The Challenge of Harm Reduction
Changing Attitudes Toward Addiction Treatment
September/October 2019
Until they’ve done the challenging and sometimes painful work in therapy, many people can’t even begin to imagine curtailing their drug use. For them, therapy is a before, not an after; and their engagement in therapy, rather than their abstinence, is the primary goal of treatment.
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An Interview with Mary Pipher
July/August 2019
How both therapy and the challenges adolescents face have changed in the digital age.
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Bookmarks
How We Can Better Protect Victims of Domestic Abuse
July/August 2019
A new book explores the devastating patterns of fear, shame, and secrecy that perpetuate intimate partner violence and too often escalate to murder.
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The Biotech Dragon: A Kid-Friendly Approach to Self-Regulation
July/August 2019
Engaging kids in talk therapy is often a frustrating struggle. So what happens when you introduce a video game and some cool bioresponsive tech?
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Clinician's Digest
Addressing the Psychological Fallout of Active-Shooter Drills
July/August 2019
In response to the ever-growing incidences of gun violence targeting students, many schools have instituted active-shooter drills. How are therapists addressing the psychological effects?
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Craving Device-Free Attention
Technoconflicts in Families Today
July/August 2019
Therapists are used to adolescent girls grumbling about their hovering, overinvolved parents. But these days, many have a new complaint—technoference in the home. Even as they’re tethered to their own screens, teens are wanting more, not less, of their digitally distracted parents’ attention.
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Editor's Note
July/August 2019
For a long while, most of us thought we had the signs and signals of teenage girls down: the growing obsession with friends, the pain of peer rejection, the rebellions both large and small. All that’s still going on, but in a tech-based world that can feel far more uncertain.
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Family Matters
The Last Joke: The Pathos of a May-December Marriage
July/August 2019
A shared sense of humor can help couples make heavy issues feel lighter. But what happens when there’s no one there to get the joke?
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Mondays With My Girls
Lessons in Being Real
July/August 2019
A group of preteen girls in a long-term shelter teach a budding therapist some unexpected lessons about the true meaning of resilience and the power of relationship.
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Point of View
Terminal Illness and the Choice to Die
July/August 2019
A number of states have passed legislation giving terminal patients the option of medical aid in dying. What therapists need to know about helping patients and families as they move through that emotionally fraught process.
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The World of Adolescent Girls
Helping Them Find Their North Star
July/August 2019
On the 25th anniversary of her landmark book Reviving Ophelia, the author reflects on what she’s learned over the years about working with teenage girls and helping them resist a culture that keeps encouraging them to be the object of another’s gaze.
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Therapists in a Fishbowl
The Challenges of Small-Town Practice
July/August 2019
Some down-to-earth advice on practicing in a small town, where there’s no way to escape being seen and talked about.
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Working with Difficult Men
Where’s the Leverage for Change?
July/August 2019
The conflict between an older, more traditional view of masculinity and a newer, more progressive one is the underlying issue in many marriages today. Helping these couples means violating many of the fundamental principles in the traditional therapy playbook.
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Who Am I to Judge? The Question of the "Good Enough" Parent
May/June 2019
A child-custody consultant wrestles with the question of what is a good enough mother.
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In the Aftermath of Suicide: The Long Journey to Healing
May/June 2019
In the wake of a loved one’s suicide, therapists must have the patience to sit with clients as the slow and painful process of healing unfolds. CASE COMMENTARY by Douglas Flemons.
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Claiming Center Stage
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019
May/June 2019
"Night after night, I’d wait for my father to shout, 'Who’s it gonna be, folks? Who’ll be the lucky girl to come on down and ride the elephant tonight?'”
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Clinician's Digest
Ketamine: The Latest Wonder Drug?
May/June 2019
Even as ketamine’s popularity continues to rise for depression treatment, it’s still fighting an uphill battle for clinical acceptance.
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Consciousness and Connection
Highlights from Symposium 2019
May/June 2019
It’s hard to think of anyone who's had more influence on our field than neuropsychiatrist Dan Siegel. His far-ranging keynote proposed that the integration of knowledge from such diverse disciplines as interpersonal neurobiology, psychotherapy, neuroscience, quantum physics, and mindfulness practice may offer hope for the future of the planet.
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Editor's Note
May/June 2019
In the true tales published in this issue, the storytellers made a leap of faith, dropping all pretense of professional omniscience and trusting their colleagues to listen from the heart.
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Embracing the Other
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019
May/June 2019
“Jeremy, we’ve never talked about it, but I cover my head for many reasons,” I told him. “One of them is to keep the energy contained—the heat doesn’t escape."
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Family Matters
An Apple Seed and Trained Monkeys: Growing Up Under the Influence of My Big Sister's Imagination
May/June 2019
Whether as playmate, protector, or tormentor, a big sister looms large in the imagination of her younger sibling.
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Flourishing as We Age
Highlights from Symposium 2019
May/June 2019
Mary Pipher, author of the classic Reviving Ophelia and nine subsequent books, was this year’s recipient of the Networker’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her many contributions to broadening the perspective of the field and expanding its moral imagination.
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Healing as a Subversive Act
Highlights from Symposium 2019
May/June 2019
In his opening keynote, Canadian physician Gabor Maté called on therapists to expand their frame of reference and recognize how their job is too often a kind of mopping up after the cruelties and injustices of the larger systems that shape our lives.
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In Consultation
Truths and Consequences: Helping Teens Make Good Decisions
May/June 2019
When it comes to high-risk behaviors, therapists can find themselves caught between boundary-testing teens and their concerned parents.
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