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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

How does a therapeutic alliance become more than that? Read more

At last count, therapists could choose from among 500 different treatment techniques. But after all these years, there's still no evidence that the overall... Read more

A new generation of filmmakers is taking us beyond the Americocentric world of mainstream cinema. Read more

The tragic confrontation at Waco, Texas, in 1993 taught us much about what to do to help traumatized children, and perhaps even more about what not to do. Read more

Facing the challenge of working with a dissembling adolescent in a blended family means changing the "official story" of the problem. Read more

A session with a homeless client recalls a long-ago lesson about accomplishing an impossible task. Read more