Psychotherapy Bulletin
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2024 Editor’s Column 59(4)
Welcome to the Fall Bulletin, SAP. My oh my, what a quarter it has been for the Electronic Communications team. For the last year, we have been working on upgrading the website with Website Design Specialist, TJ Slade. It was quite the task! The previous website was established for a decade and housed over 44,000 […]
Zoe Ross-Nash, PsyD
October 13, 2024
Out of Balance: National Institute of Mental Health Spending in 2012 and 2020
NIMH Study of Physiology, Treatment, and Psychotherapy In 2012, the NIMH spent 72% of its budget on studying physiology, i.e. the brain and genetics. In 2020, that percentage increased to 75%. Examples of studies include a 2012 study on neuronal signaling pathways during learning and their effects on memory and a 2020 study looking at […]
Al Galves, Ph.D.
September 30, 2024
A First Year Doctoral Student’s Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice in Psychotherapy: What I’m Taking with me Into Sessions as a New Therapist
As a first year doctoral student in counseling psychology, I have been immersed in scholarship surrounding the topic of how to be a successful therapist. Now, as I am approaching the start of practica, I am beginning to consider how I will integrate what I have learned into my own client sessions in a more […]
Jill D. Paquin, PhD + 1 more
September 25, 2024
What to Expect When Therapying – Understanding Change Process Expectations
When patients walk into the first therapeutic session, meet their therapist for the first time, and sit (perhaps comfortably, perhaps uncomfortably) on the sofa, we would say therapy has begun. But did the therapy actually begin even before this moment? With their thoughts about their therapy, their fears about how it will be, their expectations […]
Dana Elberg, MA + 3 more
September 25, 2024
Psychotherapy Skills and Methods CE
When: Friday, September 27, 2024 12:00-2:00pm EST What: 2 CE credits for Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Members Details: Everyone “knows” that what psychotherapists do is crucial to treatment success, but what exactly has been shown in the research evidence to work? A multiyear, inter-organizational task force of scientist-practitioners compiled, analyzed, and disseminated what […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
September 24, 2024
A Most Queer Language: The Case Against an All-Inclusive Buffet in Therapy
The vantage point of a queer-identifying therapist is uniquely translucent; I see some things in sharp resolution, while there are other things that remain opaque. How does a queer therapist affirm a queerness that endangers them as well? How does a queer therapist affirm a queerness that bemuses them? Sitting across from a patient tussling […]
Damini Yadav, MS
September 22, 2024
Measurement-Based Care and Cultural Responsiveness
While the case has been made that measurement-based care (MBC) is an evidenced-based intervention that improves outcomes and reduces dropouts (de Jong et al., 2021), and recently, that it provides a transparent collaborative process to engage clients in treatment (Boswell et al., 2023), it has not been widely considered as a methodology for cultural responsiveness. This […]
Robert J. Reese, Ph.D. + 1 more
September 21, 2024
The Psychotherapeutic Benefits of Informed Consent with Suicidal Patients
Informed consent has three dimensions: legal, ethical, and psychotherapeutic, and it is often considered a precursor to the intervention. However, there is no clear break between when the informed consent process ends and when psychotherapy begins because the informed consent process can also contain psychotherapeutic elements. By giving more attention to the psychotherapeutic aspects of […]
Samuel Knapp, Ed.D., ABPP
September 15, 2024
Dealing with Bias in Artificial Intelligence Driven Psychotherapy Tools Among Cultural and Racial Populations
Psychotherapy as a tool for treating various mental and physical health disorders has long been established as an effective treatment modality for mental disorders in Western populations, demonstrating efficacy and long-term efficiency (Kim et al., 2019). However, some authors argue that Western approaches and models in psychotherapy may not be suitable for Black Africans (Shatte […]
Caleb Onah, MS
September 13, 2024
A Brief Synopsis of The Third Part of the Suicide Prevention Triangle: Detailed Documentation
Effective patient suicide prevention is composed of three interrelated facets: assessment, intervention, and documentation. Examples of free assessments include the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS; available at http://cssrs.columbia.edu/) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) SAFE-T Suicide Assessment Five-step Evaluation and Triage (available at https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/sma09-4432.pdf). Two examples of suicide intervention programs are […]
Stewart E. Cooper, Ph.D., ABPP
September 13, 2024
Inside the Head of a Therapist
My third book on psychotherapy is Annotated Psychotherapy, A Session by Session Look at How a Therapist Thinks, published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. After a brief review of some fundamental principles, Annotated Psychotherapy employs a unique format to demonstrate how effective psychotherapy works. It uses a “script” to present session transcripts for eight different clients/patients. […]
Richard Makover, M.D.
July 26, 2024
The Means of Addressing Negative Emotions Experienced During Psychiatric Treatment: Insights from a Psychotherapeutic Process
In the socio-cultural context I find myself embedded in, reaching out for support and seeking mental health services is a courageous first step. However, an aspect of receiving support that tends to take up less space in discussions pertains to issues that many individuals may encounter during the course of psychiatric treatment itself. I have […]
Sanyukta Golaya, M.A.
July 21, 2024