January/February 2022
How have we come to a place where fully a quarter of Americans aren’t merely disgruntled with family members, but are distressed enough to actually cut them off? What’s the emotional fallout of these fractures, both for those who initiate them and for the rest of the family? And how can therapists best navigate this relational minefield and avoid missteps that could widen an existing fissure?
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Today's Renaissance in Systems Thinking
January/February 2022
In their rush to change family systems—if not the world—family therapists didn’t anticipate that they too would be affected by structural forces.
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Three family therapists on how they get buy-in from family members
By Psychotherapy Networker
January/February 2022
To practice family therapy, therapists need to get multiple family members in the same room at the same time. It sounds simple—and yet!
Resolving a Mother–Daughter Conflict
By Julia Samuel
January/February 2022
The power that parents have to influence the wellbeing of their adult children is often underestimated.
Are We Helping or Harming?
By Joshua Coleman
January/February 2022
Today’s culture of therapy both reflects and contributes to our nation’s ever-growing embrace of individualism—for better and, sometimes, for worse.
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Three Steps toward Repair
January/February 2022
Three tips for helping adult siblings make amends.
Helping Parents Reengage Their Kids
January/February 2022
Helping parents process their own childhood pain is a difficult but necessary part of helping them reconnect with an estranged child.
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How to Help Family Members Coexist
January/February 2022
After journeying through the Family Dialogue process, estranged family members often end up adjusting the very notion of what togetherness means.
When Siblings Parent Each Other
By Amanda Ann Gregory
January/February 2022
Children need an adult who provides safety, attunement, empathy, acceptance, and boundaries. Can a sibling be the next best thing?
Helping Adult Children Heal
By Psychotherapy Networker
January/February 2022
Five therapists weigh in on how to support adult children in reconnecting with estranged parents.
The Latest Science on Trauma and Weight
January/February 2022
When therapists assume that higher-weight individuals have a traumatic past, it adds another layer to the fat-shaming they’re already likely enduring.
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Is Meditation as Safe as We Think?: The Risks We Don’t Talk About
January/February 2022
Meditation is generally considered one of the safest practices for our clients. But one organization says that’s not always the case.
When Therapists Blame Themselves: Using Regret to Deepen Our Work
By Jelena Kecmanovic
January/February 2022
Most therapists struggle with guilt and self-blame related to their work. Thankfully, there are ways to leverage these feelings so we can grow from them.
Bursting the Bubble of Individual Therapy: The Need to See Our Clients in a Relational Context
By Laurie Mintz
January/February 2022
As the years pass, is it possible that the more we work with long-term clients, the more we might overlook bigger issues that aren’t being addressed?
Burnout and the Body: Emily Nagoski on Naming the Real Enemy
January/February 2022
Self-care has long been touted as a panacea for burnout. Emily Nagoski has a different solution.
Suicide as a State of Being: One Man's Ongoing Struggle
January/February 2022
A new memoir from celebrated writer Donald Antrim reflects on the nature of suicide.
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Four Simple Ingredients: Lessons on Baking with Matthew
By Debra Fox
January/February 2022
Four simple ingredients will become bread, whether you do everything right or not. The result may not be perfect, but it doesn’t have to be.
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Helping Clients Understand Dissociation from Janina Fisher’s NEW The Living Legacy of Trauma Flip Chart – A Psychoeducational In-Session Tool for Clients and Therapists
By Psychotherapy Networker
January/February 2022
Your FREE practice tools download to use with clients right away.
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