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Case Study
"Why Won’t You Like Sports?" The Father–Son Struggle with Gender Expectations
September/October 2022
As young people move forward with new, more flexible frameworks for thinking about gender, it’s not always easy to bring parents along.
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Family Matters
Unhappy Campers: When a Guys’ Weekend Goes South
September/October 2022
A nightmare camping trip exposes the limits—and possibilities—of male bonding.
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In Consultation
Recognizing Medical Trauma: How Therapists Can Intervene
September/October 2022
Despite its pervasiveness, medical trauma often goes unrecognized.
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Open Book
It’s All in Your Head? A Primer on Chronic Pain
September/October 2022
A new book by physician Haider Warraich reveals the untold story of chronic pain.
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Point of View
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Helping Clients Face Uncertainty and Fear
September/October 2022
Psychologist Elizabeth Allured is helping therapists and their clients contend with anxieties about the world’s climate crisis.
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Practice Tools - September/October
The best therapeutic tools from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!
September/October 2022
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The Therapy Beat
The Ideation Factor: Changing How We Think about Youth Suicide
September/October 2022
Suicidal ideation among teens is overlooked, understudied, and sometimes even willfully ignored.
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"You're a Moron"
An Angry Client Embraces Therapy at 92
September/October 2022
At 92, a pugnacious client discovers that it’s never too late to change.
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Colliding into 70
Don’t Send Me a Sympathy Card!
September/October 2022
Getting old is hard. But sometimes, as the body becomes more vulnerable, the spirit becomes fiercer.
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Cultivating Positive Age Beliefs
The Impact of Ageism on Our Bodies and Minds
September/October 2022
Yale researcher Becca Levy discusses how our beliefs about aging affect our wellbeing, regardless of age.
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Debunking Myths About Aging
The Benefits of Therapy for Older Adults
September/October 2022
Some older people sink into states of depression, apathy, or agitated irritability, but emotional distress in this population is too often seen as part of an inevitable downward spiral, not a temporary and treatable state.
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Editor's Note
September/October 2022
Are therapists ready to work with an older population? In this issue, we explore the changing, sometimes challenging needs that attend aging, as well as the often unforeseen rewards of working with older people and their families.
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Laughing with Big Mama
How to Discover the Wise Guide Within You
September/October 2022
A grandmother’s indelible spirit inspires a therapy practice.
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Older Couples, New Narratives
Coming Together with Fresh Purpose
September/October 2022
Longtime couples can still experience new, relationship-testing conflicts.
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Our Aging Families
Encouraging New Conversations between Parents and Adult Children
September/October 2022
A fundamental change has been percolating in how adult children and their aging parents interact.
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Sex and the Older Couple
Helping Partners Reimagine Desire
September/October 2022
Plenty of therapists have internalized the common misconception that at a certain point in our lives, humans are no longer interested in sex and intimacy.
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The Fear of Exposure Therapy
Reframing Our Approach
September/October 2022
Our willingness to face shared existential struggles right alongside our clients can make exposure therapy not only tolerable, but transformative.
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Therapy for People Living with Dementia
Creating Possibilities for Clients and Their Families
September/October 2022
With an estimated 6.2 million Americans in need of mental health support tailored to the challenges of dementia, why are so few therapists working with them?
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Practice Tools - July/August 2022
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July/August 2022
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A Therapist Confronts Cancer
Finding a Way through the Abyss
July/August 2022
No one can prevent the horrors of cancer, but processing this particular experience of loss with a therapist who’s been through it may stave off the trauma of treatment.
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Attachment Grief
Living with the Loss of a Child
July/August 2022
For someone who has survived the death of their child, describing grief as a journey perpetuates the myth that, eventually, there’s an end point.
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Case Study
It’s Still Unfair! Struggling to Establish Equitable Relationships
July/August 2022
More than ever, clients need us to equip them with tools to transition from a hierarchical relational framework to a collaborative one, which can hold up even as outside expectations press in.
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Cultivating Empathy
Do We Really Know How Our Clients Feel?
July/August 2022
Rather than proclaiming that you understand a client’s experience, you’re far better off assuming that you don’t have a clue what they’re going through.
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Family Matters
Letting Edin Go: A Mother Makes a Wrenching Decision
July/August 2022
The weight of whether to put a child in a group home.
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