The phone rings at 2:13 a.m. Maria doesn’t need to check the caller ID—she already knows. Her adult son’s voice is unsteady, alternating between urgency and apology, asking for help, “just this one more time.” By morning, Maria will replay the conversation, questioning every response: Did I help, or did I make it easie...
When you think back to your experiences with previous supervisors, what comes to mind? Are you reminded of a time when you received support, encouragement and feedback? Or, are you reminded of criticism, unreasonable expectations, and lack of guidance? Supervision experiences in the mental health field can vastly vary....
There’s a gap at the center of clinical training that most of us don’t discover until we’re standing right in front of it.As therapists, we learn CBT, psychodynamic theory, trauma-informed frameworks and numerous other modalities. What we receive far less training in is one of the most clinically complex moments we’ll...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in communication, social interaction, sensory processing, and patterns of thinking and behavior (American Psychiatric Association, 2022). The word “spectrum” highlights the diversity of presentations in that each individual’s...
This upcoming April, join the movement to help fight tobacco addiction and support the national day of action: Take Down Tobacco Day (formerly known as "Kick Butts Day"). From classrooms to office cubicles, playgrounds to parking lots, nicotine addiction impacts a wide variety of age groups. And many, such as adol...
While CBT is now well established as treatment for many disorders and has been widely disseminated, Positive Psychology and, in particular, how this approach can be helpful with psychological problems is less familiar to many therapists. The therapy approach which has been labelled Positive Psychotherapy (Rashid and Se...
Cognitive Behavior Therapy first emerged in the late 1970s and in 1980s as a new treatment approach for depression (Beck et al 1979) and anxiety (Beck et al 1985). This was an exciting advent of a highly structure, collaborative and short-term treatment (12-16 sessions) for these disorders and an impressive literature...
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