healing in an Anxious Time” was needed, this is that time. At the 2020 Virtual Symposium, some of the field’s leaders offered both practical guidance and personal perspective on how to put what we know about trauma, mindfulness, and emotional connection to work as we confront a crisis few of us imagined possible.
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Family Matters
Sorting Through a Closet Full of Memories
May/June 2020
When a mother and daughter are cut from different cloths, can they still hang in the same closet?
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Hot Chips
From Storytelling 2020
May/June 2020
When providing a secure base means overturning conventions.
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In Consultation
Dating at Midlife
May/June 2020
Helping clients who find themselves single again in midlife navigate a new world of dating.
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Isolation and Self-Care
From Virtual symposium 2020
May/June 2020
Even in a restrictive time like this, when so many of us are divorced from the ordinary structures of our lives, there are practical things we can do to address what our brains need to function properly.
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Letters from Home
From Storytelling 2020
May/June 2020
Finding hope in a hopeless situation.
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Playing Together Apart
Figuring Out Teletherapy for Kids
May/June 2020
Without a well-researched paradigm for reaching young children who might need teleplay therapy in an uncertain time like this, therapists are forging ahead into unknown territory.
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Point of View
Listening to Suicidal Clients: How to Get Beyond our Fears
May/June 2020
A suicidologist opens up about her personal struggles and what actually helps when working with suicidal clients.
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Practice Tools - May/June 2020 Issue
49 Relationship Questions for Every Couple
May/June 2020
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Radical Compassion in Challenging Times
From Virtual Symposium 2020
May/June 2020
At times, when things fall apart, as they are in our world right now, each of us has an essential medicine to offer. So the inquiry—Who do you want to be? And what kind of world do we want?—becomes critical. Just as there’s a viral contagion, it’s crucial to remember that loving presence is contagious.
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Tales from the Therapy Room
Our Annual Storytelling Feature!
May/June 2020
Five therapists recall the up-against-the-wall moments from practice that required them to toss away the usual clinical playbook.
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The Audition
From Storytelling 2020
May/June 2020
What do you do when you're wrong for the part?
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The Body as Ally
From Virtual Symposium 2020
May/June 2020
One of our biggest challenges is to realize that physical isolation doesn’t automatically mean emotional disconnection. We still have choices that enable us to distinguish between the pandemic outside and the panic-demic we can create within ourselves.
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The Healthy Mind Platter
From Virtual Symposium 2020
May/June 2020
Our minds are more than what happens inside our skulls, and even in our bodies. They’re fully embodied, and they’re fully relational. Here are seven daily activities that support a healthy mind.
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The Viral Wake-up Call
From Virtual Symposium 2020
May/June 2020
Amid the pandemic, the pain and vulnerability of the majority of Americans, who live on the financial edge and can’t afford a crisis like this, are glaringly apparent. What’s also clear is how totally interdependent we are.
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Two Scoops of Vanilla
From Storytelling 2020
May/June 2020
When a challenging clients brings out our true inner colors.
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United in Uncertainty
A Technophobic Therapist and Covid-19
May/June 2020
A technophobic therapist struggles with a new professional reality.
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Practice Tools - March/April 2020 Issue
REACTS Journaling Exercise
March/April 2020
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A Need for Speed?
How Therapists Can Meet a Growing Demand
March/April 2020
The push in popular culture to raise awareness about mental health means more and more people are seeking help. With resources limited, often where they’re needed most, some therapists are touting a range of ultrabrief therapies as crucial to expanding the field’s reach and impact. But can such short interventions really make a difference?
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Bookmarks
Exposing the Hoax: The Inside Story of the Rosenhan Study
March/April 2020
In her new book, author Susannah Cahalan exposes the fabrications of one of psychology’s most famous studies.
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Case Study
Breaking the Silence with Nonverbal Autism
March/April 2020
A controversial method makes talk therapy possible for people who don’t talk.
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Clinician's Digest
Are Mental Health Days for Students a Good Idea?
March/April 2020
Spearheaded by high school students and supported by some influential adults, a movement is underway to mandate a limited number of mental health days as part of a public school’s official sick-day policy.
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Editor's Note
March/April 2020
Something’s afoot in the therapy world, and some clinicians will surely wrinkle their brows at it. Although it comes in various forms, the catchiest term for it is microtherapy. Can these single-session encounters help meet the growing demand for therapy? Is it all some clients need or want? How effective is it really?
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Family Matters
Irish Whiskey: The Comfort of a Powerful Lineage
March/April 2020
How our family lineages weave a connection of giving and taking and giving again.
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