VIDEO: When One Partner Wants Out
Discernment Counseling for the Mixed-Agenda CoupleIn at least 30 percent of couples who come to therapy, partners enter the consulting room with different agendas---one wants a divorce, the other wants to save... Read more
When Your Child Tells You They Are Trans: A Parent's Journey
What role should therapists play?As a therapist, how do you work with conservative parents struggling to parent their trans child? Psychotherapist Jean Malpas shares three keys to acceptance. Read more
VIDEO: Attuning to Reluctant Teens
Getting Through to Shut-Down KidsMost therapists are aware of the perils of trying to connect with teenage clients. Teens are often brought to therapy against their will by adults, which can... Read more
When Seismic Change Becomes the Norm
The Therapist in the Real WorldThere was a time, not long ago, when all therapists needed to begin practicing their craft was a quiet room, an appointment book, a phone, and an answering... Read more
The Bonds that Sustain Us
A Family Weathers a Time of UncertaintyWhat parent doesn’t know the ache of helplessness that comes when you can’t do anything for your child but feel entirely responsible anyway? Read more
Examining the Science of Torture
The Price of Coercive InterrogationA startling new book exposes how much more the military’s embrace of enhanced interrogation tactics in the war on terror was influenced by Hollywood, rather... Read more
Editor's Note - March/April 2016
I found talking to the transgender kids and their parents that I interviewed for this issue not only enlightening and educational, which I expected, but also... Read more
The Great Escape
Welcome to the World of Gender FluidityAs cultural attitudes about gender variance have undergone a profound shift, much of what therapists believed about what it means to be transgender is now... Read more
Supporting the Overwhelmed Child
Sometimes It Just Takes TimeA school counselor’s patient work with a sad, uncommunicative young boy demonstrates what a difference just being there can make. * Commentary by Janet... Read more
It Takes A Tribe
What It's Like to Raise (or Be) a Transgender ChildUntil very recently, most families with transgender children had never met another family like theirs. Now parents and children from the trailblazing Ackerman... Read more
Detoxifying Criticism
How to Help Clients Gain PerspectiveAn innovative way of working with people who are hypersensitive to criticism. Read more