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Controversy at APA * Motivating the Depressed Client * Educational Videos for Babies Flunk * Different Alcoholics, Different Treatments * Does Therapy Breed... Read more

What to do when your teen clients give you the silent treatment. Read more

A book by a respected researcher argues that telepathy and clairvoyance may be on a continuum with more common traits of intuition and empathy. Read more

A woman recovering from cancer develops a new sense of her body and her comfort zone. Read more

Clinical diagnoses can have more to do with politics and economics than with science and effective treatment. Read more

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... Read more

Regularly using a few simple feedback measures—plus paying close attention to your failures—can make you a better therapist. Read more

Once skeptical about the value of regularly seeking client feedback, therapists at a public agency become true believers. Read more

Although he influenced a generation of therapists with his strategic methods, Jay Haley was always more at home as an observer of behavior than as an... Read more

A parentless woman recalls her childhood Christmas rituals. Read more

Careful attention to body language and nonverbal cues can dramatically streamline the process of therapeutic change. Read more

Despite everything I had no choice about, I did have one fundamental choice to make: my choice of a "stance" toward life. Would I find joy in the options that... Read more

When families become stressed by a member's long-term care needs, it's easy to continue the usual relationship patterns and perpetuate long-standing... Read more

Those who care for ailing family members often are undertaking a marathon, not a sprint. Read more

Few of us instinctively know what to do and say when families are confronting the death of a loved one. But we can start by being with them in the struggle. Read more

Drawing on spiritual resources can ease the pain and sorrow of death for client and therapist alike. Read more

Learning to accept our fears as guideposts to who we really want to be. Read more

* Is Therapy Harmful? * The Unintended Consequences of Black-Labeling Antidepressants * A Depression Vaccine * Unexpected Resilience Among Adolescents ... Read more

Effective clinical supervision requires an understanding of how supervisees develop and mature. Read more

Our best teachers aren't always the two-legged kind. Read more

Supervision that works requires understanding of how supervisees develop and mature in their clinical practice. Read more

The internet can be a phenomenal tool for marketing all types of practices in every part of the country. Even Luddites are finding that internet marketing can... Read more

The best form of risk management for your practice may be doing what you think is right. Read more

Shoplifting, now a worldwide epidemic, is curiously neglected by the mental health field. Read more

Grieving the departed will always elicit startling feelings and strange behaviors. It may be less about truth than about timing. Read more

Attending to clients' mental health issues as part of a behavioral health team can be both stressful and exhilarating. Read more

As genomic science is increasingly able to map our future, therapists must help families make difficult decisions. Read more

The phrase "in sickness and in health" is a hallowed part of our marriage vows for good reason. As human beings vulnerable to a wide variety of diseases and... Read more

How to continue to get the most out of life as you age. Read more

Learning to enhance performance by embracing doubt and fear. Read more