Lessons in Attunement
Scott Miller, Brooke Mathewes • 12/27/2019
What horsemanship can teach us about making sure our clients feel seen, heard, and helped.
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The Art of Healing in an Age of Science
Scott Miller, Mark Hubble • 3/13/2017
Studies show more people pay for the services of advisors claiming special powers than see mental health practitioners. How can mentalists and mediums be flourishing at a time when therapists—trained and sanctioned to care for people’s emotional well-being—are struggling to inspire confidence? In an effort to improve therapists’ efficacy, two researchers find themselves on an unexpected path.
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What Supershrinks Can Teach Us
Françoise Mathieu, Mark Hubble, Scott Miller • 5/1/2015
An entire industry has sprung up to address the problem of compassion fatigue, but research indicates that the most commonly proposed answer, improved self-care, doesn’t work. In fact, the study of the most highly effective clinicians suggests that burnout isn’t related to caring too much, but continuing to care ineffectively.
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Scott Miller • 3/1/2015
To move forward, our profession needs a more consistent message about what we have to offer.
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What’s Missing from this Picture?
Mark Hubble, Scott Miller • 5/1/2011
Therapists usually enter the field because they’re drawn to it and have innate capacities to do the work. But whether they excel depends largely on their professional community. Unfortunately, current psychotherapy practice doesn’t foster excellence as much as mediocrity, inertia, and an intense fear of change.
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What's the Secret of Their Success?
Mark Hubble, Scott Miller • 11/1/2007
Why do some therapists clearly stand out above the rest, consistently getting far better results than most of their colleagues? According to the research, it isn't training, experience, theory, personality style, or even raw talent that makes the difference.
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Developing a Culture of Feedback in Your Practice
Barry Duncan, Scott Miller • 11/1/2007
Regularly using a few simple feedback measures—plus paying close attention to your failures—can make you a better therapist.
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How Soft Sell Has Replaced Hard Science
Barry Duncan, Scott Miller • 3/2/2000
Emotional suffering, according to a new view, is a genetic glitch, successfully treatable by drugs. Depression is no longer thought to be shaped by such diverse forces as a sedentary, lonely or impoverished life;
the loss of love, health or community; "learned helplessness" or feelings of powerlessness arising from unsatisfying work or an abusive relationship. Its resolution no longer requires anyone to get meaningful support from others, to establish a collaborative relationship with a good psychotherapist, to draw on community resources, or for communities to address conditions that breed depression.
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