Psychotherapy Bulletin
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2025 Editor’s Column 60(3)
Welcome to Summer SAP! 60 (3) has articles across the realm of psychotherapy, with topics ranging from climate change impacts on mental health, gender affirming care, and couples work. We are so grateful for the contributions of our authors. While every article is featured on the homepage, we are now brainstorming to see how our […]
Zoe Ross-Nash, PsyD
July 7, 2025
Spiritual Competencies for Psychotherapists: Research Findings and Training Opportunities
This article shares insights from “Improving Psychotherapists’ Spiritual and Religious Competencies: Evaluation of a Live Videoconferencing Training Program,”recently published in Psychotherapy (Richards et al., 2025). The study evaluated the effectiveness of a live videoconferencing training program in spiritually integrated psychotherapy (SIP) offered by ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care and Education (ACPE). Here, we summarize […]
Russell Siler Jones, ThD, LCMHCS + 1 more
July 1, 2025
Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change: A Transdiagnostic Approach – Part II
As discussed in Part I (link), mental health can be significantly impacted by climate change. Part II will describe how various mental health disorders intersect with climate change Symptoms of Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, and Climate Change Climate change can have both direct and indirect effects on symptoms of clinical depression (Ellis & Albrecht, 2017; […]
Maggie Grandsire, BS + 1 more
June 24, 2025
Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change: A Transdiagnostic Approach – Part I
Undoubtedly, climate change is causing lasting impacts on our natural environment (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2023). The climate crisis is exacerbating unprecedented extreme weather events, like Hurricane Helene in North Carolina in 2024 (Thiem & Lindsey, 2024) and the devastating Los Angeles wildfires in 2025 (Smith, 2025). It is increasing the risk of more […]
Maggie Grandsire, BS + 1 more
June 24, 2025
SAP Who’s Who: Dr. Susan Heitler
Who’s Who: Dr. Susan Heitler Can you tell me about your educational background and professional experience? I enjoyed undergraduate school at Harvard, went to Boston University for a Masters Degree in education, and then applied to NYU for a clinical psychology PhD where I almost didn’t get accepted. For the opportunity to earn my doctorate, […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
June 5, 2025
The Effects of Social Media on Self-Esteem
This paper will discuss the impact of social media on an individual’s self-esteem in different stages of development through a psychosocial lens. Psychosocial theory of human development focuses on the inner world of an individual who is trying to find a sense of self in society. “The process of growth results from the interaction of […]
Hannah Belisle, BA + 1 more
June 3, 2025
2025 APA Division 29 Program
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (Division 29) is happy to announce our 2025 APA convention program! When: August 7 to August 9. Where: Colorado Convention Center, Denver Colorado All sessions offering CE credits have been reviewed and approved by the American Psychological Association Office for Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP) and the Continuing Education […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
May 20, 2025
Increasing Accessibility to a Brief, Couple-Based Group Intervention for Veterans and their Intimate Partners: A Quality Improvement Project
Introduction Veterans experience relationship difficulties including divorce (Cohan et al., 2005; Mouritsen & Rastogi, 2013) and intimate partner violence (McGinn et al., 2017) at higher rates compared to non-Veterans. Veteran intimate relationships also present risk and protective factors for Veteran mental health service utilization (Logan et al., 2012), morbidity (Bolkan et al., 2013; Martin et […]
Narayan B. Singh, PhD, ABPP + 4 more
May 19, 2025
Resilience as a Goal in Psychotherapy
Our collective tolerance for distress seems to be declining since the pandemic. The number of Americans who currently have or are being treated for depression has increased to 17.8%, a seven-percentage point increase since 2015 and the highest percentage recorded by Gallup (Witters, 2023). An alarming 43% of adults say they feel anxious, an increase […]
Jared Scherz, PhD, MEd
May 7, 2025
Anorexia Nervosa in Chinese Women and Adolescents
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a chronic and debilitating mental illness characterized by an intense fear of weight gain, restriction of energy intake leading to significant weight loss that interrupts the developmental trajectory, and distorted body image (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). AN is considered the deadliest mental illness and is particularly difficult to treat due to […]
Dalemarie Johannesson, MS + 1 more
May 5, 2025
Sharing
Sometimes this is called “identification”. Sometimes this is called “empathy”. Sometimes this is found in years of marriage. When couples finish each other’s sentences, share the same dreams, begin to look more like each other. What happens is that we become more like the people we spend the most time with. Or even with animals. […]
Robert F. Morgan, PhD
April 28, 2025
Numbers and Flowers
David I just learned that Dr. David Frey died in 2019 at the age of 89. He was one of three faculty trying to teach statistics to psychology doctoral degree students at San Francisco’s California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) campus, the first free-standing professional school, in its earliest years, the first half of the […]
Robert F. Morgan, PhD
April 28, 2025