We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Brings Eastern Mindfulness Techniques to Western Medicine
Ronald Siegel
In the late 1970s, before mindfulness exercises caught on in psychotherapy, mindfulness meditation was making inroads into the medical community. This was largely through the efforts of Jon Kabat-Zinn, who had adapted ancient Buddhist and yogic practices to create Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
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Elisha Goldstein on Treating Depression with Self-Compassion
Rich Simon
While the source of physical wounds can usually be easily identified, the cause of emotional wounds are often hidden and hard to recognize, leading many depressed clients to assume they’re responsible for their own pain and therefore their suffering isn’t legitimate.
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Margaret Wehrenberg on Working with Low-Energy Depressed Clients
Rich Simon
The techniques you might employ to help a quiet avoider client dealing with depression won't work with a panicky depressive client, so identifying the type of depression you're working with is imperative.
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Zindel Segal on the Three-Minute Breathing Space
Rich Simon
When thinking about the mindfulness practice of meditation, we usually imagine the ideal situation: a quiet place, ample time to ruminate (anywhere from 40 minutes to several days), and no distractions to disturb the meditation process. Unfortunately, this ideal is rarely a realistic option for most people.
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Michael Yapko on the Safety and Effectiveness of Antidepressants
Rich Simon
The role of antidepressants in treating depressed clients continues to be a hot debate topic among psychotherapists.
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David Burns on Using Paradoxical Agenda Setting
Rich Simon
When a client seeks therapeutic help for depression, often the immediate response is to help them find what needs to change in their life to alleviate their depression. But what if the client isn't actively seeking change?
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Elisha Goldstein on Individually Treating Cases of Depression
Rich Simon
Depression is one of the most popular conditions that therapists treat, making it easy to fall into the habit of giving stock answers and advice to clients who come in seeking help for their depression.
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