What Supervision Can’t Fix: Nervous System Protection for Helpers
You can have great supervision, good boundaries, and still carry a client's pain home in your body. Dr. Christine Baker shines a light on nervous system protection for helpers.
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Implicit Bias in the Therapy Room
What implicit bias is, why it matters in clinical practice, and how the right training can help you provide more equitable care.
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What Are SOAP Notes?: A Therapist's Guide to One of the Most Essential Tools in Clinical Practice
SOAP notes are one of the most essential tools in clinical practice. Here is what every therapist needs to know — plus a free template to download.
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Two of the Biggest Misconceptions About Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT is one of the most widely practiced therapeutic approaches in the world — and one of the most misunderstood. In this article, Dr. John Ludgate addresses two of the most common misconceptions clinicians and clients alike hold about CBT.
Addiction: What's Society Got to Do with It?: Dr. Sophie Nathenson breaks down why treating addiction means thinking far beyond the individual.
"Consider the metaphor of a flooding room, where we are furiously mopping up the floor ... Addressing societal factors starts to turn off the faucet."📘 Course: The Sociology of Addiction (ID: 104554)This article, and the upcoming "The Sociology of Addiction" event,have been brought to you by Recovery.comWhen I stumble...
On the Calendar: Observances & Awareness in May: May is Mental Health Awareness Month and AAPI Heritage Month.
Every month, the calendar fills with moments worth pausing for. But here in May, for those of us working in physical and behavioral health (clinicians, therapists, counselors, and care providers of every kind), two observances this month carry particular weight: Mental Health Awareness Month and Asian American and...
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What If Anxiety Has Only One True Source?: Dr. Todd Pressman's Upcoming Series on Anxiety
What's really at the root of anxiety? Ahead of his live CE webinar on Saturday, May 2nd, Dr. Todd Pressman shares a preview of the framework that may change how we understand, and treat, fear. 📘 Course: Deconstructing Anxiety: A New Approach to Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders (ID: 104527)Q: What...
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When Addiction Impacts the Family System: Strategies for Support and Stability
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...
The Supervision Compass: Guiding Clinicians Toward Competence and Confidence
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....
Bridging the Gap in Clinical Care
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 comp...
Recognizing and Empowering Autistic Adults
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 i...
5 Self-Paced Courses to Support Recovery & Take Down Tobacco
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 adolescen...
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