Practice Tools - July/August 2022
Discover the best therapeutic tools from across the field of psychotherapy
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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In Consultation
Managing Your Waitlist: How to Tackle the Ethical Dilemmas
July/August 2022
Best practices for setting up and maintaining a client waitlist.
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Moving Through Grief
An Emotionally Focused Approach
July/August 2022
Once blocks to the organic grief process are identified and removed, how can therapists choreograph corrective emotional experiences?
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Open Book
Leaning toward the Light: Mary Pipher Turns Her Gaze Inward
July/August 2022
In her new memoir, Mary Pipher refuses to dumb down what it takes to create a rewarding life.
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Point of View
Breaking the Silence on Postpartum Stress: How Therapists Can Help
July/August 2022
Author Karen Kleiman argues that postpartum distress is normal—and should be normalized more in our society.
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Shattered by Suicide
Helping Families in the Aftermath
July/August 2022
Suicide isn’t simply the tragedy of someone taking their own life: it’s also the long, excruciating nightmare of being left behind.
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The Inheritance of Loss
A Therapist and Client Grieve Together
July/August 2022
While grief can be a familiar creature that lives inside us, we often treat it as a stranger.
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The Therapy Beat
Therapy Card Decks: A Session in the Palm of Your Hand?
July/August 2022
Are therapy card decks a clinical tool, a branding exercise, or something else entirely?
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Editor's Note
July/August 2022
Let’s face it: we live in a move-on culture. Sure, the notion of a quick fix is comforting, but as therapists know, it’s not the norm. Nowhere is this more evident than in the human experience of grief, which involves a complex and shifting set of emotions, with plenty of individual nuance. Given the DSM’s new addition of prolonged grief disorder, our authors talk candidly about their own experiences, both as therapists working with grieving clients and as people who have suffered enormous losses themselves.
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Is Prolonged Grief a Disorder?
Exploring the New DSM Diagnosis
July/August 2022
According to grief experts, does a new diagnosis in the DSM pathologize a critical component of the human experience?
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Practice Tools - May/June 2022
Two resources from Martha Straus's Cool, Calm, and Connected Workbook
May/June 2022
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Watch Your Colleagues Get Silly!
May/June 2022
We’ve put together a video reel of therapists sharing some of the playful moments they’ve had with clients...
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Case Study
When Actions Speak Louder than Words: Creating Change Through Therapeutic Rituals
May/June 2022
When our attempts to use logic and reason fail, therapeutic rituals can help clients connect to inner resources for healing.
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Family Matters
Whose Mom Is It Anyway? Learning to Love My Mother’s Caregiver
May/June 2022
A daughter’s resentment gives way to a lesson in unconditional love.
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In Consultation
Embracing a Shared Retirement Vision: Helping Older Couples Make Rewarding Choices
May/June 2022
Helping older couples create a shared vision for their retirement years.
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Open Book
De-escalating Disputes: How Therapists Can Stop Runaway Conflict
May/June 2022
Exploring “high conflict” with a bigger picture in mind.
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Point of View
Reframing Complex PTSD: Can Trauma Symptoms Be Assets?
May/June 2022
Author Stephanie Foo discusses how she and other C-PTSD survivors have learned to adapt and even thrive.
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The Myth of the Individual
Tapping into the Relational Brain
May/June 2022
Current research indicates that we’re not walled-in, freestanding individuals. Our human brains—in fact, most mammals’ brains—are built for coregulation.
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The Playful Therapist
7 Clinicians Share Their Best Strategies
May/June 2022
In this collection, master therapists share how they’ve used humor in ways that both enliven and enrich the work of therapy.
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