Psychotherapy Bulletin
Browse articles, research, and updates from the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy.
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Developing Inner Confidence While in Training
On an unremarkable day, I walked out to the waiting room to meet a new client for an intake session. Right away, I saw that Eileen was pretty much a carbon copy of me. Same height, hair color, eye color, and even body type. During our interview, I realized that beyond our physical similarities, Eileen and […]
Victoria Schlaudt, M.S. + 1 more
April 24, 2016
Advice on Predatory Journals and Publishers – for APA Division listservs
Many publishers and Editors send targeted emails to invite authors to submit a manuscript to their journals. Such emails are common. Hiding among them may be journals and publishers whose credentials are questionable. Such journals and publishers are referred to as ‘predatory’. They send spam emails to potential authors, solicit submissions with misleading promises, and […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
April 11, 2016
Are You Any Good…as a Therapist?
Introduction Are you any good as a therapist? Overall, therapists seem to be quite a confident group. A study by Walfish, McAllister, O’Donnell, and Lambert (2012) asked 129 therapists to compare their psychotherapy results to those of their peers. They found that 25% of the therapists estimated that their results were in the upper 10% […]
S. (Jeb) Brown, Ph.D. + 2 more
April 10, 2016
2017 Candidates Statement
President-Elect Michael J. Constantino, Ph.D. I, Michael Constantino, am honored to be nominated for President-Elect of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. My engagement in Division 29 began on the Student Development Committee, and I have subsequently served as Chair of the Continuing Education Committee, Early Career Domain Representative to the Board, Chair of […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
March 31, 2016
Take the Informed Consent Quiz
Informed consent is an essential component of every psychotherapy relationship. When conducted effectively it lays the foundation for the psychotherapy relationship and process to come. The informed consent process ensures that clients possess the information necessary to make an informed decision about participation in the services being offered. As Handelsman (2001) articulates, we must provide […]
Jeffrey E. Barnett, Psy.D., ABPP + 1 more
March 27, 2016
Humility
“The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.” Ed Parker (1983) In their series of articles, Tracey and colleagues (Tracey, Wampold, Goodyear, & Lichtenberg, 2015; Tracey, Wampold, Lichtenberg, & Goodyear, 2014) explore barriers psychotherapists face in developing expertise. Specifically, Tracey et al. (2014, 2015) noted that psychotherapists often (a) […]
Joshua N. Hook, Ph.D. + 3 more
March 20, 2016
Therapist Characteristics that Impact Outcome
Ample research suggests that therapists differ in their level of effectiveness (Baldwin & Imel, 2012; Blow et al., 2007; Wampold, 2001). Even more striking is that therapist effects appear to be larger than treatment effects (e.g., Lindgren et al., 2010). Moreover, therapist training, experience, and theoretical orientation do not appear to explain the majority of […]
Jenelle Slavin-Mulford, Ph.D.
March 13, 2016
Help-Seeking Among Airmen in Distressed Relationships
Abstract Although a substantial proportion of service members returning from a combat deployment report individual emotional and behavioral disorders as well as intimate relationship difficulties, previous studies indicate that only a minority actually seek mental health services. Little is known about factors that predict help-seeking in this population. We first review key findings from the […]
Douglas K. Snyder + 5 more
March 6, 2016
Top 10 Things Learned After Two Decades of Tracking Client Treatment Progress
Introduction In the course of a program of research aimed at preventing treatment failure our research group at Brigham Young University has had the opportunity to track the session-by-session treatment progress of clients undergoing psychotherapy. These clients have received treatment in a wide variety of clinics and in private practice as well as inpatient care. […]
Michael J. Lambert, Ph.D.
February 14, 2016
Digital Weight Management
Obesity is a nationwide epidemic that is measured by a person’s body mass index (BMI), or weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared (Devlin, Yanovski, & Wilson, 2000; Shugart, 2013). In 2012, two-thirds of American adults were considered to be overweight or obese (Mitchell, Garcia, de Zwaan, & Horbach, 2012), and it is […]
Sara Assar, M.A. + 2 more
February 7, 2016
Training Graduate Students to Work with Sexual Minority Clients
In the last 20 to 30 years, we have come a long way when it comes to practicing with sexual minority clients (King, Semlyn, Killaspy, Nazareth, & Osborn, 2007). Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) identities are affirmed and celebrated rather than pathologized, and affirmative psychotherapy is now the preferred practice approach for working with this […]
Edward J. Alessi, Ph.D
January 31, 2016
A New Year for Enhancing Old Commitments
By the time you read this, the New Year will be three months old and we will have met for our first semi-annual business meeting. I want to wish you health and wealth, however you define them. As your President, I want to make this year one in which you feel more personally and professionally […]
Armand R. Cerbone, Ph.D., ABPP
January 25, 2016