Issues & Developments

Despite the need to assess competency, some say licensing exams risk leaving good clinicians behind. Read more

More than 50 years after feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan's pivotal study on how women think about the choices in their lives, she speaks up about our... Read more

Despite an increasing diversity in race and ethnicity, the psychotherapy field is primarily filled with women—a reversal that's taken place over the last 50... Read more

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... Read more

Administrators today recognize this therapy as an effective treatment option for “at risk” families. Read more

A firsthand look at how a new virtual reality program is taking therapy to new places. Read more

Seclusion and restraint is a rare but extreme response to students deemed unruly. One parent, backed by some clinical allies, is drawing attention to its... Read more

When it comes to designating best practices for treating trauma, where does the research stand? And where is the field going? Read more

In this issue, we investigate how and why therapists around the country—and around the world—are reimagining their work. This rarely means starting from... Read more

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. Read more