Psychotherapy Bulletin
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Stifled
The creation of art is known to offer a variety of benefits for physical and mental well-being, but in our rush to categorize production of art as “self-care,” we may be overlooking the most essential piece. This article explores the idea that dismissing the work of passion as one more task to check off a […]
Meli Sarkissian, BA
September 2, 2019
“Let’s Talk on the Fourth Floor”
Our idea, which three of us came up with nearly simultaneously, was born out of good intentions. We noticed that our most vulnerable students were often reluctant to go to our university’s counseling center. Our idea was to bring psychotherapy services to the place where they felt most comfortable, the floor of the student union […]
Paul Kwon, Ph.D.
September 2, 2019
Retirement Myths, Continued
In my last article I listed four retirement myths: It is easy to retire from an active professional life to a less active lifestyle; Retired people do not want to work; Retired people do not want to be paid; and Retired people have unlimited free time (Barrett, 2018). In that article I admitted to having […]
Thomas Barrett, Ph.D.
September 2, 2019
Asking for Help in Building My Private Practice
Let’s Start by Keeping It a Hundred I know it. You know it. Everybody who is a therapist knows it—we barely if at all get any training in how to build, run, and grow a private practice. For most of us we definitely did not have any courses in graduate school. Maybe when we were […]
Daniel Jose Gaztambide, Psy.D.
September 2, 2019
An MTurk Primer for Psychotherapy Researchers
In recent years, psychology researchers have begun to use online methods for participant recruitment and data collection. One of the most popular online methods is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online crowdsourcing website. To get a glance of its popularity, we recently did a Google Scholar search using the keyword “Mechanical Turk” (see Figure 1 […]
Kelley A. Tompkins, M.S. + 1 more
September 2, 2019
2019 Bulletin Editors’ Column 54(2)
Welcome to another issue of Psychotherapy Bulletin! Inside, you will find articles from a range of perspectives, including those of students, early- and mid-career professionals, and a follow-up article regarding retirement myths from Dr. Tom Barrett. We are pleased to offer three articles on this year’s Special Focus, “Self-care Across the Lifespan” (and please note […]
Lynett Henderson Metzger + 1 more
September 2, 2019
2019 President’s Column 54(2)
Hello Everyone! As you read this, over half of my presidential year will have passed and I would again like to thank you for allowing me the opportunity to serve the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (SfAP) in this role. I am very much looking forward to the APA convention and all of our […]
Nancy L. Murdock, Ph.D.
September 2, 2019
Positive Regard in Clinical Supervision
The supervision relationship is multifaceted. Watkins (2011) wrote, “Is supervision teaching? Is supervision therapy? Is supervision consultation? Is it some blend of the three?” Although the primary objectives of supervision are to foster professional growth, monitor the quality of professional services, and serve as a gatekeeper for the profession (Bernard & Goodyear, 2014), the similarities […]
Emily Carl, M.A. + 1 more
September 2, 2019
Mastering the Inner Skills of Psychotherapy
Competency in psychotherapy appears to generally follow a fairly prototypical growth curve (Callahan & Watkins, 2018). Via life experience or other learning, some incremental gains in basic competencies (e.g., caring for others) begin even before formal training (Hatcher and Lassiter, 2007). Empirical evidence suggests that formal training encapsulates a period of accelerated growth in a […]
Jennifer L. Callahan, Ph.D., ABPP
September 1, 2019
How to Set Up Your Private Pay Fees and No Show Policies with John Clarke
The Business of Private Practice The Professional Practice Committee of Division 29 recently had the opportunity to ask entrepreneur and psychotherapist John Clarke about his thoughts on setting your out-of-network fees and “no show” policies in private practice. In this video, he shares his perspective on how to balance the humanistic and business side of building a private […]
John Clarke, MA, EdS, NCC, LPCC, LPC + 1 more
August 30, 2019
Winners Announced for the 2019 Division 29 Student Poster Award Competition
As one of Michael Constantino’s past-presidential initiatives, Division 29 held its second Student Poster Award competition at the 2019 APA Convention. The Division awarded a $500 prize to the most meritorious poster in each of its two poster sessions. As a first step, a committee reviewed and rated all student-authored poster abstracts that were accepted for presentation at Convention. […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
August 19, 2019
A Doctoral Student’s Perspective on Becoming an Evidence-Based Practitioner
The evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) movement can be considered a response to the medicalization of psychology, where pharmaceuticals are at risk of becoming the primary treatment option. The “year of the brain” illuminated connections between neurobiological markers and psychological phenomena, and as Paris (2015) argues, the field of psychiatry welcomed neuropsychology as a means […]
Molly E. Kelly, M.A.
August 18, 2019