Early Career Psychologists
Tailored for those just starting their journey in psychotherapy, this section offers resources, advice, and networking opportunities designed to support early career psychologists in building successful and fulfilling careers.
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Gab with the Greats
We are thrilled to announce an upcoming event that promises to be both enlightening and inspiring: Gab with the Greats virtual gathering. This event is taking place on Monday, September 18th, 2023 from 10:00 – 11:30 (ET) via Zoom! Organized by the Early Career Psychology Domain within the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (Division 29 – APA), this event includes three distinguished […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
August 20, 2023
Explanation of Social Anxiety Disorder: Neurobiological, Environmental, Developmental, and Treatment Factors
Based on the World Health Organization (2017), depression is ranked as the greatest source of disability worldwide (with 7.5% of individuals in 2015 having depression) and anxiety disorder globally ranked as the sixth causing significant impairment (among 3.4% of individuals in 2015). The National Comorbidity Survey (Kessler et al., 2005) found that social anxiety is […]
Ray Lynn Kaidbay, MSc, DTLLP + 1 more
April 22, 2023
Membership in Professional Organizations
Oftentimes, guidance around professional development can be circumscribed to a particular domain of psychology (e.g., clinical practice, research, teaching) or area of focus (e.g., internship opportunities, considerations in telehealth). We would like to broaden this guidance to talk about professional development in the context of becoming involved in professional organizations. The two authors of this […]
Nicholas R. Morrison, Ph.D. + 1 more
September 1, 2022
Mortgaging Careers
Student loan debt in the United States has been approaching crisis proportions since at least the early 2000s, but it is relatively recent that we in psychology have started to recognize the scope of the crisis in our own ranks. My research (Lantz [Wilcox] & Davis, 2017; Wilcox et al., 2021a, 2021b) has demonstrated that […]
Melanie M. Wilcox, Ph.D.
December 2, 2021
Returning to Providing Psychotherapy In-Person During a Pandemic After Providing Online Services
It has been over a year since psychologists worldwide adapted to provide clinical services during the global pandemic. As we know, clinicians, among many other professionals, rapidly learned the nuances of working with clients online. For those whose jobs demanded to continue meeting in-person, masks became essential, a needed barrier that created some protection and […]
Beatriz Palma, Ph.D.
November 15, 2021
Setting Your Fees During Covid-19 and Beyond
In this video, Tiffany McLain, LMFT, psychotherapist and entrepreneur, sits down with Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD, to talk about setting your fees during COVID-19. Tiffany addresses common stories about money that we learn in graduate school, and often our own familial, cultural, and socioeconomic upbringing. We’ll also discuss anxiety and shame around valuing our work, and […]
Daniel Jose Gaztambide, Psy.D. + 1 more
September 12, 2021
Social Justice Considerations of a Remote Psychology Admissions Process
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented new challenges on a global scale. The virus emerged in late 2019 and has continued to impact the world and United States greatly. Like many institutions, universities were required to transition to a work-from-home model. Psychology doctoral programs were impacted by this change, such that many trainees began conducting teletherapy […]
Stephanie Callan, M.S. + 2 more
June 1, 2021
Making the Most of Endings and New Beginnings
The start of a new year is often a time when we reflect on our experiences from the past year and consider our hopes for the new year. But 2020 has been a year like no other. As we start 2021, how do we make sense of the past year and how do we cope […]
Kathryn Ziemer, Ph.D.
March 1, 2021
Identifying, Addressing, and Using Therapists’ Countertransference in the Time of Pandemics
During the past few months, the world has been experiencing unique challenges. We are all facing many environmental and social stressors (many of which are not new), which will impact us in various ways. We are not only experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic, but we are also experiencing the racism pandemic (Schullman, 2020). In the words […]
Beatriz Palma, Ph.D.
August 27, 2020
Space, Boundaries, and Presence
Online psychotherapy is not new. Group therapy using videoconferencing is not new. What is new, however, is having to start online treatment for the first time in the midst of a global pandemic. Usually, before COVID-19, therapists who provided telehealth services had gone through a planned and thoughtful process of figuring out online work, including […]
Beatriz Palma, Ph.D.
August 3, 2020
Finding and Providing Mentorship in Psychotherapy Research
This manuscript provides six suggestions to support finding and developing mentorship relationships in the area of psychotherapy research. Suggestions are provided for both the mentee-to-be as well as the mentor towards the mutual goal of building a supportive, collaborative, and productive mentorship relationship.
Simon B. Goldberg, Ph.D.
March 26, 2020
Being Our Best Selves When Dealing With High-Risk Situations
Clinical situations involving high-risk factors (e.g., suicidality) can be stressful and demanding for therapists (Cramer et al., 2013; The Suicide and Self-Destructive Behaviors Study Group, 2018). Challenging client behaviors, including those related to high risk, have also been linked to burnout (Berger, 2011; Ross et al., 1989; Rupert & Morgan, 2005). Arguably, these factors can […]
Beatriz Palma, Ph.D.
March 8, 2020