Trauma, the alluring diagnosis of the therapy profession.
May/June 2014
No other single condition tests the therapeutic relationship quite so stringently, demands so much from the clinician, or combines so many disparate treatment challenges in one messy package as the traumatized client.
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Bringing Families into Trauma Treatment
May/June 2014
If we don’t open up the one-on-one therapeutic cloister, trauma sufferers may never learn how to engage in the give and take of real-life relationships. By failing to include their families, we too often fail to help them weave change into their daily lives.
Some Clients Challenge our Capacity for Compassion
May/June 2014
Most therapists find it relatively easy to feel empathy for the usual hyperaroused, vulnerable trauma client. But it can be a lot tougher to remain nonjudgmental and receptive with dissociative clients who’ve done horrible things to traumatize others.
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25 Years of Learning Trauma Treatment
May/June 2014
25 years ago, we believed that helping trauma survivors dig into dark and unspeakable horrors would set them free. But in this new age of trauma treatment, we aim to help our clients find the light.
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Highlights from Symposium 2014
May/June 2014
To get through to clients in our increasingly ADD culture, therapists must learn to evoke a deeper, more visceral engagement with them. At this year’s Networker Symposium, a lineup of innovators shared their wisdom about how to do just that.
Do Brain Games Build Cognitive Muscle? * Grim Job Prospects for Mental Health Grad
By Tori Rodriguez and Kathleen Smith
May/June 2014
Brain games and grad prospects
The Case for Neurofeedback: Rewiring the brain in the consulting room
May/June 2014
The increasing popularity of neurofeedback is based on the growing evidence that a wide variety of psychological disorders can be understood as firing mistakes in the brain’s electrical activity.
Rush to Judgment: Beware of the ADHD diagnosis
May/June 2014
Part of the epidemic of misdiagnosed ADHD in young children today results from a failure to understand how trauma often leads to difficulty learning in school.
Brain Imaging and Psychotherapy: Why is it so controversial?
May/June 2014
For nearly 20 years, psychiatrist Daniel Amen has led a controversial crusade to make brain imaging an accepted part of psychotherapeutic practice.
12 Missteps? The evidence that AA works is many steps behind
May/June 2014
The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
The authors of a provocative new book argue that, despite its sterling reputation, alcoholics anonymous has one of the worst success rates in all of medicine.
Me and My Belly: A Lifelong Relationship
May/June 2014
A middle-aged man explores his troubled relationship with the body his genetics have saddled him with.