Community Mental Health Today
Encompassing the Big & the SmallThe promise of the community mental health movement of the 1960s, providing high-quality psychological and social services to poor families, remains unfullled... Read more
Who Do You Trust?
Revisiting the McMartin Preschool CaseSometimes it can be easier to argue about witch-hunts than risk confronting the dark, unsavory reality of child abuse. Read more
Has CBT Lost Its Mojo?
Questions have been raised about whether the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy, the field’s most researched treatment model, has been overstated. Read more
Editor's Note - November/December 2015
This issue of the Networker is an attempt to explore what we can contribute as a profession to the “conversation about race,” which, as lame and ungainly... Read more
A Cure for the Yips
Brainspotting and Performance BlocksTraumatic experiences are often the root of athletic and other kinds of performance blocks. Read more
The View From Black America
Listening to the Untold StoriesMany poor, young, black people see themselves as trapped behind a wall-less prison with no exits. They know all too well that their daily experience—whether... Read more
Saturdays Lost
Revisiting a Bittersweet RitualA son remembers a distant father and the bittersweet ritual that bonded them. Read more
Black Unlike Me
Some Uncomfortable Reflections on Growing Up WhiteAt a time when many are calling for a renewed national conversation about race, an aging, liberal, white New Yorker—who admits he’s never been a party to... Read more
Lessons from the Love Lab
The Science of Couples TherapyThe pioneers who birthed couples and family therapy never paused to scienti cally study the relationships they treated. Now, after systematically observing and... Read more
Helping Therapy Clients Cope with the Reality of Death
Clinical Wisdom to Combat Fear, Anxiety, and Grief at the End of LifeFor 17 years, managing responses to death has become part of my work, whether originally my intention or not. I’ve aspired to helping families hang tough... Read more
ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens
Congratulations to Debra Burdick and ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens on winning the gold medal at the 2017 IBPA... Read more
Multicultural Counseling Workbook
Cultural competency begins with knowing who you are. Interactive, engaging and fun -- this workbook is filled with valuable exercises, worksheet, games and... Read more
Schema Therapy: Proven Techniques to Treat Your Most Challenging and Resistant Clients
Anxiety Chronic Depression Eating Disorders BPD Substance Abuse Narcissism Schema therapy is an innovative, integrated therapeutic approach... Read more
Pornography on the Rise: A Growing Mental Health Problem
Wendy Maltz on the Need to Address Porn Addiction as a Public Health ThreatNearly 40 million Americans visit Internet porn sites at least once a month. Not surprisingly, concerns about the effect of porn on individuals and... Read more
A Brain Science Strategy for Overwriting Traumatic Memories
Creating Juxtaposition Experiences to Relieve Trauma SymptomsWhat we clinicians have learned in recent years about the intricacies of the brain's implicit memory systems has certainly helped us better recognize the... Read more
VIDEO: Moving Forward When Treatment Seems to Make a Problem Worse
Chris Germer on shifting the focus from fixing a problem to embracing it with compassionWhat someone resists persists. It’s a paradoxical dynamic that you’ve probably seen in the course of your own clinical work. In this video, Chris explains... Read more
A Diet-Free Way to Help Clients with Eating Problems
Judith Matz on Abandoning Weight Loss as a Marker for SuccessMost therapists have been taught that if we can help clients understand the emotional triggers of their overeating, they’ll be able to control their behavior... Read more
Functional Family Therapy: A New Road Map for Behavioral Change
Using FFT to Get Parents and Kids Motivated, Allied, and Committed to ChangeOver the years, I’ve found that I’ve needed a solid, research-backed clinical model, which would guide me in sessions and keep me grounded during... Read more
VIDEO: Overcoming Barriers to Self-Compassion
Tim Desmond on Self-Compassion in TherapyIn this video, Tim walks us through his process for engaging a client who’s resistant to self-compassion. It’s a great step-by-step example that will give... Read more
The Healing Power of Emotion
New Perspectives. New Approaches.Emotion shapes and organizes our experience and connection to others. It readies us for specific actions and motivates us to change—research now confirms all... Read more
What the Financial Crisis Reveals About Our Psyche and Values
Confronting our Definitions of Wealth in the Therapy RoomThe current economic crisis may be no more than a rather large bump in the golden road of endlessly self-renewing American prosperity. Still, it's hard not to... Read more
Putting Clients with Asperger's Syndrome on the Path to Success
How Adding Brain Science to Therapy Normalizes Living with Asperger'sAdults with Asperger's syndrome often behave as if they were confused actors walking onto a stage and being the only ones who don't know the lines or the plot... Read more
Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook
Congratulations to Daniel J. Fox and his book, Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook, for winning a gold medal at the 2016... Read more
America’s Opportunity Chasm
A Noted Scholar Documents Our Decline in Social MobilityRobert Putnam documents the myriad psychological, health, and political consequences of the ever-growing disparities between rich and poor in America today. Read more
Reflections on the Divorce Revolution
Assessing Our ImpactAre you a therapist that's "marriage friendly?" It's the inclination towards helping clients in good relationships stay together. Read more
