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Our Aging Families

Magazine Article

September 14, 2022

Our Aging Families

Encouraging New Conversations between Parents and Adult Children

Ron Taffel

A fundamental change has been percolating in how adult children and their aging parents interact. Read More

Online Story - Networker Magazine Live

June 8, 2022

What Makes Change: Conversations with Master Clinicians

Ron Taffel & Anna Lock

Ron Taffel talks with Angela Diaz, Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Center, on how we can tailor our interventions to meet the unique needs of our young clients. Read More
The Playful Therapist

Magazine Article

May 22, 2022

The Playful Therapist

7 Clinicians Share Their Best Strategies

Frank Pittman, Cloe Madanes, Steve Andreas, Ron Taffel, Courtney Armstrong, Lynn Lyons, and Kirsten Lind Seal

In this collection, master therapists share how they’ve used humor in ways that both enliven and enrich the work of therapy. Read More
Reflections on Rich

Magazine Article

March 2, 2021

Reflections on Rich

Friends Celebrate His Life and Legacy

Esther Perel, Jay Lappin, Mary Jo Barrett, Mary Pipher, Richard Schwartz, Ron Taffel, and Terry Real

Sharing how Rich Simon impacted our lives—and the field as a whole. Read More
An illustration of a man helping a woman communicate through touch

Magazine Article - Case Study

March 5, 2020

Breaking the Silence

Facilitated Communication with Nonverbal Autism

Peter Rothenberg & Ron Taffel

A controversial method makes talk therapy possible for people who don’t talk. Read More
Case Study

Magazine Article - Case Study

July 3, 2019

The Biotech Dragon

A Kid-Friendly Approach to Self-Regulation

Erina White & Ron Taffel

Engaging kids in talk therapy is often a frustrating struggle. So what happens when you introduce a video game and some cool bioresponsive tech? Read More
A young person with dyed hair

Magazine Article

November 9, 2018

The "Millennial Effect"

How Young Clients Are Leading Therapists to New Places

Ron Taffel

As they’re about to surpass baby boomers as the largest generation, millennials are coming to dominate the population of therapy consumers. But their impact goes beyond sheer numbers. With sometimes startling directness, they’re demanding that their therapists become even more “real” and disclosing, whether therapists are comfortable being that unguarded or not. Read More

Online Story

August 1, 2018

VIDEO: Why We Need to Talk with Psychiatrists

How Being “On Call” Keeps Kids from Falling through the Cracks

Rich Simon & Ron Taffel

According to therapist Ron Taffel, author of Breaking Through to Teens, kids who need the extra boost from medication need their therapists to go the extra mile and communicate often with prescribers. Read More
Therapists Talk Gun Violence

Online Story

April 3, 2018

Therapists Talk Gun Violence

Brainstorming Ways to Make a Difference

Ron Taffel & Lauren Dockett

As an estimated half-a-million protestors poured into downtown Washington, DC for the March for Our Lives, therapists who were in town for their field’s largest... Read More
Family Therapy as We Know It Needs to Change

Online Story

March 30, 2018

Family Therapy as We Know It Needs to Change

To Reach Troubled Adolescents, Look to the "Second Family"

Ron Taffel

Editor's Note: This article this blog is taken from originally appeared in the March/April 1996 issue of Psychotherapy Networker. When his family was referred to... Read More

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Ron Taffel

Ron Taffel, PhD, is Chair, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in NYC, the author of eight books and over 100 articles on therapy and family life.