We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
A New Revolution Teaches Us About Women’s Psychological Fortitude
An Iranian Therapist’s Reflection
Images of brave citizens protesting the death in police custody of a young Iranian university student accused of not wearing her hijab properly, have traveled around the world, garnering renewed outrage at the Islamic Republic's treatment of women. An Iranian-American therapist speaks to how the mix of grief, anger, and a new insistence on change in her former homeland, could be affecting clients throughout the Iranian diaspora and beyond, and what therapists can do to help.
How Therapists Can Support Parents and Children Impacted by Mass Shootings
When senseless tragedy turns a child's world upside down, parents are looking for mental health support for the whole family.
Wartime Trauma Treatment
Reflections from a Therapist Treating Ukrainian Survivors
A therapist specializing in trauma treatment in the wake of human-made and natural disasters shares what she's seeing in her work with survivors of the war in Ukraine.
Addressing Racism in the Therapy Room
Ten Ways You Can Be an Ally
Everyone deserves a space where they’re fully seen and heard, so it’s critical that therapists who don’t identify as people of color are knowledgeable, empathetic, and compassionate when addressing race, racism, and identity in the consulting room. Here’s a ten-point framework for developing greater cultural competency.
Covid Comes to Therapy
Navigating Collective Trauma
For a few years now, I’ve worked with groups around the world to address collective trauma. Our focus is usually on something that had happened elsewhere and in the past: never had I imagined that, with the advent of COVID, I’d find myself so deeply entrenched in an immediate and ongoing collective trauma. One group of men, with whom I’d been working for many years, was particularly affected.
COVID Trauma
The Invisible Pandemic
What can we do in the face of our current crisis? There are no clear answers or easy fixes. As providers, we must endeavor to do what we teach our patients: in an out-of-control situation that we cannot change, we can only control how we respond to our own fear and trauma, and, for us therapists, that also means the secondary trauma we experience as a result of our work.
Mental Health or Marxism?
Therapists on the Fight over Social Emotional Learning in Schools
Social-emotional learning isn’t entirely new, but as more districts emphasize the curricula in the wake of COVID, confusion from parents appears to be on the rise. And in some communities, parents are doing much more than weighing this new reality: they’re staging entire revolts.
"Networker Live" with Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren
Interactive Discussions with Networker Contributors
Networker content editor Meaghan Winter sat down for a live conversation and Q&A with Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren, pioneer of America's first mental health court and author of "A Court of Refuge." The pair discussed Lerner-Wren's activism, in addition to the concept of therapeutic justice, mental health care reform, and much, much more.
Should Therapists Go Back to an Office?
Deepening Our Work “Off Stage”
Seeing clients through the COVID-19 crisis has shown us not only that psychotherapy can be effective outside the traditional frame—complete with an office, couch, and a therapist who never breaks character—but also that shattering the frame when necessary, and allowing our humble humanness to be present, is actually necessary to connect with each unique client.
Can We Go Back?
A Therapist Contemplates a Return to the Office
All of us, therapists and clients alike, have been forced to adapt to the reality of living in a pandemic. But as we catch our collective breath, we must confront the fact that the pandemic opened a Pandora’s box of questioning what once seemed non-negotiable.
